Question about grades for recruitment

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Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Okay, I am confused.

First, you blamed a medical situation (which usually indicates it was out of your control) for last semester's poor grades, then stated that you've "learned from your mistakes" and fixed things. I don't quite understand that, but anyway, you're saying that the reason doesn't exist anymore.

But then last month, you said that your grades were low the first time you went through recruitment the year prior.

So what's the story? Was it just the last semester and due to a (temporary) medical issue that you've now "fixed"? (Not asking you to answer here, but to think about that) I think if you're going to talk about medical issues, you need to be prepared for some concerns (even if they don't say them out loud), only because you thought it was important enough to bring up during recruitment, and people are curious.

I think that it's a lot of information to share during the likely brief amount of time you'll get with any one person during the first round, and like others said, there's a good chance people might already know your GPA. But if not, and you feel the need to prepare everyone, people will be curious as to how you're going to do better academically with the added stress/work/time required to be a New Member/Member.

Because she "knows" now that a "required" upperclassman quota and knowing girls will trump her continuing lackluster GPA? Her school is different from what Greekchat says and she knows this even though she isn't Greek.

Originally Posted by potential_greek

I was told, in regards to the recruitment at my school, that the upperclassmen quota is the minimum required number of upperclassmen that each sorority has to take. Is this accurate? Do they have to take a certain number of upperclassmen?
I looked through some older threads that said this kind of quota does not mean they have to take upperclassmen, so I am rather confused.
Thank you for your responses!

Originally Posted by potential_greek

Just wanted to update my information about this. I've talked to some friends who are in sororities and they've said the school makes each sorority take a certain number of upperclassmen. I know this is apparently not normal of most schools. Are there many schools that do this?

Originally Posted by potential_greek

I do understand that, and I am not trying to assume anything. At my campus it's very very rare for anyone, including upperclassmen, to be released completely, though. I guess it does sound a little arrogant to say that, though, so please don't take it that way. I'm sorry if I've seemed disrespectful in any way, I genuinely do not mean to :/

Originally Posted by potential_greek

I'm not completely sure why you believe I am worrying about it just by stating what I've heard. I know what to expect and where I'll probably end up so I'm completely fine with everything. I'm not relying on an upperclassmen quota to get a bid, either, so I really hope I did not come across that way haha. I just thought I'd update this since the information I got is inconsistent with most of the info about it on this site. I didn't even ask my friends about it, they just mentioned having to take a certain number of upperclassmen.
But thank you for your responses. I appreciate the advice since I'm fairly new to the whole process