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Fraternity houses at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
It’s a talking point at many fraternity and sorority recruitment tables, rush events, and chapter house tours: Recruiters for Greek student organizations say their members have higher GPAs compared with their non-Greek-life counterparts.
Promises of finding career success through connections is another talking point.
But the results of a study released this month are challenging such assurances. Written by two researchers from Miami University, the paper, “Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings,” found that Greek affiliation is correlated with lower grade-point averages .