not what you thought

I pledged an OR House not known for grades with pres scholarship and living in honors dorm (ridgecrest), it was fine. I got a 3.8 both semesters, and I have the highest gpa of my friends but most still study with me and focus on school. I went out a surprising amount considering my gpa but my major isn't the most difficult lol

I pledged a NR sorority that's usually somewhere near the bottom for grades. In high school I was full IB with a 3.7 and got the 2/3 scholarship from Alabama. I feel like my sorority really encourages me to get good grades and honestly out of my friends I'm probably one of the least academic (and I take my grades pretty seriously). No sorority wants you to get bad grades, and in every house there are a lot of girls who put in the work to do really well.

I am an in-state PC15 honors college, presidential scholarship, etc. I pledged a new row house that is in the lower part of the grade report and is generally described on greekrank as being an OOS house with a lot of hot partiers.

My experience has been awesome but I do get annoyed that there are a percentage of members, maybe like a quarter of them, that just do not care at all about academics until the last minute. They end up doing poorly and they drag the whole house's gpa down with them. The other majority part of the house has great grades and care a lot about academics. So in my view the houses with the low gpa just have a higher percentage of those girls that just don't care. Those girls are often the hot partiers, but not necessarily. They tend to stay away from the house and do their own thing but never miss a good photo op or darty.

If I had all of those things, I wouldn't be in Alabama. My gpa isn't bad, but I don't pretend that college is hard and needs a lot of work like my friends from top colleges. Even liberal arts majors are harder at those schools. But good for sororities for pushing academics. That's definitely nice for students who want to go to grad school

I'm in-state, 4.0 GPA, 30 ACT. Didn't really want to stay in-state but decided to because of my scholarship/the honors college. I'm in a new row house that's usually around the all-female average so not bad but definitely not up to my standard (I still have a 4.0 in college.)

To be honest Alabama is not the most ~intellectual~ school out there to begin with... If you're nerdy like me it's just something you need to adjust for. I picked Bama over more "studious" schools and I just have to live with that decision!

I think my sorority has given me a much better work/life balance because I am encouraged to go out of my comfort zone and I have more social opportunities than I did in high school. I'm so much more outgoing now and it's really changed me for the better. I was still able to find academically-focused people but I don't spend all my time in the library and I no longer feel like my self-worth is completely tied to my grades. I love love love my sisters, even the ones that don't care about their grades as much as I do, because they've shown me how to live a meaningful life in a way I wasn't living it before.

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3.8 was the average GPA for a pnm going through Rush at Bama for the past 2 years. This isn’t considered high anymore. Had a huge influx of OOS and OOR pulled here by automatic merit scholarships. We also do well for in-state top academic students, there’s a focus on retaining our best from in state. But 3.8 isn’t “high”…. It’s average. Many who don’t go here probably don’t realize this.

I just want to add that no house has really bad grades. Yes, some are higher, but are we going to put down a house because their average is a 3.25? My advice to you is to go through recruitment and see what house you love based on the connections/conversations you are having. Forget all the ridiculousness and see how you feel you may fit in each house. This will be your college family and friendships you make for years to come. I just can't imagine going in a house for the short amount of time I have and be concerned about how many premeds there are or who has a high gpa average. You have 400 young women in a house and you will find many studious women in each house.