Ole Miss drops GPA exceptions for rush

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by WaterChild

I think that there's nothing wrong with this at all.

If someone has a learning disability, they should have received the extra attention/time needed to earn above a 2.5 gpa in HIGH SCHOOL. They shouldn't expect even more special attention in college. Sure, some high schools don't have the resources to provide extra attention to help disabled students, but I think that most girls rushing at Ole Miss come from a different background than that. A 2.5 gpa is very low for high school. Many of you keep talking about how students should receive benefits and extra test time in college, and you make it seem like you don't realize that these students would have gotten the extra help in high school.

Yes.

Extended test time, etc. was there in high school. Which is why it is there in college (the one I went to anyway).

But now I have another question: why in the world would anyone base anything in college (beyond admission to the college/university/program/magjor/whatever) base anything on something from high school?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

But now I have another question: why in the world would anyone base anything in college (beyond admission to the college/university/program/major/whatever) on something from high school?

This is one of the main reasons I like deferred rush.

Sometimes your performance in high school (good or bad) has NO relation to how you perform in college. Not most of the time, but sometimes.

Maybe Susie has a 4.0 because her parents did all her homework for her. When she gets to college, pledges, has to do her own work and promptly flunks out - taking your rituals and letters with her. (Unless she's pledging Chi Omega.)

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

But now I have another question: why in the world would anyone base anything in college (beyond admission to the college/university/program/magjor/whatever) base anything on something from high school?

In my opinion, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

What an individual has done (or not done) in the first 18 years of life is significant.