Yet if you substitute men for girls and fraternity for sorority... ;)

Hahaha :)

My personal favorite (as told to me by a friend who's daughter didn't get the "right" house and dropped out of recruitment..three times) "If you join abc no boy will date you. IN FACT boys have been known to leave a table and abandon the date if they find out the girl is an abc."

The mother said this to me with a straight face.

oh my!:eek:

"They're new on campus so they'll take ANYONE just to get numbers!"

When my chapter did their first formal recruitment post-Colony, there was one girl in my Rho Chi group that kept calling TPA "the free spot" (as in Bingo). Then they dropped her.
Best part was when I got to biology after recruitment (we sat at the same lab table) carrying my brand new Theta Phi Alpha bag and she looked at it and asked "if I seriously got in" there!

There's no such thing as a free spot.

This was one of the rumors back in the day: "At xyz at Big Private U in LA, they go through your handbag while you are on house tours (each rush group did leave their purses at the entrance of each house, where the rush counselors watched them), designated actives while go through your bag, and run your credit cards through a computer, and check your family's credit."
And for the same house, at my campus:"xyz only invited back girls who had at least seven recs."
Also, (and this may not be an urban legend, but it is part of MS, and probably can't be openly discussed), "If you spend the whole party talking to a transfer student, you will be cut, because transfers are not allowed to vote on who is invited back."

Since you are talking about Big Private U in LA (and the Big Public University isn Los Angeles...since I transferred there) and I have more than a passing knowledge of the campus: Transfer students cannot be in the house until the first chapter meeting. If it is a year after transferring they are no longer transfers, but actives. The "transfer" students, if there are any, help recruitment in different ways....not by rushing.

So, no she didn't put a kibosh on the invitation....because she didn't meet you.

They would have been laughing at me...because I didn't bring a purse (this was still in the era when purses on campus were verboten)...and I had no credit cards until the last semester of my senior year. That would just show that my family is so awesome all I need to do is walk in a store and I get stuff. :)

So...your awesomness...you are either royalty or the President of the United States. I am honored!!!!!:cool:

This would never happen at 'Big Private U in LA' due to the fact that any fraternity man's questions when being introduced to a girl for the first time are; "What's your name?", followed immediately by "which house are you in?"

So it would never get as far as a date :p

Yes, but this is Large Public School in LA...so, they are a little slower on the uptake.:p

........oh wait, I graduated from that school. :D

This one is always around at UO.

At another campus, ABC will cut you if you have smaller than D cups. Oh and no the rumor wasn't about Tri-Delta.

XYZ only takes cheerleaders.

That's all I can come up with now.

The most ridiculous one I heard is that Panhel makes all of the Rho Chi's dye/cut their hair, so even if their hair is seen around stickers in rush slideshows, they can't be recognized.

I am glad someone sees that what I said was in no way meant to sound "bitchy" and I think its kind of silly for my post to cause such a fuss. Especially for someone to go to the length to look up everything I had ever posted on here. And to barbie whatever I didn't accept her advice because it was rude and condescending. I politely declined it when I could have been as rude about it as you are. Yes I am a "PNM". But this site is anonymous. Do I think anyone from the school I'm recruiting is going to look through ALL the sophomores doing recruitment and figure out who I am? No I definitely don't. And if they do I doubt anything I've said would truly effect their opinion of me. As a moderator 33girl you give a very bad reputation to other users on this site. If anyone in this scenario has came off as a bitch it is you and I'm sorry for ever going on here to look for any advice. I'm sorry for stating things about chapters at my school that I made clear were rumors. Rumors that almost every single student at my school knows. I didn't state the chapters and if I had I would agree that I was in the wrong.

And you're making me regret defending you. Stop now.

This is why commenting on principle is so treacherous.

I was trying to help, snookums. Sorry you just don't understand that. Yes, rumors are stupid and repeating them should not hurt you in rush...but the fact of the matter is, some PNMs have repeated rumors on here and it HAS hurt them. Many many many more people lurk on this site than actually post.

"Moderator" doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.

And regarding your bolded...yes, they might.

It's not hard to look up someone's posting history - it's linked right to their username.

So, it's not going to the length of doing anything. It's less work than going from the couch to the refrigerator for some delicious, delicious ice cream.

Just saying.

Just so you know--even though you went through and deleted all your posts, Barbie'sRush QFP'd everything so, figuring out who the sophmore (nursing is it?) student who took a bid to a sorority she didn't want and has a 3.8 GPA in college and a 3.3 from high school and is now looking to go through recruitment at the University of Kentucky, shouldn't be too hard. You might want to step away from the computer, now. Also, even though an NPC is coming to Kentucky in the fall-please take note that there are many people in the various organizations (to include people from Headquarters) that check out this site.