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Originally Posted by ghoastgirl1
The only reason some greeks have higher GPAs is because they get help (tests, notes and other aids) from other members with connections.
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Its called a test file. You take a class, you put your old tests, quizes, notes in the folder so the guy below you can use them too. It wasn't particularly helpful, and didn't mean I had to study less. In fact our test file was pretty awful, but I'm sure some are better. The best thing we had going was notes and quotes which you could pay for notes from a particular class, but that was a campus thing not a greek thing.
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It's not simply because they're smarter. I know because several sorority girls at work have told me this.
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You are being to defensive. No one said they were smarter, only that they had higher GPA's.
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Also if they don't maintain a certain GPA they get kicked out of their group and then they don't have as many friends.
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The national organizations for all of these frats/sororities are not run by students but by former, now graduated members. They, decide GPA policy and some universities will have a minimum gpa set up as well. Both the national boards, and the university want to make sure that education comes first and to set a minimum goal. If you are not meeting this goal, then you need to spend less time with your social organization. Additionally the greek systems as a rule exceed this minimum. From my pledge class alone we had 4 doctors and several engineers, (with at least 2 PhD's, not sure about all of them of course). Academics, at least for my fraternity, was not a major issue. Hell even if the motivation was as petty as you claim, it seems to work out just fine.