so do houses vote on each girl individually for bi

In my house only the girls who talked to a PNM get a say in her score for the day. So we have about two to three girls talk to a PNM in a sort of rotation/cycle and then those girls get a score card for the PNM and they rank her based on...

1. Appearance (Not looks, but how well put together she is)
2. Conversation (Easy to talk to?)
3. Membership potential (How would she benefit us)

Then along with her GPA, the scores are all averaged and all the PNMs are ranked for the day from highest to lowest score. Then we wait for PHA to tell us how many girls we're supposed to release and if it's twenty, we cut from the bottom-up twenty spots. The only thing that saves you from a cut is if you're a legacy or if you have a Rec and it only saves you if you're tied with another girls score.

So the last day, Pref day, our bid list is made with all the scores averaged together for the whole week. So if quota is 80 girls, our top 80 scoring PNMs have bids from us if they pref us first. If number 80 prefs another house, then number 81 gets her spot. If number 2 prefs somebody else, then everyone moves up a spot and number 81 becomes number 80.

That's just my house though. I'm not sure how everyone else does it.

Here's a tip that I hope is helpful for PNMs. Not all of the girls in the house are on the main floor talking to PNMs during the various days/parties. Some are upstairs and have the responsibility of googling girls, checking facebook pages, twitter, instagram etc. and contacting people who wrote a rec for her to get more information or to find out how well the person writing the rec really knows the girl. People on this site have said it before but I can't say it more emphatically. CLEAN UP YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA. All of those cheesy photos that you think are funny probably aren't, and all of the stupid conversations and immature pictures of you being drunk will work against you BIG TIME. We want quality girls who are the real deal, not just girls who put on a good face during rush week. We do our homework.

Every house does it differently. And that information is supposed to be top-secret and 100% confidential. So two the first 2 posters - wow, way to go....

What are the gpa cutoffs? Is a 3.92 good?

Anything above a 3.5 is good. You'd probably be safe with grades in all houses. However, your grades alone aren't going to get you into a house, either. Yes, grades are very important during the first parts of rush, and that's when a lot of grade cuts are made, but once a house has asked you back for a first or second time, they probably won't look at your grades again. Anything under a 3.3 will probably get you cut from a handful of the houses the first round. Anything 3.0 and you probably won't get a house unless you have the entire package besides grades.

We are very strict about grades, but we don't have a specific GPA cutoff. It all depends on how difficult the high school is, how many AP classes the PNM took, whether the PNM challenged herself by taking AP calc, physics and/or chemistry or coasted with easier classes. We might cut someone some slack with a 3.5 in really hard classes, but cut someone with a 3.7 who didn't go beyond trig. ACTs also are very important. One of our recent pledge classes had an average ACT score of 29.3. I'm not saying this to be boastful, I just want PNMs to be aware of the competition and to adjust expectations accordingly. Plus, there are some houses that don't really do grade cuts, and some of those houses are fun and chill and not nearly as competitive. You can find a place in any house, so keep an open mind.