Wonderful - happy for both of you!

As if Ashley Judd would have been a member of a "bad sorority." :rolleyes:

Seriously, that site is the devil.

I have been in the Kappa house. I dont know if it is the best not having been in every house at UK, but I did think it was one of the best from the ones I have been inside.

My UK rec went Pi Beta Phi as well, per her twitter account.

Congratulations to Moms and New Members! Let the shopping for t-shirts, tote bags and other cute stuff with their new letters and symbols begin! I am so happy for all of you!

I know you are all right and greek rank is inaccurate but not knowing anything about sororities, I was looking for information anywhere. I know she will be very happy with KKG and I am glad she didn't let other information sway her decision about which house to pick. Sometimes are kids can be more mature than we are.

Thank you for sharing your stories, Moms!

Congratulations to all and welcome to UK Greek Life!

For real! Same applies to her stellar choice for her undergraduate college. ;)

http://i.usatoday.net/life/gallery/_...shley_judd.jpg

Congrats to her! Now, maybe you can go back and fix some of your posts where you essentially tell the whole GC community that the two chapters she had left (one of which she is now a member) were not her "top" choices or the fact that she had such "high hopes" and you hate to see her so disappointed this early in college. I can see how that would truly offend her new sisters.

Relax. Plenty of people who share their story here are not thrilled with their invites and express disappointment at least once. It's pretty clear she loved them by the time she got her bid.

I would hate for Mom to change her posts. It is a good testament to letting the PNM make her own decision, trusting the process and listening to her heart.

Did you go back and read her posts? Maybe she "loved" them because she now has to love them--I mean, that's where she got her bid, right? I did and can say that if I was a member of the UK chapter, I would be pretty offended that his mother felt the need to tell the world that her daughter wasn't happy with our chapter because we essentially weren't "good enough" for her. Maybe she needs to use a little more discretion, especially when posting in a thread for UK recruitment that will be viewed by many PNMs who choose to look it up for next year.

For the record, I also have a problem with the women who come on here and say that their daughters didn't care for certain other chapters at University of Kentucky because of a certain website. Don't make it obvious who you are talking about, especially if you are going to say that a chapter wasn't what you had hoped or was less desirable.

ALS463 could it be you are mixing up 2 users posting here? I am not seeing CATFAN ever mentioning houses until she says her daughter is now a Phi Mu. There are similar user names posting different experiences and outcomes in this thread.

You can go back in and click on her name. It will let you look at threads or posts started by her. She made statements like I said above. Unless she went back and deleted them or decided to edit them, they are in this thread.

Great gravy leave the Mom alone. She was honest, sought advice and it worked out. If you are offended don't read the thread.

Alpha Phi pledged 67 new members! YEAH!

Good job but, I forgot to reply to the message you put on here earlier. Great gravy? I should leave the mom alone? Would you say the same thing if mom was saying everything like this throughout the thread about her daughter not being happy because the chapter wasn't viewed as desirable only to find out she was talking about Alpha Phi? I doubt it. Don't tell me to chill out. Hopefully, someone won't come on here and put your chapter sisters down while trying to lament that her daughter wasn't too thrilled about the "less desirable" chapter.

Her daughter experienced very heavy cuts and was floored by it. As an objective observer, I didn't read her posts as saying "My daughter hates these women" just that she didn't feel "right" and couldn't say why. After experiencing heavy cuts and the resulting blow to the ego, it is difficult for a young woman to then get excited and love anybody, that day. The mom clearly indicated that she liked one of the chapters a lot more after pref. WE always tell young women to try to keep a positive attitude and give chapters a chance in spite of disappointments. We tell them to treat it as though those left are the only ones left on campus. This young lady clearly did that. I would not be offended if she ended up in an Alpha Gam chapter after all that.

According to Twitter, Alpha Gamma Delta welcomed 65 new members. Yay Epsilon!

Kappa Delta - 70 (Twitter)

Does anyone have kkg's numbers?

Delta Gamma has 65 wonderful new members. Way to go Delta Beta chapter, your 50th year at UK!!

AOII 73+2

ALS463, you need to go back and read my posts one more time... and no, I have not and will not edit them. Those posts are mine, not CATFAN, whose name is very similar. I never once said that any of the chapters weren't viewed as desirable. I said that my daughter did not feel that that they were a good fit for her and were not her top choices. There's a big difference! But, after her pref parties, she changed her mind... something an 18 year old girl does quite often. I doubt that any of the houses are naive enough to think that they are the top choice for everyone who gets a bid from them. I specifically said I didn't want to mention the names because of someone getting the wrong idea. I was scared to death that my daughter wasn't going to get in at all and that is the kind of disappointment I didn't want her to suffer right before school starts. It is devastating for some girls, and there was one in her group that had that happen yesterday!! Please get your facts straight before accusing and do not twist the meaning of people's words to suit your own negative attitude.

Thank you to the rest of you moms for such great advice and support. Congrats to everyone!!

So proud of Kappa Omega! The picture they posted on FB showed a beautiful group of smiling young women. Good job!

