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Originally Posted by PKSlars1451
My school has a minimum of a 2.5 for freshmen pledging, and 2.25 for upper classmen. I'm IFC president and I'm thinking about trying to raise our lower limit. Our fraternities (and sororities) have attracted some pretty stupid people recently which reflects poorly on our whole Greek community.
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You may want to look at peer institutions and your own campus to see what the all greek average, and all men averages are, and have each representative discuss it with his I/HQ to see if they have goals of their own to create a new average.
Also consider raising it incrementally (two semesters maybe or start of a school year/rush period) so it doesn't affect the current potential members. Sure you don't want people flunking out and screwing up your GPA, but it could really tick some people off who were interested and were going to sign up and the rule changed overnight. This gives them a semester or so to work hard if they really want it, and those who still aren't cutting the mustard can work on their academic issues.
Lastly, consider it a group (IFC) effort and think of ways to increase academic success. Partner with study skill campus resources, faculty dinners, speakers, and chapters can do their own thing, but make it an IFC/Panhellenic/Greek thing and it can really help your rep when someone does something that makes us all look bad.