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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmm. Rush seems fairly low key at many schools and DD has made many friends through sorority. Guess it depends on the school. [/quote]

Yes. But OP specifically said that her DD is attending a large southern school. And that’s a different animal entirely. Once recruitment is over, though, the actual membership experience is fairly comparable. The girls at those schools tend to make strong connections through their sorority as well. Friendships formed among young women during the college years can be so meaningful. I’m glad there are still women-only groups in most universities (ahem—I’m looking at you, Harvard!) as I think women really benefit from banding together to encourage each other and be a support system. And interestingly, [b]the All-sorority GPA is consistently higher on most campuses than the all-women’s GPA[/b]. So it looks like there are still some benefits of you want to find them. [/quote]

Possibly because they share test files that other students don't have access to.[/quote]

Test files??? Bwahahahaha! Oh...I'm sorry. Were you in college in like 1983?? No one has these mythical "test files" anymore. And professors are far too savvy to re-use the same tests at this point. It's the computer age, friend. They don't need to worry about mimeographing their ONE copy of the exam they've used since 1969!  :roll:

But snark aside, it's likely b/c minimum GPAs are required to remain a member in good standing. Once you post a GPA below that minimum, most groups require that you attend proctored study hours at the library (and you are placed on "academic probation" as a warning to get your grades up). The sorority groups recognize that the women are at university PRIMARILY to get an education and they want to help each other focus on that goal. If you are messing around and unfocused, they will HELP YOU by providing corrective measures to get you back on track. Yes, they do want to keep their status and standard of a high-GPA sorority...but they also know that if they don't help their members prioritize academics above other things, those members could wind up failing out of school and that's lost revenue as well. It benefits the whole sorority AND the individual members when sororities care about grades and academic performance.[/quote]

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