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Originally posted by parhodox_sigma
Sorhor I agree with you. I came in with a 2.8 and I'm a civil eng. major. Not excusing anything, but I didn't take regular freshmen classes, I'm taking Calc 1, 2, and 3, physics 1 and 2, and anything else that has to do with my major, while other freshmen are taking English, and Phy Ed. So you need to take in account of the type of classes they are taking. Cause I know my freshmen year I was alsways studying and didn't go anywhere. So to say that 2. whatever isn't good, you need to look at the big pic. and see the type of classes they are taking.
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Ladies, I hope that you don't mind me giving my opinion as it relates to my sorority. I would be in favor of the GPA requirement being raised to 3.0. Parhodox_Sigma, I also studied Engineering at the Undergraduate (and graduate) level and although the classes were challenging, I was still able to maintain at minimum a 3.2, graduated with honors and completed graduate school with a 3.4 in Electrical Engineering. It took alot of hard, hard work, staying up all night long many a night, and tapping my resources in the form of other students who better understood what was going on in class and who was willing to study together and do problem sets together. During those days I also balanced leadership positions in campus orgs, etc. Even now, I balance lawschool with community service that I have been doing once a week EVERY WEEK for three years before I became a member of my sorority and now do even more as a sorority member. I say all of that to say that certain majors do require more work and time but I don't think that we can get so caught up in the major that we excuse students who do not exhibit academic excellence.
To me, it's not relative to the major at all. In my opinion, a young woman should exhibit academic excellence, no matter her major. **For me the emphasis is on being excellent in whatever you put your hand to (academics, community service, leadership). ** In my opinion, these are the women that would catch my attention - those who are just the bomb diggity and balance academics, community service, and leadership while still exhibiting class and grace.
Further, if a woman is too busy with her family/ children, etc. and her grades are "lukewarm" (a C average) as a result, then perhaps she should consider waiting b/c it does not seem to me that it would be prudent for her to pile sorority obligations on top of everything else that she is doing given the fact that she's already doing so much that her grades are "lukewarm."
I'm rambling but my point was that I would be in favor of raising the GPA to 3.0. I think that it's safe to say that all of the sororities were founded on academic excellence and I just don't consider a C or C+ average "excellent." I would look for the creme de la creme and if the woman is not, then she should keep working IMO.
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