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Old 06-09-2013, 01:08 PM
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I read an article today that reminded me of this thread. It's 22 maps that show the deepest linguistic conflicts in America.
haha I read that too, and immediately thought of this GC thread!
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Old 06-09-2013, 01:26 PM
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Just a reminder that we will be meeting on Sunday, June 9, at 1:30pm at the Newk's on University Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi. The new campus Panhellenic Advisor will be in attendance so we hope you can make it!

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Old 06-10-2013, 10:43 AM
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The requirement is 3.0 or higher...does anyone know what higher is???
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It's up to the individual Chapter and its Headquarters to determine the GPA requirements for that Chapter. This is part of Membership Selection and is considered to be confidential if not secret ritual by the Chapters.
Under the Greek Affairs web site is a FAQ that has the maximum disclosed information regarding grades: http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umgreeks/npcfaqs

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Old 06-10-2013, 11:30 AM
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Colony Recruitment information!

Really I thought someone would have been asking about this since Ole Miss has not had a colony since 1978, but maybe someone just needs to break the ice. Here below are some places you can look for information:

1) On the very first post in this thread you can find the Alpha Delta Pi Web Site for the colony.

2) Check these previous colony threads on Greekchat when you can:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=96791
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=93202

3) And if you want more, you put this into your browser/search engine: "greekchat.com" colony colonization

4) And last, but not least, a recruitment story thread by a PNM about a recent Alpha Delta Pi Colony Recruitment: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=131914
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Old 06-10-2013, 06:38 PM
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MP - do they not take SATs? (they = the Ole Miss admissions office)

And the red/yellow/green zone thing re grades is AWESOME.
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Old 06-10-2013, 06:58 PM
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MP - do they not take SATs? (they = the Ole Miss admissions office)

And the red/yellow/green zone thing re grades is AWESOME.
Ole Miss thought it was cute that MP had taken the SAT but wanted her ACT scores. They haven't changed a thing.

Zone thing is cool, except they don't tell you what will make a Chapter take someone in the yellow zone as a new member, and so it can lead to a Yellow Zone PNM that needs to go through formal recruitment her Sophomore year to go through as a Freshman.

Does anyone recall the Ole Miss PNM mom who railed against the cruel sororities and more cruel Panhellenic that dropped her Yellow Zone GPA daughter after Philanthropy? It was because the Zone system gave the Mother and Daughter a sense of deniability about the less than 3.0 GPA.

It's that tension between Panhellenic inclusiveness (everyone will get a trophy) and the Chapters needing to have quality PNMs through their own Membership Selection. Just look at the Freshman Class Overall GPA in the graph posted (comes from the Ole Miss web site.) It kind of paints a picture doesn't it?
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Old 06-10-2013, 07:17 PM
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Ole Miss thought it was cute that MP had taken the SAT but wanted her ACT scores. They haven't changed a thing.
Interesting. I applied to 10 (I think, it's been a few years) colleges and not a one asked for ACT. I never even took it. Over here people rarely took it. It was rumored that those who took the ACT either were going to Harvard (or some special school) or did really poorly on the SAT. I wonder if it's an area difference or what. I applied all over the country, not just West coast schools.
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Old 06-10-2013, 07:35 PM
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Interesting. I applied to 10 (I think, it's been a few years) colleges and not a one asked for ACT. I never even took it. Over here people rarely took it. It was rumored that those who took the ACT either were going to Harvard (or some special school) or did really poorly on the SAT. I wonder if it's an area difference or what. I applied all over the country, not just West coast schools.
According to my high school counselors in New Orleans, Southern Public Universities all wanted ACT, the Southern Private Universities wanted the SAT. They instructed us to take both.
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Old 06-10-2013, 07:36 PM
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Interesting. I applied to 10 (I think, it's been a few years) colleges and not a one asked for ACT. I never even took it. Over here people rarely took it. It was rumored that those who took the ACT either were going to Harvard (or some special school) or did really poorly on the SAT. I wonder if it's an area difference or what. I applied all over the country, not just West coast schools.
I think it is. The only reason anyone at my HS ever took the ACT was in case you were thinking of applying to West Virginia U (they took it and not the SAT). The SAT was good pretty much everywhere else.
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Zone thing is cool, except they don't tell you what will make a Chapter take someone in the yellow zone as a new member, and so it can lead to a Yellow Zone PNM that needs to go through formal recruitment her Sophomore year to go through as a Freshman.

Does anyone recall the Ole Miss PNM mom who railed against the cruel sororities and more cruel Panhellenic that dropped her Yellow Zone GPA daughter after Philanthropy? It was because the Zone system gave the Mother and Daughter a sense of deniability about the less than 3.0 GPA.

It's that tension between Panhellenic inclusiveness (everyone will get a trophy) and the Chapters needing to have quality PNMs through their own Membership Selection. Just look at the Freshman Class Overall GPA in the graph posted (comes from the Ole Miss web site.) It kind of paints a picture doesn't it?

Considering, what I found a bit surprising in the Ole Miss stats is how many sorority chapter averages are in the yellow zone. There are five chapters in the green zone, and most of those just barely over a 3.0.

Not that my own alma mater is a flagship of academic selectivity , but it seems as if the sorority/Greek chapter averages at Ole Miss are noticeably low in general.

