unanimous panhellenic national rules

Please stop trying to stir up trouble. I am involved with recruitment and I can tell you that even if Panhellenic allowed women with any GPA to go through recruitment there would be even more hurt and upset women than there will be on bid day. Each of the national organizations set its minimum GPA for pledging and for initiation. If an organization has a rule that women must have a 2.8 to be initiated, then every women below that 2.8 would have to be let go because they could not be initiated. In my organization, chapters are allowed to set higher GPA minimums than our national requires. We can require a higher GPA, but cannot go below our national minimum.

All you are doing is upsetting those women who were right under 2.8. All campuses have GPA minimums. At many of the Southern campuses, women will be automatically cut under 3.0.

But why would you even want to spend the time rushing if every house has gpa requirements at or above a 2.8 so therefore would cut you anyway? IU is doing you a favor by not allowing you to put your time and heart into a rush that will end badly.

At most schools Rush is in the fall so it would be unfair to set a gpa minimum since every high school is different. IU uses fall semester gpa which is a fair comparison. Also, National Panhel will not side with you on this because IU already makes them look bad to have such a low % of pnms get bids and letting in the lower gpa girls will make that number worse. These girls would be wasting their time coming back from break a week early since every chapter here has a gpa minimum that is at least 2.8 so they would automatically get cut anyways.

If you have below a 3.0, year last thing you need is to join the Greek system. You need to be in the library and with tutors to have a much different semester and bring your GPA up. Employers don't care that you were in a sorority. They will care if your resume reflects a GPA below a 3.0.

please stop with the "our bed quota system is not fair", "our GPA requirement is not fair". When did you all start believing that life is always fair? Sorry to sound harsh, but wow we don't all get participation medals. Ask any women who has ever gone through rush in the history of ever. . .they will tell you that some people get in where they want, others don't and fair or not we can't all be in the same house simply because we always get what we want.

You would be willing to pay the enrollment fee, go to the expense of outfits for rush, go thru the excitement and stress of recruitment only to be dropped due to your low grades? Because that is what will happen, no matter how awesome you think you are. Your low GPA is too low for every chapters minimum requirement. YOU WOULD NOT GET A BID.

You seem really upset about not being able to rush, and I get that, but sophomores with good GPAs can get bids, so just try to accept where you are and look at the next year as one of opportunity. You have time to get your grades up and your GPA is high enough now that you could raise it enough to go into rush next year in a much stronger position. You also have a year to meet more sorority members and make more connections. If you have friends who pledge in 2016, all the better for you as far as connections go. So it sucks it isn't going to happen this time, but make the best of the year you've got ahead of you and things could really turn out great in the long run.

ok this honestly is like half offending me as a pnm, because i ended with a 3.6 that i worked VERY hard for to rush. The fact that people are trying to take spots from people who worked their asses off and deserve it proves that they shouldn't be ready to rush anyways.

How many times does this need to be said. . .when you say " let the chapters decide". . . They HAVE decided NOT to take anyone with a GPA below their cutoff.

How many times does this need to be said. . .when you say " let the chapters decide". . . They HAVE decided NOT to take anyone with a GPA below their cutoff.