grade question

bette007 · #1 06-28-2007, 10:42 PM

I had a similar question about high school gpa requirements for incoming freshmen during recruitment. Do chapters make exceptions if you are below the minimum gpa requirement.
My daughter will be attending University of North Texas and wants to rush but I am afraid her gpa is too low. On her hs transcript, gpa is listed at 81.75 but she held several leadership postions and was editor in chief of her high school newspaper. All of the chapter websites I have visited for her school seem to require a 3.0 HS gpa requirement. She also has a very outgoing and personable personality attributed to her active theatre background, and has a best friend that is an active member of the sorority she wants to receive a bid from. Will any of this make a difference or is she wasting her time and needs to focus on grades. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

_Lisa_ · #2 06-29-2007, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bette007

I had a similar question about high school gpa requirements for incoming freshmen during recruitment. Do chapters make exceptions if you are below the minimum gpa requirement.
My daughter will be attending University of North Texas and wants to rush but I am afraid her gpa is too low. On her hs transcript, gpa is listed at 81.75 but she held several leadership postions and was editor in chief of her high school newspaper. All of the chapter websites I have visited for her school seem to require a 3.0 HS gpa requirement. She also has a very outgoing and personable personality attributed to her active theatre background, and has a best friend that is an active member of the sorority she wants to receive a bid from. Will any of this make a difference or is she wasting her time and needs to focus on grades. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm surprised you even feel the need to ask. Your daughter needs to focus on grades. Period.

AlphaFrog · #3 06-29-2007, 08:41 AM

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I'm surprised you even feel the need to ask. Your daughter needs to focus on grades. Period.

Agreed.

But in answer to the question...some sororities can take what they call "grade risks", but others cannot. Note: Can =/= will.

dgdramadawg · #4 06-29-2007, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Agreed.

But in answer to the question...some sororities can take what they call "grade risks", but others cannot. Note: Can =/= will.

When people in my chapter referred to "grade risks," we talked about people who were at or just above the minimum, not below.

This may be because by the time I was on the chapter side of recruitment, it was so rare to attend UGA with below our national minimum that we never had to think about it.

AChiOhSnap · #5 06-29-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bette007

I had a similar question about high school gpa requirements for incoming freshmen during recruitment. Do chapters make exceptions if you are below the minimum gpa requirement.

Absolutely not. There's no such thing as a grade exception with NPC sororities. If your daughter is below the GPA req, she will not be able to receive a bid. And if, for some crazy reason there was a mistake and she received a bid anyway, her membership would be revoked immediately upon someone finding out her real GPA.

AlphaFrog · #6 06-29-2007, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

Absolutely not. There's no such thing as a grade exception with NPC sororities. If your daughter is below the GPA req, she will not be able to receive a bid. And if, for some crazy reason there was a mistake and she received a bid anyway, her membership would be revoked immediately upon someone finding out her real GPA.

I assumed she was talking about chapter requirements. You are not allowed to bid anyone with a lower GPA then the national standard, but if your chapter requires a 3.5, and your national only requires a 2.3, some chapters can allow someone with a 3.1 a bid. Once again, can =/= will.

AChiOhSnap · #7 06-29-2007, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I assumed she was talking about chapter requirements. You are not allowed to bid anyone with a lower GPA then the national standard, but if your chapter requires a 3.5, and your national only requires a 2.3, some chapters can allow someone with a 3.1 a bid. Once again, can =/= will.

Oh good point, that could be a potentially different situation. I thought she was referring to the college's recruitment GPA cutoff since all the sororities had the same GPA req. In the case of nat'l or school Greek GPA requirements, a PNM's membership would likely be revoked if she were revealed to be under the required GPA.

I'm also confused as to the 81.75 grade point... is this a different system of GPA calculation or was this a typo?

AlphaFrog · #8 06-29-2007, 01:34 PM

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I'm also confused as to the 81.75 grade point... is this a different system of GPA calculation or was this a typo?

I took it to mean 81.75 on a 100 point scale...like they used to grade tests in highschool. I guess that would be a C...which would translate to a 2.0.

LegallyBrunette · #9 06-29-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I took it to mean 81.75 on a 100 point scale...like they used to grade tests in highschool. I guess that would be a C...which would translate to a 2.0.

I definitely could be wrong, but doesn't an 81.75 average on a 100 point scale translate to a 3.27 GPA on the standard 4.0 scale, thereby making her eligible for recruitment?

AlphaFrog · #10 06-29-2007, 01:59 PM

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I definitely could be wrong, but doesn't an 81.75 average on a 100 point scale translate to a 3.27 GPA on the standard 4.0 scale, thereby making her eligible for recruitment?

You're probably right. I was just guessing.

Someone call Drolefille in here...she's good at that kind of stuff.

AChiOhSnap · #11 06-29-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by LegallyBrunette

I definitely could be wrong, but doesn't an 81.75 average on a 100 point scale translate to a 3.27 GPA on the standard 4.0 scale, thereby making her eligible for recruitment?

If we're talking about 81.75 points on a scale of 100 = 81.75%, which would denote a solid C average -- at least how my high school figured it -- and a C = a 2.0. A 2.0 would likely be far too low for any school/chapter/national requirement.

I'm assuming you weren't using percentages so how did you figure 3.27?