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That you can be happy in any house if you have an open mind. You may have the grades, activities, looks, etc... for a certain house but still not end up there because of the number of girls going through recruitment. If you obsess over the houses you didn't get in, you can miss out on a great experience in another house. True, all houses are not alike but they are a lot more alike than what you are made to believe on this website. All houses have girls with great grades, pretty girls, involved girls, athletic girls, and even some girls who don't always adhere to the values and priorities of a house. The so called top houses might still be getting their first choice of girls but the middle and bottom houses are getting extremely qualified girls too because of the number of girls going through recruitment. The house stereotypes don't apply to every girl in a house and more of these houses are becoming more of a mixture of a lot of types of girls. Plus college is about broadening your horizons and getting out of the " bubble" you may have been in before now. The world is so much bigger than the neighborhood you grew up in or the high school you attended. I think it's great to be around a variety of people - not everyone who is the same or who I have everything in common with. It's how it will be in the real world after graduation.

Values are values. Priorities are priorities. If a house has the reputation for not giving a rip about grades and is near the bottom of the list of sorority gpa's, I'm not interested. If a house has a reputation for fake baking or partying all the time, it attracts others like that and it likely would be difficult to find my niche in that house. On the other hand, if your grades don't matter to you and academics aren't a priority, why would you join a house that monitors your grades weekly and requires that you sign in with a proctor when you study. This isn't about being open minded. It's about being realistic. The OP reflects a nice sentiment, but the reality is that different houses attract different types of girls. For the greatest chance at happiness and acceptance, keep that in mind.

Well said. My house values grades and has a 3.2 house average like many do. Some of us are way above that and some aren't. We have study hours too. We have a variety of types in our house and I love it. I don't want to be in a house where everyone is the same. I love my academic oriented sisters but also have a lot of fun with my sisters who like to party.

Everything you just said is true about all of the houses no matter what tier. They all have a wide range of girls and none of them deserve to be stereotyped or put down. The constant need for people to feel like they are top by taking someone else down is ridiculous. All of our houses are a lot more alike than different and unless you've been a part of that house or personally know all 300 plus members, your insight is severely limited and not worth listening to. People need to seriously act like adults and not like they are still in middle or high school.

So it's ok to say a house with a lower gap doesn't take academics seriously, but not ok to say you go after one type of girl? Girls paint the broad brush daily on houses., painting a picture of generalized rumors that gets told over and over. Why should you be excluded from the fun?

If a lower house takes academics seriously, why are their grades so bad?

Not everyone is a 4.0 student. does it mean they don't take academics seriously? No!!! Since when is getting a "b" average in college awful? Seriously!

Top house is 3.4 ish and everybody else is around a 3.2 ish.!That doesn't exactly make the top house light years ahead. If they had a 3.9 or 4.0 then it would be a big difference.

My issue isn't with your house making great grades, it's with you saying a house who has a 3.3 or below must not be focused on grades and they are beneath you and don't care about academics. It's just not true. I think it's amazing that our sororities take grades so seriously, but its tiring hearing you say that a house with a 3.2 has terrible grades. That just isn't true. Yes, we have a rank of who had the best grades, but it doesn't mean the others are terrible.

Thanks for proving her point. In no way did she even imply that anyone without good grades "are beneath you." YOU are the person putting the value judgment on things. No one is saying that a house with a 3.2 has terrible grades. She is simply sick of being made fun of because she is in a house with top grades. No one, except you, used the word terrible. You really need to check your attitude. It works both ways. Stop making fun of people who study and stop saying their houses take only one type of girl. And, most of all, lose the critical attitude: "They don't just take the type A, 4.0, I'm better than everyone, belonged to every club in high school type." What can you possibly gain by stereotyping in this way?

No one is saying they don't care about grades. They just don't care enough. This is Mizzou, not Harvard or Yale. Just about anyone who tries should be able to get more A's than B's. When you house's GPA is not even a 3.0, that means there are more people getting C's than A's. And I truly think that if the majority of members cared about academics, that wouldn't be true.

10 out of the 12 houses have at least a 3.2. You have no clue how they handle grades or study hours. How can you say they done care "enough".

10 out of the 12 houses have at least a 3.2. You have no clue how they handle grades or study hours. How can you say they done care "enough".

A 3.4 is so much better? If you are in a house that values grades so much shouldn't your house GPA be higher than that?