gpa

If we’ve never heard of your prep school it’s not taken into account. But a 3.5 won’t keep you out of any houses that would bid you if they really wanted you.

We get the official college transcript GPA that your HS sent for workshop. We divide girls by region and we have our regional chairs look them over and redline the girls who don’t make our recommended GPA. Unless you have some extenuating circumstances (you are a legacy or have recs/ connections that can vouch for you), you won’t get put in the yellow zone where we will give you some extra time. We look over girls who have recs and give extra consideration to pair those girls with actives they can connect with. Having a 3.4/ 3.5, you should be fine for most houses. Your next steps will be how well you present yourself and how well you can connect with the current actives.

We have a recommended GPA set by us here at Alabama. We are a busy group with a full calendar and we need to feel confident you will make grades for initiation. We have a national GPA requirement that is a few tenths lower. That is our hard cut off. Even if you’re a triple legacy, you’re not getting past sisterhood if you are below that hard cut off. You will be let go before prefs. But, if you’re a legacy or someone knows you and vouches for you ( you or your family had a hardship that contributed to your meh grades) and you fall below our recommended GPA but you still meet the national cut off, we can keep you around to see if everything else about you says “sister”. If you have a decent GPA ( with your 3.5, you’re fine for most houses), the next step is how you present yourself and how connected we feel about you. A rec helps us know more about you before we meet you. There are girls that we already know we want to have on our top bid list because of great recs and connections. But, if I fall in love with you as PNM with no rec, I’m going to pass you around as quick as I can to my girlies so they can see what I see and move you to the next round. We will beg one of our alum helpers to whip up a rec if we want you. The thing about getting recs before coming to UA is it just helps us help you. We only have so many recs we can get on the fly so we gotta LOVE you to get those. If you can get recs in, even if they’re late, do it. A late rec is still better than no rec.

The rec or be dropped is BS.

No matter what some will claim, I have confirmed through a variety of friends that there isn’t a house that you can’t get to pref with without a rec. \n\n\n\n\n experience from a variety of friends experience withto pref in ALL houses without a rec. \n\n\n\n\n

Your friends who got to pref without getting a rec themselves were not aware of what was going on behind the scenes. A rec was procured for them real fast and your friends would have no idea about it. But nobody can count on that.

@Truth- per our sorority bylaws- no bid can be offered to a potential new member without a recommendation being submitted on her behalf prior to acceptance. Every sorority does it differently, but with 120 plus girl pledge classes, there is NO WAY we could get a rec for every girl before bids get handed out. So, we ask the PNM to help us help them. I guarantee if we are very mixed about a girl and she doesn’t have a rec and there are several girls that are also on the fence that already do, who are we going to ask back for sisterhood? If we are in love with a girl and she doesn’t have one, we are getting her one. But, our alumnae helpers are already writing ones for other girls that we really want to keep around and a rec takes 30 minutes to crank out. I guarantee girls without a rec can get dropped if we aren’t feeling her more than a girl who does have one.