Recruitment at Mizzou

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Originally Posted by tds81510

My daughter is preparing for recruitment at Mizzou in August. She will be a legacy to two different houses. She has recs and letters of support to every house except 3 (all new houses and don't know anyone who is a alumni at these houses).

She is out of state and was a direct admit to Journalism School and has very high test scores but she went to 3 different high schools and had a horrid year grade wise one year (moved in the middle of the year). She also received a large scholarship to Mizzou! Even with that GPA....

She graduated from an extremely tough prep school (top 50-100 in the country) and her GPA does not correlate with a student from a large public high school (had to take Calculus A/B, Physics I and II, Latin, two other languages, etc. and curriculum was all Honors and no AP offered)...She ended up being a class officer, yearbook editor, varsity swimmer, orchestra etc.

I am soooo worried about her GPA since I keep reading that she will be cut since her GPA is no where near 3.6........

She is not worried, as she feels that whatever happens will happen but I am the one worried as I don't want her crushed on Day 2-3 if she gets cut cause of grades (irregardless of her obvious brain power!!!)

She tells me it doesn't matter but I know she will be so sad---even though she told me she would go again her 2nd year after she has a 4.0.

Suggestions??? Her rec's all discuss the difficulty of the school and her having to go to multiple high schools etc.

Worried Mom!

Honestly, there is no good point to worrying. The GPA is what it is and nothing can change it now. It's being addressed in her recs. That's the best she can do. I would search high and low for alumnae from all groups; there's still time. There are great threads here on GC on how to obtain recs. Look in the Recruitment Forum.

Membership selection is based on many factors, of course, and the reality is that the first and easiest cuts during recruitment are based on GPA cut-offs. Some chapters may have "grade risk exceptions". We don't know. That's confidential to each chapter.

She may be better off to sit out freshman year, get that 4.0 she plans to attain, and rush as a sophomore. I'll let the Mizzou experts weigh in on that point.