I figure that pretty much everyone joins for their own reasons. I guess doing something like this with your HS friends is as good as any.

Whether it's good or not for the chapter is another question. In larger chapters, I'd be afraid that it'd make it cliquish.

No, I don't think it's defeating the purpose necessarily. It may seem unfortunate that they aren't willing to branch out and try new things, but if they want to spend their college years reliving high school, so be it. I think it can potentially hurt a chapter if so many girls from one school join one chapter and try to run things their way and end up either ostracizing themselves or their sisters (which, unfortunately, I have seen happen).

In my pledge class, there were two girls who were best friends in high school. By the end of the first semester freshman year, they hated each other. People change, especially during their first few years of college, and they may find they just don't have anything in common with their friends from high school anymore.

I don't see anything wrong with joining the same sorority as your best friend. If you both received a bid to the same chapter, good for you. Now, if later on down the road, one of the new sisters realizes it wasn't what she wanted at all, she will cancel her membership and have learned a valuable life lesson--- something that comes to us all sooner or later.

Some of us are meant to be in the same sorority as our best friends, some end up there by a fluke, and some do it just to maintain the status quo.

We all have to grow up sometime and do what is right for us. Some just realize it later than others. Chalk it up to growing pains.

While my high school did have a sorority, you're right---I didn't mean literally high school sororities. I meant exactly what you said.

my choices of schools boiled down to penn state (which a huge percentage of people from my high school went to) and muhlenberg. i was the first person from my high school ever to go there. my main reason was that i didn't want to relive high school all over again. for some people, i think that they want to continue in the same groups and others want to branch out. i don't think either is better or worse, just people's preference.