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Old 06-13-2013, 02:13 PM
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Considering, what I found a bit surprising in the Ole Miss stats is how many sorority chapter averages are in the yellow zone. There are five chapters in the green zone, and most of those just barely over a 3.0.

Not that my own alma mater is a flagship of academic selectivity , but it seems as if the sorority/Greek chapter averages at Ole Miss are noticeably low in general. Fall 2012:
@Hartofsec: I agree they are very low, but that is part and parcel when the University forces Chapters to have Recruitment during the Semester at an SEC school. So many unsatisfied PNMs were withdrawing from Ole Miss after Recruitment that Administration moved Recruitment out of the traditional preterm August time frame. Today, the largely non-Greek Alumni Instructors choose to routinely put midterms, papers, projects, and tests during the week of Recruitment out of passive (or active) aggression. Further, Recruitment is scheduled around the Football schedule so we cannot set Recruitment dates until the Football schedule is written in stone. For an Institution where the Administration, Alumni, Faculty, and Students say they want to be taken seriously, the current arrangement flies in the face of any appearance of Ole Miss having a serious purpose for academic achievement. Probably why it's the #1 party school in the nation right now it that academics are not the primary purpose. That being said, I have been told that Spring Term grades significantly improved over Fall, but do not believe it has been published as of yet.
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Old 06-11-2013, 11:15 AM
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Does anyone recall the Ole Miss PNM mom who railed against the cruel sororities and more cruel Panhellenic that dropped her Yellow Zone GPA daughter after Philanthropy? It was because the Zone system gave the Mother and Daughter a sense of deniability about the less than 3.0 GPA.

As my daughter registered for recruitment last week, the following came up, in red, at the top of the page. Before you could proceed, you had to agree to the terms, just like an agreement you sign for internet purchases or services. It couldn't have been made more clear. Maybe the momma above put them over the edge.

Academic Requirements
There is currently no GPA requirement to participate in formal recruitment set by the University of Mississippi.

This does not, however, apply to the chapters' individual requirements to extent a bid. The chapter average to extend a bid is a 3.0 GPA. Women who have below a 3.0 GPA are advised that they are at a greater risk to be released from the process.

With the amount of women that go through the formal recruitment process, GPA tends to be an easy way for the chapters to begin to manage the numbers. Being released from recruitment or receiving a bid through the process is due to a wide variety of factors that are ultimately up to the chapters. GPA is only one of those factors, but there is much weight placed on GPA. To reiterate, women with below a 3.0 are at a greater risk of release. Women who have below a 3.0 GPA are advised to participate in the formal recruitment process the following year after taking a year to get acclimated to the University and achieving in the classroom.
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That is pretty clear.
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There is currently no GPA requirement to participate in formal recruitment set by the University of Mississippi.

This does not, however, apply to the chapters' individual requirements to extent a bid.
Can GPA be switched out with letter of recommendation and be posted at the schools as well?
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That is pretty clear.

Can GPA be switched out with letter of recommendation and be posted at the schools as well?
In the Ole Miss Panhllenic FAQ:

What is a letter of recommendation? Do I really need one?
• A recommendation is a personal letter of reference written by an alumnae member of a sorority to introduce a Potential New Member to her sorority. In the recommendation, the alumnae will write about your activities and talents so the sorority can get acquainted with you before recruitment begins.
Recommendation letters are not required to go through recruitment. They are helpful in the recruitment process. You may send more than one letter of recommendation if you wish.
• DO NOT include transcripts or test scores with your recommendation letters. Sororities will receive your overall GPA before recruitment begins, therefore transcripts are not necessary. This includes not sending it to local Alumnae Panhellenic Associations or the sorority.


The red is an appropriate message for the Panhellenic to be providing, but I think it only tells half of the story as my previous posts here on recs would indicate. However I do like getting transcripts and test scores even if I do not send them on to the Chapter because it helps me write a more informative letter of reference (recommendation.) If a PNM struggled early in high school due to a death/divorce and then excelled at the end, I think the Chapter needs to know that. It could make the difference for the PNM. I've had mothers fail to tell me that there as a dip in grades due to a catastrophe, and I wouldn't have suspected a thing if I hadn't seen the transcript.
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In the Ole Miss Panhllenic FAQ:

What is a letter of recommendation? Do I really need one?
• A recommendation is a personal letter of reference written by an alumnae member of a sorority to introduce a Potential New Member to her sorority. In the recommendation, the alumnae will write about your activities and talents so the sorority can get acquainted with you before recruitment begins.
Recommendation letters are not required to go through recruitment. They are helpful in the recruitment process. You may send more than one letter of recommendation if you wish.
• DO NOT include transcripts or test scores with your recommendation letters. Sororities will receive your overall GPA before recruitment begins, therefore transcripts are not necessary. This includes not sending it to local Alumnae Panhellenic Associations or the sorority.


The red is an appropriate message for the Panhellenic to be providing, but I think it only tells half of the story as my previous posts here on recs would indicate. However I do like getting transcripts and test scores even if I do not send them on to the Chapter because it helps me write a more informative letter of reference (recommendation.) If a PNM struggled early in high school due to a death/divorce and then excelled at the end, I think the Chapter needs to know that. It could make the difference for the PNM. I've had mothers fail to tell me that there as a dip in grades due to a catastrophe, and I wouldn't have suspected a thing if I hadn't seen the transcript.
I do like how this is posted and agree with the second part of the post as well.
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