A not all that "retro", retro thread :)

[maximus406]

We were always excited to have women in Formal Recruitment who might have considered COB the spring before. But we also always cut for grades after Open and I always hated cutting women that everybody liked and was otherwise a great PNM. You never know where a chapter is with grades, my chapter was really trying to raise our cumulative GPA so we were cutting harder for grades than usual for several years.

Random hijack on grades, sorry. Please continue!

[Kaydee_cutie]

Grades were a HUGE issue, and being naive to it at the time, I had no idea.

I was the absolute last grade risk my chapter has taken, and apparently I caused a lot of drama in their MSS that year, because the advisors didn't want me, but the girls did...

My chapter now drops all grade risks after open house to not get their hopes up, but other chapters don't...which I think is horrible.

This past year, fall 2006, I was a rho gamma and one of my girls was carried by two chapters all the way to pref, where she was quickly dropped because of grades. I tried to keep contacting her about COB and what not, but she was so turned off by her experience of being drug along that I don't think she will ever join a chapter

I know that chapters keep girls they know they won't take to make their parties look full, etc, but in the long run it is just hurtful to the PNMs they are "playing" with.

Sorry, this issue raises so much controversy in my chapter now, I just needed to comment on it

I'll post more later, I promise

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by maximus406

We were always excited to have women in Formal Recruitment who might have considered COB the spring before. But we also always cut for grades after Open and I always hated cutting women that everybody liked and was otherwise a great PNM. You never know where a chapter is with grades, my chapter was really trying to raise our cumulative GPA so we were cutting harder for grades than usual for several years.

Random hijack on grades, sorry. Please continue!

We had one of those random situations where we cut for grades, one grade risk who was cut, and also not particularly liked, was computer glitched back into our parties. Not sure how. After that everyone loved her (perhaps she'd been dropped from her sorority of choice for grades and was nicer now? I have no idea) so she wasn't cut for grades again even though she should have been.

Weird situation. But you're right, sometimes you cut harder for grades in an attempt to bring your average up, but at the same time you can't always afford to cut that number of girls!