| 1. Membership shall be based on scholarship and citizenship. If a student is placed on probation for citizenship violations, she will be disqualified for that semester.
2. Membership is for the semester following the one in which the qualifying grades were earned, and is for one semester only. In order to become a member, the student must submit an application for each semester for which she is eligible. Grades earned in the second semester of the twelfth grade will count toward Life(Sealbearer) Membership, but no application is necessary at that time.
3. Semester membership is by application only and shall not be automatic or compulsory. Neither may retroactive membership be granted to any student who has failed to avail herself of the opportunity to become a member.
4. A student carrying 6 or 7 subjects (not counting Physical Education and repeated subjects) must earn a minimum of 10 CSF points and earn a G.P.A. of 3.5
All courses beyond 5 will not be used to compute CSF points and will be ignored, except any D’s or F.s immediately disqualify the student.
5. CSF points shall be calculated as follows:
A grade of A in a subject which grants 5 semester credits…..3 CSF points
A grade of B in a subject which grants 5 semester credits…..1 CSF point
A grade of C…………………………………………………………................….0 CSF point
ONE ADDITIONAL POINT SHALL BE GRANTED FOR A GRADE OF A OR B IN AN AP OR HONORS COURSE, UP TO A MAXIMUMOF 2 SUCH POINTS PER SEMESTER
6. The requirements for becoming a Life Member (Sealbearer) are as follows: CSF membership in at least 4 of the last 6 semesters (10th, 11th,12th grades) one of which must be based on senior grades.
7. The benefits of Life Membership status are the following:
A. Eligibility for special CSF Sealbearer scholarships in other states as well as in California.
B. Chapter Federation seal on the diploma, permanent record, transcript, Life Membership certificate.
C. Automatic membership in the lower division honor society in some colleges and universities.
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