GPA Question *tricky*

[AChiOhSnap]

This isn't really directed at Miss BooperDoo since she's apparently not coming back, but I would like to let this thread serve as an example to PNMs looking for recruitment advice on GreekChat.

Plenty of PNMs post here asking for our advice on anything ranging from GPA requirements, to clothes, to whatever. When you offer up more information than necessary and we pick up on something that could potentially be extremely detrimental to your recruitment, we're going to tell you.

I'm sure that, in some cases, the advice and opinions have ended up not mattering and just came across as bitchy. In some other cases, PNMs have come to realize that the advice is correct and there's a problem that needs to be addressed.

When you put your personal information out there, people on GC can and will offer up their advice and opinions on your situation. Some of it, frankly, you might not like. I wouldn't necessarily say it's because people on GC have a "high school mentality" -- it's because GC isn't Smiley Happy Pony Rainbow Land. Whether or not that the fact we offer unsolicited advice and opinions is right or wrong is really irrelevant. If you don't want to hear what people have to say -- and they're not going to sugar coat it -- then don't post on GC.

I mean, for Chrissake, it's the internet. If you want rah-rah you go girl encouragement, talk to your mom.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

GC isn't Smiley Happy Pony Rainbow Land. Whether or not that the fact we offer unsolicited advice and opinions is right or wrong is really irrelevant. If you don't want to hear what people have to say -- and they're not going to sugar coat it -- then don't post on GC.

I mean, for Chrissake, it's the internet. If you want rah-rah you go girl encouragement, talk to your mom.

This is why I love you.

But really, we like to give PNMs realistic advice based on the info they povide. If we told EVERY girl who came here (NO MATTER WHAT HER SITUATION) stuff like "OMG you should SO go for it! You'll totally get a bid." when it wasn't neccessarily true, we'd be doing them a disservice. Girls would be like "Why didn't they tell me that (for example) being a junior would make it almost impossible for me to get a bid?" We're not mean, just honest.