Yet another recruitment disappointment...

[kddani]

If you go to a campus with more than say 3 or 4 chapters, and you were cut from every single house on the first day - it was 95% likely that it was solely because of your grades.

[Zillini]

Originally Posted by bookworm84

Is your GPA low? yes,but I plan on bringing it up

Everybody plans on bringing up their GPA. Not everybody does.

Originally Posted by kddani

If you go to a campus with more than say 3 or 4 chapters, and you were cut from every single house on the first day - it was 95% likely that it was solely because of your grades.

This.

[bookworm84]

[QUOTE=Zillini;1859881]Everybody plans on bringing up their GPA. Not everybody does.


I will bring my GPA and I making sure I work extra hard to get that GPA up so I can go through formal recruitment for the winter quarter.I don't need assumptions from people who know nothing about me and my low GPA.If people on this forum want to throw "mud" at me,then that will get you nowhere and you will end up making yourself look bad.Let's see how you feel then.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by bookworm84

I will bring my GPA and I making sure I work extra hard to get that GPA up so I can go through formal recruitment for the winter quarter.I don't need assumptions from people who know nothing about me and my low GPA.If people on this forum want to throw "mud" at me,then that will get you nowhere and you will end up making yourself look bad.Let's see how you feel then.

I really don't think anyone's "throwing mud" at you.

Bottom line, if your GPA does not meet the lowest standard of the individual chapters you will be cut. The chapters don't even have a choice in this matter. I could love Susie PNM and wish my parents had adopted her as a child so we would have been sisters forever but if she doesn't make that minimum GPA, there's not a darned thing I can do to change that and bid her. We don't know if that's what happened, but at this point it would be our best guess.

[Zillini]

Originally Posted by bookworm84

I will bring my GPA and I making sure I work extra hard to get that GPA up so I can go through formal recruitment for the winter quarter.I don't need assumptions from people who know nothing about me and my low GPA.If people on this forum want to throw "mud" at me,then that will get you nowhere and you will end up making yourself look bad.Let's see how you feel then.

No one was "throwing mud", certainly not me. I should have been more specific. Every student, including those without the additional challenges you face, wants to bring up their GPA and not all are successful in doing so. Therefore sororities must base their decisions on what a PNM's GPA currently is, not what the PNM plans/hopes it will be because that may never happen. Everyone here was simply trying to offer the most common explanation of why any PNM gets cut heavily early in the process.

As for your having Aspergers, all I can offer is this. You said earlier that you did not have any Recs which could have offered some insight to the members, nor did you have friends within the Chapters that could have explained. I have to wonder if the Chapter members knew that you have Aspergers and if they did, did they understand what all that entails? It's certainly not something that could be easily explained in the very brief amount of time of a Recruitment party. I confess I know very little about Aspergers and I have been surrounded by children with a variety of special needs and challenges for 12 years due to my daughter. I pressume the collegians you encountered knew even less than me.

I will stop here and will leave the advice to others who are more educated in this matter.

[Big Mama]

hiiiii how are you?????????????????

Originally Posted by Zillini

No one was "throwing mud", certainly not me. I should have been more specific. Every student, including those without the additional challenges you face, wants to bring up their GPA and not all are successful in doing so. Therefore sororities must base their decisions on what a PNM's GPA currently is, not what the PNM plans/hopes it will be because that may never happen. Everyone here was simply trying to offer the most common explanation of why any PNM gets cut heavily early in the process.

As for your having Aspergers, all I can offer is this. You said earlier that you did not have any Recs which could have offered some insight to the members, nor did you have friends within the Chapters that could have explained. I have to wonder if the Chapter members knew that you have Aspergers and if they did, did they understand what all that entails? It's certainly not something that could be easily explained in the very brief amount of time of a Recruitment party. I confess I know very little about Aspergers and I have been surrounded by children with a variety of special needs and challenges for 12 years due to my daughter. I pressume the collegians you encountered knew even less than me.

I will stop here and will leave the advice to others who are more educated in this matter.