grades and recruitment - Page 3

Maman · #1 09-01-2013, 07:16 PM

Do Rho Gams work in the best interest of the panhellenic council or the PNM? Please include information to support your answer. What if the Rho Gam is a close friend of the PNM?

ASTalumna06 · #2 09-01-2013, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

As a high school teacher, I can tell you there are often extenuating circumstances, most often medical. The most drastic being, a girl from my area had a brain tumor that caused her to miss a lot of school and not retain a good deal of the information she was taught. Once the tumor was diagnosed and treated, she rebounded but her high school GPA was very low due to the illness and absences. Her doctors from a very well known national hospital all wrote letters detailing her illness and recommending her for college. These letters were sent in with her applications. She is a junior in college and doing well.

Another more common exception is a learning disability that was not diagnosed until well into high school. With academic support, these students can be successful in college after a rough start in high school.

This is a rare case, and trust me.. there are students with poor GPAs who are getting into college who never had any kind of medical issue. Most of the ones I've encountered didn't last long, and ended up dropping out.

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Originally Posted by Titchou

The NPC UA#2 is the reason for all this. It states that a college panhellenic cannot restrict a woman from participation in requirements due to her GPA. It is up to each individual group to set their GPA requirement with no interference from PH. While this can cause some women to sign up who will be released at the first opportunity, do we really want the CPH deciding who we can recruit? Sorry, but I don't....

I agree. But as others have said, I don't think it hurts to put the (inter)national minimum GPAs for each sorority out there, and to simply say something along the lines of, "Although these are the minimum GPAs (inter)nationally for each sorority, each chapter may determine that their minimum GPA is even higher than what is listed here."

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Originally Posted by Maman

Do Rho Gams work in the best interest of the panhellenic council or the PNM? Please include information to support your answer. What if the Rho Gam is a close friend of the PNM?

This sounds like a formal test question. Just saying.

AZTheta · #3 09-01-2013, 07:17 PM

Me either. Or is it me neither?

Titchou · #4 09-01-2013, 07:27 PM

From the NPC MOI section on Recruitment Counselors:

The goals of the recruitment counseling program are to:
• Provide support, friendship and personal guidance to women participating in the recruitment process by women’s
fraternity members who are educated to represent Panhellenic attitudes and ideals.
• Provide objective and impartial counselors.
• Promote an understanding and explanation of the mutual selection process.
• Promote an understanding of the benefits of fraternity affiliation and emphasize the similarities in ideals and goals
of all women’s fraternities.
• Provide encouragement to the potential new members to continue recruitment through the Preference round during
fully structured recruitment and to accept the maximum number of invitations possible during each round of
recruitment.
• Promote membership recruitment retention and pledging by lessening disappointments and disillusionments.

Maman · #5 09-01-2013, 07:57 PM

Thank you Titchou. <head nod>

On second thought, Bullet 2 seems unlikely for young ladies as active members and friends of PNMs to accomplish. It really takes a lot of maturity to be impartial. So, after further review, it seems normal for Recruitment Counselors to range their guidance from "maximize your options<high five>" to "drop now."
Rho Gams are really just a sounding board for the emotional toll of recruitment.

AZTheta · #6 09-01-2013, 09:32 PM

Still wondering if you're in an NPC sorority. Thought you might have overlooked my question on the previous page.

WestcoastWonder · #7 09-01-2013, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by AZTheta

Still wondering if you're in an NPC sorority. Thought you might have overlooked my question on the previous page.

Didn't see that before, sorry! But I Could be. Could be not... However soon enough i'll divulge.

Nanners52674 · #8 09-02-2013, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by WestcoastWonder

Didn't see that before, sorry! But I Could be. Could be not... However soon enough i'll divulge.

Hogwash, it's a yes or no question. Why such reluctance to answer it?

IndianaSigKap · #9 09-02-2013, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nanners52674

Hogwash, it's a yes or no question. Why such reluctance to answer it?

She could be in the process of going online with an NPHC. Something in one of her earlier posts made me think this might be a possibility.

Nanners52674 · #10 09-02-2013, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

She could be in the process of going online with an NPHC. Something in one of her earlier posts made me think this might be a possibility.

Ahhh, my fault. My narrow sight never considered that, with her having a sister going NPC.

My apologies.

AXOmom · #11 09-02-2013, 11:45 PM

It could be that she is an NPHC aspirant and didn't read AzTheta's question carefully - hence the "could be, could be not," but AzTheta specifically asked her if she was in an NPC sorority not if she was in a sorority, so it is a yes or no question. Of course she might have some reason for not wanting to divulge that information.

thetalady · #12 09-02-2013, 11:52 PM

WestCoastWonder is very clearly an NPC member. There is so much "NPC" about her language and knowledge of recruitment. Personally, I think she is an AGD member.

WestcoastWonder · #13 09-02-2013, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by AXOmom

It could be that she is an NPHC aspirant and didn't read AzTheta's question carefully - hence the "could be, could be not," but AzTheta specifically asked her if she was in an NPC sorority not if she was in a sorority, so it is a yes or no question. Of course she might have some reason for not wanting to divulge that information.

I could be in an NPC, NPHC, Business/Service, Music, Engineering or independent. I'm sure it's just mild curiosity, but I'm just not saying. Not trying to dodge bullets or be mysterious, I just would rather not say anything at the moment.

thetalady · #14 09-03-2013, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by WestcoastWonder

I could be in an NPC, NPHC, Business/Service, Music, Engineering or independent. I'm sure it's just mild curiosity, but I'm just not saying. Not trying to dodge bullets or be mysterious, I just would rather not say anything at the moment.

All of this "mystery" just makes you look kind of shady, although I am sure that you are actually a lovely person, with pearls and everything.

WestcoastWonder · #15 09-03-2013, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

All of this "mystery" just makes you look kind of shady, although I am sure that you are actually a lovely person, with pearls and everything.

Not my intention at all, but it is what it is and i'd like to move on because this is getting slightly uncomfortable and I feel like i'm being interrogated.