grades and recruitment

[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?

[ASTalumna06]

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.

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."

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.