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Old 09-28-2017, 07:45 PM
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You are not getting into any sorority with bad or mediocre grades.

Y'all.

We get a lot of GPA questions here. A lot of my older alumnae friends see a lot of recruitment GPA questions in those Whatever University Class of 2021 type groups that their kids are in.

"Suzy had a rough senior year after she tore her ACL and had to quit basketball. She only has a 3.0. Is that going to affect recruitment?"

"I had a rough freshman year so I only have a 2.75. Will I still get a bid."

I really hate to break it to you guys, but it matters. And you probably won't get one.

Remember when you were little and you had to be X inches tall to ride the ride? That's what your grades are. You are not even going to get on the Sorority Coaster if your grades are mediocre to bad.

But I have a 3.35, is that bad?

I know some of you have grades that you think are okay. Like, a 3.2. Meh. Not amazing. Not awful. Depending on where you go to school, that's fine.

There are plenty of schools out there where a 3.2 from high school is going to be fine. But really, there are some chapters who are not even really batting an eyelash at anyone with less than an honor roll GPA.

This is especially true for high school grades. There are chapters with out-of-HS GPA requirements higher than that. Ex: There are chapters with GPAs for freshmen set at like, 3.6. You are dead in the water if you have a 3.2 and everyone on campus has a GPA requirement at 3.5. Yes, it was high school but it matters. Sorry.

For the upperclassmen:

The average chapter or Panhellenic is going to advertise something like "XYZ's GPA requirement is a 2.5." or "XYZ requires a 2.75 to join." Ok. But that is bare minimum.

I really hope you do not think that your 2.5 puts you on a chapter's radar. It does not. Depending on where you go to school, you are not making it past the first day with grades that JUST MEET the standard.

Honestly, when you are in a pool with high schoolers with 4.0s, your 3.1 looks a lot less impressive. Are they comparing HS to college? Yes. Fair? Maybe not but if it comes time to make some decisions, the upperclassmen with the mediocre GPAs are likely the first to go.

Further, if you have been in school for more than one year and your GPA is still that low, like 2.75, this is my unpopular opinion, but you need to have a seat.

Recruitment need not be your focus. Graduation needs to be your focus. I have been out of college for a little bit and I honestly do not know if you can even GRADUATE these days with a 2.5 or 2.75.

Even if you can graduate, if you pull up to someone's grad school with a 2.75, they are going to laugh. Hard.

Can they make exceptions?

I don't know. We are all different with different bylaws. I can only speak for 1 of 26. It's your best bet to assume they can't. Depending on your school they have no reason to. Look at Bama. Bama's recruitment has over 2,000 PNMs. No chapter on that campus is losing sleep over a junior with a 2.9. Even at smaller schools, they are not doing that. I have worked with chapters with 40 people in them. They are too small to waste a spot on someone who is going to drag down their chapter GPA.

But I'll do BETTER in school if I join!

No. No you will not. Statistically you will probably do worse. If you are struggling with school as a freshman with NO activities and have a 2.78, if you pile on (example) Kappa Kappa Gamma as a sophomore and 15 credits and 30 hours per week of meetings, homecoming stuff, etc. you are likely not going to do better. I'd love for someone to make me a liar but Murphy's Law states that the girls with the lowest GPAs actually end up: dropping out of school, transferring, or quitting, or being that girl who is on grade probation who quits because she can literally do nothing but go to chapter and go home.


So please. Back away from the Panhellenic Instagram. Put school first.



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