I have a 2.45 GPA. The requirement is 2.5. Will they let me in?

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by blondebabe8

im so close! i had a bad semester with personal fam problems and it came down i usually have good grades though and i will get it up easily. its just that the requirement is 2.5. can they make any exceptions??? i mean im .05 away! and next semester is my last chance to join and the girls from my fave sorority really want to give me a bid!

Originally Posted by blondebabe8

id no doubt be able to handle it though! if i wwent to the director of greek life and talked to her do yyou think she could bend it a little .05 awayyyyyy come on

1. The 2.5 would be a minimum GPA. Having a 2.5 doesn't guarantee anything. (Are there really NPC sororities that have national minimum GPAs quite that low?)

2. "Usually good grades" do not get so dramatically affected by one poor semester. If next semester is your "last chance to join," you've been around long enough to earn that crummy cumulative GPA.

3. You'd be better served by spending time in a remedial English courses rather than a sorority.

4. If you know the girls in your "fave sorority" well enough for them to tell you they want to give you a bid, certainly you could ask them if they could make an exception for your GPA rather than asking a bunch of strangers on the intarwebz.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

1. The 2.5 would be a minimum GPA. Having a 2.5 doesn't guarantee anything. (Are there really NPC sororities that have national minimum GPAs quite that low?)
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Yes. I can't speak for any others, but Alpha Sigma Tau's is 2.5. Actually, up until a few years ago, it was 2.3. As far asi know, AST was the first NPC to require a minimum GPA, so a raise in the minimum was definitely needed. I've heard there has been discussion about raising it further. Not sure the last time (before 2008) that it was increased.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Yes. I can't speak for any others, but Alpha Sigma Tau's is 2.5. Actually, up until a few years ago, it was 2.3. As far asi know, AST was the first NPC to require a minimum GPA, so a raise in the minimum was definitely needed. I've heard there has been discussion about raising it further. Not sure the last time (before 2008) that it was increased.

Is that a minimum for new members, for initiation or for maintaining membership? It just seems awfully low for a recruitment minimum GPA.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by blondebabe8

you all are so mean! wow haha never using this site again sheesh. harsh people.

Originally Posted by blondebabe8

and i meant its my last chance bc itll be fall of soph year. i dont want to pledge with the freshman...i want to pledge with girls my age.

Good luck with that.

[blondebabe8]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Is that a minimum for new members, for initiation or for maintaining membership? It just seems awfully low for a recruitment minimum GPA.

its the requirement just to get in. i know girls in the sorority that told me they have even lower than that

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by blondebabe8

its the requirement just to get in. i know girls in the sorority that told me they have even lower than that

She wasn't asking you about your situation.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Is that a minimum for new members, for initiation or for maintaining membership? It just seems awfully low for a recruitment minimum GPA.

It encompasses everything, recruitment included (unless something was changed at the 2010 convention that I'm unaware of). However, what each chapter requires could obviously be higher.