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Kappa of Illinois Membership Criteria

This is only a SUMMARY OF MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA, for a full explanation of criteria, please check the document Membership Criteria for Members in Course.

Juniors:

5 semesters completed of college work and registered for the 6th.
75 hours of course work completed, 60 hours at Loyola University Chicago, 90 hours by the 6th semester of course work.
3.90 cumulative GPA and 3.90 liberal arts GPA. (Work of "applied or professional" nature is not counted in computing grade point averages for purposes of eligibility.)

Seniors:

Candidate shall have graduated at the January commencement or be scheduled for graduation at the May commencement during the year of election.
90 semester hours of course work at Loyola University Chicago, three-quarters of all credit earned in liberal courses. (Please check the document Classification of Course work as Liberal Work.)
3.80 cumulative GPA and 3.80 liberal arts GPA. (Work of "applied or professional" nature is not counted in computing grade point averages for purpose of eligibility.)

N.B. for election to the Kappa chapter, both juniors and seniors must be presented for election and voted on by Loyola University Chicago Phi Beta Kappa members. Satisfying the membership criteria listed above guarantees nomination, but does not guarantee that the student will be elected to the society. This occurs only when the student is elected by a vote of the chapter's electoral body.

Last updated on 07-Dec-05 at 16:30 CST
by Ronald Greenberg (rig at cs.luc.edu)