going greek does not help your grades
by: wow
Your grades were good before you rushed, they had to be to get a bid. Greek life won't take someone with a 2.0 and transform them into a A/B student. There's a minimum GPA requirement to begin with, that's why the average greek GPA is high. You can't go greek without having a high GPA to begin with!
Of course it serves as a motivation to keep your grades up, but it doesn't make you smart.
#1by: Active
I agree with the statement that Greek life won't transform you into the perfect student but it definitely does help. As someone who has been on academic probation with my sorority (my sorority put anyone with under a 3.0 semester GPA on academic probation) I can say that there's a lot of incentive and support to work hard and achieve good grades. On probation, I couldn't go to any swaps or date parties. I couldn't even be a sober monitor at them. It sucked. But my house had monthly meetings with our academic advisors and alum to keep us on track. On top of that, we had significantly increased study hours that had to be logged at a library. My house also had an insanely big test bank. My house also had tutors for most subjects come in every Sunday afternoon.
Greek life isn't going to transform you into an overachieving student but sororities undoubtedly provide an immense collection of resources to help their girls. I know girls who have had very average grades in high school and they've become an A/B student because of the consistent support my sorority provided. Idk that's just my take on it. Also I guess it's worth noting that my house is usually somewhere in the top 7 in the grade report.
Commentby: A bit
My house has a “test bank” but they are mostly quizzes and study guides. It’s mostly for gen ed classes. But, you can usually find a sister easily who is willing to do your homework with you or study for exams.
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by: Active
My house had a very big test bank and it was all online. We had tests and study guides from most of the basic gen ed classes as well as a lot of upper division classes under most majors. Our test bank probably had 200 different classes. But again, that's just my house We're on the upper half of the grade report and known as being a "smart" house.
And as I said above my house had about 5 tutors come to the house every Sunday and anyone could use them. They were paid for by the house so it was basically like having your own private tutor.
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by: @active
Which is a great use of your house resources, and another positive for Greek life.
My house does the same, and I've also tutored younger girls myself (and so have other older girls) when they've needed it, just like the older girls did for me when I needed it. Part of what Sisterhood is about.
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#4by: jjj
My house helped me a ton as a nursing major. I was able to get tutors and everything for chem and micro about 2-3 times every week for free ( technically in sorority fees). if i didnt have tutors through my house i would have had to pay way more for outside tutors. Most GOOD tutors charge 50-100 per 2 hour session.The grad student tutors are cheap but are terrible compared to the tutors through my sorority. I went from having a 2.1 in recruitment ( and being put in a low GPA house) to now having a 4.0. SO it technically does help grades depending on the person.
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by: Pnm
Is this true of most houses, ex test banks and tutors?
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