Alabama Recruitment

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Bamamomma90- So sorry that your daughter did not have a good experience. My daughter is in a sorority at Alabama. I spent many hours on the phone with her in tears this week. This was her first rush on the other side and it broke her heart to like girls and then see them cut. She called me Sun. morning at 3AM to tell me she had come to the realization that she wants to be a Rho Chi next year so she can comfort the PNM's.
I know of several sororities who have national GPA minimums; absolutely no exceptions. There have been many post on Greek Chat that if you have below a 3.0 you should work on your grades and rush after the pnm brings up the grade point average. Someone who is very active in nationals explained it to me that it was a disservice to the girl who needed to dedicate more time to studying to be pulled away by the mandatory pledge activates. That it could put the PNM at risk of being placed on probation by both the university and the sorority.
There were also several cases that I heard of this year where the Pan-Hellenic GPA did not reflect the Sr. year grades. The transcript GPA for these PNM reflected the grades of the semesters from the time the PNM applied to the college. It is important to get a rec and transcript to every chapter at competitive SEC schools.

Alabama does have an upperclassmen quota. I think I saw a chapter that had 8. She should try in again next year after she gets to know some girls in her dorm. It sounds like she would be an asset to any chapter.

[OleMissGlitter]

I posted this in another Alabama Recruitment forum, but one of my rec girls went Pi Beta Phi!

I found out another PNM (didn't write her a rec be/c she had two already) dropped out of recruitment. She isn't bitter (she was a double legacy to one house and a legacy to another house). Her older sister and her mom had told her going into recruitment that because she had a lower GPA (around a 3.1) she might be released. So she did have a full pref party list but she felt that maybe it wasn't meant for her. But she's not bitter and her mother is optimistic for her. Two of her suitemates didn't rush (she's in a 4 person room) so she has friends to hang out with who aren't Greek. She is happy for her friends who did get bids. So, I'm glad she is at least okay and not totally devasted. When I spoke to her mom she told me that she was staying positive.