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Originally Posted by JessSigKap
I think the reason many campuses switch to a deferred recruitment is because they've had problems with retention and grades. I think a high school GPA is meaningless. Every single potential member is going to have a good enough high school GPA to have been admitted to their university. How many potential members are weeded out just because of grades?
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HS GPA is absolutely meaningless. I agree with you there.
Where I don't agree with you is the underlying assumption that the greek system actually hurts new members' GPAs at a disproportionate rate.
If that is statistically true, it would seem to me that creating an incentive (e.g., allowing groups which have good overall grades for the previous year's class to rush in the fall) would help to mitigate if not reverse that statistic.
While I'd hate to see our pledge programs just become glorified study halls, I wouldn't mind seeing a little more emphasis placed on academics throughout the system.
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