if a house really likes you, will they overlook gp

You all have no idea what you are talking about. Many STEM majors go on to nursing school, med school or advanced engineering degrees.

Can anyone who is a business school major (or j school) do the STEM classes and get As? Maybe. Can a STEM major do well in higher level business/journalism classes? Possibly.

The point is, after the basic Freshman/intro level courses, each major specializes and their classes get harder overall. Students major in their specialty because that is what they excel at.

You cannot judge them on the same playing field.

You can judge anyone graded on a curve as it shows you exactly where you stand. But snaps to all the above majors at least we aren't in the arts

I would agree with you if you were talking about class rank, but we are talking about GPA. If you are interested in joining a house with strict grade cuts, we expect to see a high gpa, including A's in AP or BA classes, four years of math including two of calc, 4-5 years of foreign language (including AP). AP classes are not graded on a curve. If you do the work satisfactorily you will get an A and get a 4 or 5 on the AP exam. If you don't it's because the work was too hard. If you attend a school without AP classes (and 60% of high schools do offer AP classes), that doesn't mean it's an inferior school. It's likely a small town school or one that has a philosophical problem with AP and BA classes (and there are many reasons for that). To imply that small-town schools are inferior is absolutely wrong. In fact, if often is more difficult to get an A in a small-town school that those St. Louis private schools where everyone gets and A, but not necessarily a quality education. Ask me, I know. I'm the scholarship chair of a top tier house, just sitting around lurking this afternoon with many of my sisters who are "doing research" (aka, stalking Facebook)

I think it's hilarious how these houses act so prestigious when half your girls can't even manage a GPA over 3.5. All houses are the same sweetie some of us just have more fun

Are you kidding me? Just by your nickname of ??????? one could tell you were just waiting to cut down a few houses you might feel threatened by. Gphi and Aphi have just as many girls taking harder majors as the majority of sorority houses here. Keep your nastiness and opinion to yourself. Your post would have been ok if you hadn't put down other houses-houses that have those same majors you mentioned!

Sure. Whatever you say. But you can't put down the smart houses saying they don't have any fun and then insist that the fun houses, with their abysmal grades, are home to Rhodes Scholars. It doesn't work that way. and we all know better.

"????" You obviously don't know what you're talking about considering STEM majors are graded on a curve. If your STEM girls are getting below a 3.5 that means they're REALLY not doing so well - it's actually a lot harder to get a 4.0 in jschool, bschool, etc seeing as those A's have to be earned regardless of the exam's difficulty. Though, despite not having the bell curve, myself and numerous other GPhi/APhi jschool/bschool majors have managed to maintain 3.8-4.0 GPAs... So much for that excuse, if ONLY my major allowed me to get an A on an exam that I actually got a 60% on (or in the case of your biochem girls, a B-)

I love how she's comparing high GPA houses that are full of easy majors like education and communications with houses where there are members who have difficult majors. We could all have 3.9 averages if all we took were girls in slacker majors.

"Hilarious" must be an Alpha Phi because she doesn't even know how grading on a curve works. When an instructor (and, yes, it is done on an individual basis) decides there will be as many F's as A's, that doesn't exactly work in your favor in a class of STEM majors who are overachievers. In my third-level biology class last semester, which was full of nursing, pre-med and pre-vet majors, a major test was graded on a curve and the A's went to anyone having a 97 or above, the B's were from 94-97, the C's from 91-94 and, well, you get the picture. Grading on a curve rarely help smart people. But, then, how would "Hilarious" know that.

Accounting is not a "slacker major" LOL and being top of bschool > below average biochem... If you can't get decent grades you won't get into grad school which is absolutely necessary for a science major. Sooo... who's the dumb one? A 4.0 accounting major or a 3.4 biochem... I can tell you only one of the two will wind up working as a waitress post grad.

And to ^^ grading on a curve absolutely helps smart people - if you aren't getting A's when you're graded on a curve, you aren't that smart - it means most of your major is more intelligent than you. Sorry if that hurts, but that is stats for you. If you can't cut it you really might want to consider a program transfer before you're doing the breakfast shift at Denny's.

Final note, my finance II exam last semester was graded on a curve because over 50% of the class failed and I came out with a 103% so I really wouldn't suggest that whole "bell curve rarely helps smart people" story. Lmao.

It is painfully obvious to me that not one of the comments here was written by a STEM major, nor from anyone who understands the curve process. Let's break it down for the losers in the crowd. 100 chem majors take a test. It was determined beforehand that it would be graded on the curve. That means there will be an equal number of each grade. Everyone gets at least an 85 on the test. Therefore, an 85 is failing. An 89 is a D, a 93 is a C, a 97 is a B and a 100 is an A because, dumbsht, you can't get above 100% when a test is graded on the curve. So tell me again how grading on a curve helps smart people. And to the idiot who says science majors go to grad school and accounting majors don't, you really are an clueless because you are not aware that to sit for the CPA exam you must have 150 credit hours. 120 undergrad, 30 grad school. Now go back to studying whatever it is you study to get your Mrs. degree and leave the rest of us who actually work in college alone.

Show me a non STEM major who took 2 years of Calculus, 2 years of Chemistry or Physics who has a 21 ACT score?

You're so lost, our accountancy program is a 150 hr program, not the point anyways - the point is that to get employed in the field science majors need to attend grad school and therefore need to be top of their class. Accountancy majors are ready to work ft after mizzou's program (then again, it's a lot more difficult to gain entry into bschool than a regular BA.) Also, being graded on a curve means grabbing the exam's mean % and grading based on that %. This finance class had a certain pass rate that needed to be met and therefore the pass rate was set based on meeting that rate and everyone's grade was bumped to reflect the new "60%" pass rate - in my case that pushed my 90-something to over 100%. PS: generally bell curves are put into place because of failure rates being too high, not the other way around LOL

Are you really that slow???? Accounting majors don't have to apply for grad school (at mizzou,) science majors NEED to go to grad school and to get in they MUST be top of their class - none of this 3.5 BS. Slow AF that explains why you ^ are an unemployed troll.

^this is the funniest thing I have ever read on this site. Mizzou not staying open? In your dreams. It is a land grant university that is well-regarded in multiple fields. It is ranked higher than 79% of other state-funded universities by two of the major college ranking services. You simply don't know what you are talking about.

... Still not Harvard tho