Kappa kappa gamma =70

They took two more? That's great!

I saw a photo of the Chi Omega NM class & counted 68. Can anyone confirm?

University of Kentucky
 

Tri Delta will celebrate their 90th year at University of Kentucky in March 2013.

Q. 65 Tri Delta 67

You're right. This ^ coupled with the statement you make on another page about her visiting the two houses and not being happy with either as you proceed to ask about spring recruitment--no, of course not--this could not be viewed as saying the girls weren't "good enough" for her. Don't tell me that I should go back and read what you wrote and essentially make it seem as though I am being overbearing. You said that you were never Greek. Well, as a Greek who is a member of the same sorority your daughter received a bid from, I find your need to make it appear as though she eventually had to make due with the "scraps" during recruitment to be offensive.

I wanted to edit to say CONGRATS to everyone for doing such a great job at Recruitment!

Though I think some members may think I am being obnoxious about this and I appreciate what AGDee had to say because she is kind enough to give you the benefit of the doubt, I don't see how me requesting that you go back and "edit" what you said to be that unreasonable. If you want to be a helicopter parent, feel free. If you want to essentially trash talk (even if you don't mean to directly) particular chapters at the University of Kentucky--which has nothing but GREAT chapters of NPC and NPHC sororities, then maybe you should rethink how your daughter would feel about that. I would be horrified if my mother came on a website that shows up in Google searches about my school and sorority only to find that she felt the need to put my business out there.

[QUOTE=Benzgirl;2168216]According to Twitter, Alpha Gamma Delta welcomed 65 new members. Yay Epsilon![/QUOTE

Wooowoo!!!

I knew it was a single letter chapter but couldn't remember which one!

As a UK Alumnus, I do not get the impression that UKCATFAN was "trash talking" the chapter her daughter was happy to join. Nor any other UK chapter.

And note, I can be just as hyper sensitive regarding my dear ole alma mater too. Right up their with the best of them. ;)

She wasn't trash talking any sorority; she was describing her daughter's disappointment at being cut down to two. That's pretty harsh. Rush is tough, and an alumna of any group should know that and not get butt hurt at an imagined slight toward her sorority (or university, for that matter).

I believe to this day that I was successful in rush with Kappa because I didn't start out rush with it at the top of my list. I was able to relax and just be myself. As a result, Kappa became my home and where my heart is. I think this is what UKCATFAN was trying to say about her daughter.

This. Having survived SEC recruitment with my daughter at UK (not Alabama tough, but tough, this year especially. More girls went to pref than the total number signed up last year), this all reads to me that the mom advised her daughter to do EXACTLY what people encourage on this site encouraged her do. Which is, you may not love a house at first, but give it a chance. You get cut down to only a couple of houses, consider those the only ones available to you, and on and on. She did exactly that. Rehashing how the mom related it is perceiving a slight that just is not intended. The reality is that her daughter's experience mirrors that of many, many girls at UK this year. There were big cuts all the way through pref.

Phi Mu is going to be big time at UK in the next few years. They are off to a good start and had a great recruitment this year.

As for her anonymity? UKCATFAN = 1,000,000+ members of the BIG BLUE NATION. We are everywhere.

Pass the Pinot, please don't be offended, because I promise this isn't directed to you, but for the love of all things holy, the number of PNMs in a recruitment has NOTHING to do with tough cuts. The cuts are done by percentages, not raw numbers.

Tough cuts are due to the fact that there are so many wonderful qualified young women. Chapters make choices between PNMs that do not seem to make any sense to anyone not conducting Membership Selection. Heck, even some of the collegians don't understand it and get their feelings hurt when their rush crushes are not invited back. Releases (cuts) are tough to whomever is on the receiving end.

Exactly, this was my point. A mom with a hurting daughter just knows that her daughter was cut, whether it be by total numbers, raw numbers, percentages or throwing darts. It's painful all the way around.

Oh I know, and that's why I didn't really direct my comment to you. But to the untrained reader, your post could be interpreted to mean that this year more hearts were broken than ever. There is so much misunderstanding of recruitment and numbers - people posting on GC that omg 1000 PNMs and only 600 spots - cuts will be brutal! I just want to reinforce that more PNMs means MORE girls get placed (raw numbers), and yes, more get cut/withdraw, but the percentages stay roughly the same.

I thought that the UK stories were wonderful, full of the NORMAL highs and lows of recruitment. The Moms were sensitive and insightful and very open about their feelings which included anxiety, confusion, heartache, relief and great joy. I loved the UK stories and thank the moms for their honesty in telling them! As a greek woman I was not offended by anything that any of them said. Thanks for your great stories UK moms! Best of luck to your daughters!

Just wanted to let you all know that my daughter is thrilled to be a Kappa Kappa Gamma. She feels she made the right decision. She is having the time of her life.
At UK they have K week with all kinds of activities for the freshman. They divide all the students into groups of app. 30. My daughter sent me a picture of her K group and she is in Heaven. She is the only girl in her group. Every girl's dream.