grades

I mean 1-15

3.6 versus 3.3

Those are all solid to high b average

Gphi will probably get even worse now that their seniors have graduated. Say what you will but the majority of those girls were keeping the house afloat grade wise. Hopefully they will make good choices this recruitment.

Hey jerk, check your facts while you’re spewing them. 40% have over a 30 on their ACT.

@ Lmao If you were so in the loop with elite universities in the NE, you wouldn't be reading here. Your friends who actually do attend elite universities are laughing at you.

My mom is involved with her chapter of a very well known and respected Catholic University where the typical incoming freshman has a 4.2 GPA. They have around 125 members total in their houses at this university with 7 Panhellenic sororities. No house has an average above 3.6. The fact that we have 4 times the membership and higher GPA’s says a lot about how much more emphasis we place on grades to our members after they arrive here.

Bless your heart @um,no.

Are you seriously comparing a Villanova, Loyola, Marquette or a Santa Clara to Bama?

Besides needing an in-state pulse for Bama admissions, what else is there? A 20 on the ACT?

Maybe gym classes for grades and education majors might just be inflating the Bama sorority GPAs--or MAYBE it's because the 125-member Catholic university your mama advises is much more RIGOROUS than Bama to begin with. Duh.

@um,no Bless your own heart.

Just checked Loyola and Marquette, and just over 20% of their incoming freshman class fell between a 30 and 36 on the ACT. Bama's incoming freshman class percentage in that score range was 40%. Check it yourself on the collegedata site.

So do elite school snob posers like you learn basic math and how to look up simple facts? Or are you a Bama student who slipped in with a pulse?

Mic drop

wtheck is a “paul denny”

Though very rude, the comment from "to be fair" is actually pretty accurate. Elite employers don't recruit from Bama or the SEC in general, besides Vandy, and if there are any pickings at all they are very very very slim, and many of the top employment destinations are for MBA and Law School graduates. Don't believe me? Look at the opportunities on Handshake, they're not very impressive!

For example, no VC recruits at UA, nor does JPM, CS, DB, UBS, Cravath, Bain, O'Melveny, McK, BCG, etc. - and the very few positions at good employers are typically pretty bad. Deloitte recruits UA grads, but not for their prestigious strategy practice. Tesla recruits there, but for sales & service positions not for their engineering or innovation divisions. And Goldman does selectively recruit at Alabama, yes, but not for analyst or associate-track jobs. How do I know? Because my company was recruiting a girl (a Phi Mu) last fall and she turned us down for a sales gig at GS. (Yes, I am a little bitter both as a UA grad and as a recruiter.)

The cold truth is, elite employers simply recruit at higher caliber schools than UA. Prestige companies might at best offer up a handful of junky jobs at Alabama but offer 30 executive-track positions at schools like UNC, UVA, Texas, Berkeley or Michigan (and those are just the public schools). And UA grads tend to stay in the region for the most part so that means even fewer opportunities. Sad but true. Roll Tide.

(Also the average ACT here is a 27 but whatever makes you happy)

OH EXCUSE ME -- 27 ACT, Now THAT is really something. Much more than your cousin who married your other cousin got on his ACT.

Alert Goldman Sachs on that new data point! No need to recruit at Vandy or any other the truly elite schools --

I stand corrected.

I think we have a few pissy moms on here whose daughters didn't make the cut for any elite school or any sorority.

Get a life moms.

Except the chapters with lowest GPAs at Bama are almost exclusively OOS, and the chapters with the highest percentage of in-state girls have the highest GPAs.

Explain please.

The topic was sorority GPAs, not comparing Bama to elite research institutions. No one attempted a ridiculous off-topic comparison other than you.

What is it that has you so upset? All anyone has said is that Alabama grads go on to get good jobs that they are very happy with. I’m not sure what about that justifies your belittling, especially since very little of what you have said is factually correct. Everyone here knows we don’t go to Harvard, but the quality of education is still great and it isn’t hard for UA grads to find worthwhile employment.

Would be very interested to see what fine institution you attend.

"worthwhile employment" = Handshake says otherwise.

Now, ole Nicky Saban has some worthwhile employment.

That we can all agree on.

RTR

You know we’re not restricted to handshake right? I’ve never even logged on

Y'all are so boring -- and predictable. You mamas and alums need to get off GR and put down the
chardonnay.

alabama isn't taking over the world like you believe. our claim to fame is sports and most people wouldn't know the difference between us and uab if it werent for football.

“Alabama is a top academic program.”

Said no one EVER.

“Alabama is a top football program.”

Said everyone, all the time.

Football first, always; academics meh.

I get it — it’s hard to admit that academics are the poor stepchild to anything other than the holy house of Saban. I mean at least ole Nick is smart enough to get that $7.0 M deal. So let’s not pretend we are top in anything, other than football.

No one ever said top but you. You can be successful without being the very best.

Golf too.