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Originally Posted by apollo_artemis
I'm going to be rushing as a sophomore this year at a Big 12 school. My college GPA is 2.7 (low, I know). Out of the twelve houses on my campus, I meet the requirements for three, five if you include the houses with 2.75 minimum requirements. I have recs for 8 of the houses, and am working on getting more.
How much will the recs help me? Let's say house ABC has a GPA requirement of 3.0, and I have a rec for that house. How likely is it that I will be invited back to at least the second round at that house? I've already called the Greek Life office and they (vaguely) said it won't matter at all if I have a rec or not. I really need some help/reassurance that my chances of getting invited back to more houses are improving with each rec I get, and I'm not wasting my or the rec writer's time.
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Well a minimum is a minimum. It's the very very very lowest a sorority can take. You are going to be competing with a whole lot of freshmen with very good GPAs. Ask yourself why a sorority who doesn't even know you would go through a bunch of extra stuff to keep you around long enough to get to really know you through the rounds and give you a bid by the end of recruitment when they already have plenty of other more attractive PNMs to consider. It might be different if you were someone who lots of the sisters got to know and love through your freshman year but a random sophomore in a very competitive recruitment is a very different story. Like a lot of people have said here in the past, grade cuts are the easiest ones to make because you either have it or you don't.
The other problem is that even though you meet the minimum for only three houses since 2.7 =/= 2.75, you have no idea how you will even click with those houses. You might not fit in for one reason or another whether they be the most selective houses who can have their pick of the PNMs and won't even bother to look at someone with a bare minimum GPA to a house that's struggling so hard you wouldn't want to consider them for your own personal reasons. Only 1/4 of the houses there is horribly limiting.
I am going to be honest here and go against the trend and tell you that I personally would wait to rush until next year after you can increase your GPA and become very active on campus and get to know a lot of sorority members as real true friends. If you go through recruitment now, it may be your only chance you ever get and when you get dropped it will be the end. Going through as a junior will be harder in a lot of ways but at least you will not have that stigma of having a very low GPA there because that's a big negative.
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