Reducing barriers to GLO membership

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by carnation

Those of us who have been in Greek life for a long time have a ton of horror stories, and mostly because groups took girls they didn't check out first.

AMEN.
If the Greek system dies, another system will take its place by another name: Study group, book club, friendship circle, prayer caucus, whatever.
It's just human nature.

[LouisaMay]

A few of the chapters I work with directly have said that IF our organization removed nationally defined GPA minimums (hasn't happened yet), they would simply keep a GPA minimum that is comparable to the other sororities at their universities. Even now, many of those GPA requirements are higher than what ASA has set.

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone, but I see my collegiate sisters striving for excellence. I was just reviewing end-of-year reports today for one of my chapters, and I see far more success than failure! They aren't going to suddenly stop caring because a number provided by a national office was removed. Many of them aren't using that number anyway!

[NoID]

Originally Posted by LouisaMay

A few of the chapters I work with directly have said that IF our organization removed nationally defined GPA minimums (hasn't happened yet), they would simply keep a GPA minimum that is comparable to the other sororities at their universities. Even now, many of those GPA requirements are higher than what ASA has set.

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone, but I see my collegiate sisters striving for excellence. I was just reviewing end-of-year reports today for one of my chapters, and I see far more success than failure! They aren't going to suddenly stop caring because a number provided by a national office was removed. Many of them aren't using that number anyway!

I agree. That would happen initially.

What about 10 years from now; when grades are no longer considered a barrier. Or when minimums are removed, so gradually more and more grade risks are chosen?

[carnation]

I would be the alum who questioned a PNM why she was in college anyway if she brought a 1.75 out of high school into recruitment. Who would want a woman who doesn't know how to study? How did she even get into college? Sounds like a dream sister!

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by carnation

I would be the alum who questioned a PNM why she was in college anyway if she brought a 1.75 out of high school into recruitment. Who would want a woman who doesn't know how to study? How did she even get into college? Sounds like a dream sister!

Ditto

[honeychile]

For decades, the recommendation system helped sift through PNMs with bad grades, questionable reputations, and poor scholarship. Do we really need to disable this on a large scale?

[*winter*]

Originally Posted by carnation

I would be the alum who questioned a PNM why she was in college anyway if she brought a 1.75 out of high school into recruitment. Who would want a woman who doesn't know how to study? How did she even get into college? Sounds like a dream sister!

When I was in ROTC, we had a cadet who badly wanted to contract but wasn’t able to due to grades. At first I felt kind of bad…until I found out the minimum was a 2.0! And she didn’t have a difficult major or some extenuating circumstances. If your GPA is in the 1s, additional activities are not a good idea!

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by *winter*

When I was in ROTC, we had a cadet who badly wanted to contract but wasn’t able to due to grades. At first I felt kind of bad…until I found out the minimum was a 2.0! And she didn’t have a difficult major or some extenuating circumstances. If your GPA is in the 1s, additional activities are not a good idea!

As someone said, if your GPA is something like that, you should be pledging the library instead of a greek org.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by NoID

I agree. That would happen initially.

What about 10 years from now; when grades are no longer considered a barrier. Or when minimums are removed, so gradually more and more grade risks are chosen?

Or when Edie who knows all the sisters has a 2.4 and the minimum is 2.5. “Well for Edie? She’s practically a sister already! We’ll waive it, just this once. Nationals will be ok with it.”

Next rush: “Brenda won’t accept our bid if we don’t take Donna and Kelly too and we REALLY want Brenda. Their grades aren’t that big of a deal.”

It’s a slippery slope.

[carnation]

So much of this is a slippery slope!