Help! Question about PNM GPA

lex5376 · #1 02-27-2013, 10:51 PM

Hello! I am rushing in the Fall and have a few questions about the GPA requirements needed for rush. Most of the sororities at the school I will be attending require a 3.0 high school GPA as well as a 3.0 college GPA (to maintain while you are a member of that sorority.

I have a 3.4/4 high school GPA, so I am set on that aspect. However, at my high school we can take "dual enrollment" classes at a local community college where we get both high school and college credit for those classes. (my 3.4 has my dual enrollment classes averaged into it as well)

My dual enrollment GPA alone is a 2.8, which is not high enough for the 3.0 college requirement from the sororities, but I am applying as a freshman. My question is, am I safe as far as GPAs go for recruitment because my average is a 3.4, or will they look at my dual enrollment GPA alone and deem me ineligible?
All answers are appreciated, thanks!

KSUViolet06 · #2 02-27-2013, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by lex5376

Hello! I am rushing in the Fall and have a few questions about the GPA requirements needed for rush. Most of the sororities at the school I will be attending require a 3.0 high school GPA as well as a 3.0 college GPA (to maintain while you are a member of that sorority.

I have a 3.4/4 high school GPA, so I am set on that aspect. However, at my high school we can take "dual enrollment" classes at a local community college where we get both high school and college credit for those classes. (my 3.4 has my dual enrollment classes averaged into it as well)

My dual enrollment GPA alone is a 2.8, which is not high enough for the 3.0 college requirement from the sororities, but I am applying as a freshman. My question is, am I safe as far as GPAs go for recruitment because my average is a 3.4, or will they look at my dual enrollment GPA alone and deem me ineligible?
All answers are appreciated, thanks!

This is a good question for your Greek Life Office, because it depends on your school. There are schools where once you have a college GPA established, that is what's used for recruitment.

lex5376 · #3 02-27-2013, 11:29 PM

Oh gosh I hope not, or if that is the case, if I took a summer course and got my college GPA up to a 3.0 would that work? Also, I am going to the college on scholarship next year and have to maintain a 3.0 to keep the scholarship, would that fact help me at all because its like I already am required to have a 3.0 without greek life involved?

DubaiSis · #4 02-27-2013, 11:36 PM

Again, ask the Greek Life office at the school where you will be attending.

lex5376 · #5 02-27-2013, 11:41 PM

Thanks!

carnation · #6 02-28-2013, 06:55 AM

I don't know what your college will say but I do remember that one girl on Greekchat wasn't allowed to rush because she had taken 1 dual enrollment course and done badly. Her high school GPA had been stellar.

OP, I would definitely take at least 1 easy course this summer, maybe 2, to bring up my GPA.

lex5376 · #7 02-28-2013, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by carnation

I don't know what your college will say but I do remember that one girl on Greekchat wasn't allowed to rush because she had taken 1 dual enrollment course and done badly. Her high school GPA had been stellar.

OP, I would definitely take at least 1 easy course this summer, maybe 2, to bring up my GPA.

Do you know what school she went to? Thanks for the help! I'm calling the Greek advisor today to see what they have to say and ill retake one of my courses as a maymester to get my GPA up!

Titchou · #8 02-28-2013, 11:44 AM

It really doesn't matter which school it was. This is now and this is you. That was then and not you. Times change. Call the Greek Life office - call, not text or email.

lex5376 · #9 02-28-2013, 02:02 PM

Okay thanks for the help!

gee_ess · #10 03-22-2013, 11:27 AM

Dual enrollment classes are really becoming the norm in a lot of high schools.

In my experience at U of Arkansas, the GPA for those dual enrollment classes(in isolation from the cum GPA) is not pertinent and is not the threshold GPA they look at. Your final GPA from high school (if entering as a freshman) is what they look at.

Now, they MAY look at your dual enrollment GPA and say, "wow she made a D in college algebra. That is a concern." But, in my experience, this dual enrollment GPA is not the do or die GPA.

However, DO NOT RELY on this advice. Talk to your Greek Life office.