Grades after you pledge
by: iouPSA the sororities that have the most emphasis on grades while active in the soro are Alpha Gam Chi O. While it is great, if you want a social life beware. You will be stressed trying to keep your GPA at a 3.5 each semester, while doing all the fun swaps and football games etc. Know the expectations of each sorority, ask them during rush.
#1 by: Newsflash
This is one of the reasons why these houses use GPA for 1st round cuts. They automatically eliminate PNMs that arent meeting a minimum academic requirement. That way they end up with a house full of girls that more than likely won’t have any problems managing grades and fun!
#2 by: Priorities
There are a good handful of sororities here with high grade expectations, and they recruit accordingly. They look for pnm's who have shown they can handle it already. All sororities have fun; the swaps and games and parties and all of it, but some sororities also support their members academically, because they have some crazy idea that school comes first. What a concept.
If you want to have fun but are actually here for school and know that your grades will matter to your future, you want a peer group that gets that.
#4 by: ohbut
Explanation for the voyeurs who don’t go to school here (or anywhere) but get their info on GR and TT:
In high school there were girls who were very involved, had leadership roles, honors, and made high grades, and STILL had an active social life (prob didn’t include cring tts and sus insta pics though).
They basically built a resume and had great options for schools and sororities if they rushed. This is why a pnm’s resume matters for recruitment. Most selective houses are looking for well put-together pnms like these.
Works the same way in college, except with way higher stakes. The resume you build in college, by the time you are a junior even, will determine your options when you graduate or even before you graduate. Want to be recruited by a great company or get in a competitive post grad or professional school? Don’t surround yourself with losers who keep saying anyone who makes grades or achieves on campus is not social. They are social which is why they chose a big SEC school with a huge active Greek community. They manage it all.
The cretins who troll this site define social as being seen most often drunk and sleeping with frat boys in NOLA. They’ll fail out, leave school, live at home while still trying to make it on TT, and be forgotten.
#5 by: Balance
I agree with above. People will want to get a job after college- grades do matter. You definitely can balance social and academics but it is important to choose friends and a sorority who has the same goal as you. There are sororities that don’t push academics and getting involved which may be fun at the beginning but then you will regret it as you want to calm down a little and they are still out every day. Don’t you want a sorority that will push you to be your best overall self ? I do like being held accountable for my grades.
#7 by: True but…
@ICU, I agree with you. I would also point out though that the “high achieving” houses are bashed just as much, and as harshly, as the “social” houses. It seems like the divide here has shifted from the previous debate between OR and NR to now more of a focus on “High Achieving vs Social”. All the houses are amazing. It really comes down to finding your people.
#8 by: gms
Grades are great but ask during rush what expectations are for each house you visit. I think there is a balance and you want to pick a house that aligns with who you are. High school and college are very different. You will end up not being able to participate in functions because you cant maintain the GPA that is expected.
#9 by: grades
I'm not in those sororities, but I feel like my sorority is pretty invested in grades too. It's not even that they make you feel badly if you don't keep up the grades it's just that so many of the girls are on dean's and president's list that you want to be included. Also, many sororities have academic awards so it's always nice to be invited to those. As for social i have seen a few alpha gams out and chios they are just around mostly OR boy events - but they are out and social and very nice. I think you definitely can have it all. I would pick a sorority on what your common goals are. That is totally what rush is for to figure it all out.
#10 by: A+
I was sad to see some girls I knew from home were cut because of grades. My sorority's grade cut off is higher than what greek chic says. With numbers increasing every year i think a lot of sororities are looking for higher grades because at least it is an objective way to cut.
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by: top fiveApr 8, 2024 1:37:37 PM
top five in grades are AGD, AXO, XO, KD and Phi Mu - all of them have a very social calendar and take top pnms so making a 3.5 isn't a hard activity for them to handle on top of everything else that is required. \n\n\n\n\n1. (3.90 - 3.86) AGD
2. (3.85 - 3.81)
3. (3.80 - 3.76) AXO
4. (3.75 - 3.71) XO
5. (3.70 - 3.66)
6. (3.65 - 3.61) PM, KD
7. (3.60 - 3.56) PIPHI
8. (3.55 - 3.51) DDD, ZTA
9. (3.50 - 3.46) ADPI, KKG, DG, DZ