Recruitment at Pitt
 

How is rush at the University of Pittsburgh? Is it pretty intense/difficult to get a bid? What about rushing as a sophomore? Also, I was looking at their greek life website and there are a lot of chapters there that don't seem to be very well-known/prevalent in the southern schools, which chapters are the better, more well-known chapters at Pitt?

No one is going to give you "reputation" advice on GC, and if you're looking for a sorority experience like you would get at a southern school, it would behoove you to attend elsewhere.

LOL you got that right!

Rushing as a sophomore is 100% not a problem at Pitt. There may actually be more sophomores than freshmen that rush.

It's not a cakewalk, but it is not nearly as competitive as big recruitment schools. If you give every house a chance, you will very likely get a bid. Over the past 7 years since I graduated, all of the sororities have really upped their game. For example, everyone took quota this year during fall recruitment, and there will be NO spring recruitment for the first time that anyone can remember. There used to be a strong divide between the "top" chapters, the middle and the bottom, but those lines are now heavily blurred. Reputations are b.s., particularly at Pitt which is a large school where there is a lot of diversity of opinions, and a lot of non-greek idiots who just pass on old rumors or reputations but know ZERO about any of the orgs. Almost all of the sororities are pretty strong right now.

Recs are generally a foreign concept. There's not many legacies going through, so be sure to mention. I don't think any houses will write you off for being a legacy to another house.

Just saw this and just saw the OP's prior post about rushing at UT.

Totally, utterly different worlds.

Thanks kddani for your insight!

As someone who is very familiar with the organizations at Pitt and has experience with southern schools as well, I'm surprised to see this. While Pitt has several chapters that thrive in the Northeast, the others have pretty solid national (and southern) reputations.

^^Yes, I understood some that she was talking about, but I thought saying there were "a lot" was, well, a lot of ridiculous.

Nobody QFPed the last post. :(

Just because you have not heard of the ones at Pitt does not mean they are not strong, thriving organizations.

hookem, since you turned off your PMs after you sent me one, I am going to reply here.

As I said in my post, recs aren't necessary.

Again, as I said in my post, I am NOT going to tell you the reputations of the chapters at Pitt. You know zero about any of the chapters besides what you tried to look at online, you've never met a single woman from any of the chapters, and you're focusing on 3 of them because they are strong in your area? (many other chapters at Pitt are strong nationally, especially in the South, including my own chapter- KD- which didn't make your "list" - not a good idea when you're asking someone for help) Chapters are different everywhere. And further, if you go into recruitment only looking at 3 chapters, you are going to be sorely disappointed.

I'm sorry if these seems harsh, but we just don't do that here. And I'm not going to do that for my school. The sororities have really done a great job the past couple years and nearly every chapter is excellent now.

Oh, and also - don't come up north for an easy peasy (so you think) rush and then transfer back down to Texas. I don't think so, Homie don't play that.

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I transferred when I didn't get a bid. Everyone knows you go to school to join a top tier sorority and get your MRS degree. Its important to get that man in this tough economy!

For someone who was so upset about Texas sororities relying on PNM reputations to determine who gets invited back and receives a bid, you have a lot of nerve coming here to ask strangers about the reputations of sororities at another school. It's obvious that the reason she's so interested in southern sororities and reputations at Pitt is because she had an unsuccessful rush at Texas this year. http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...26#post1842326. Thank goodness KSUViolet QFPed her original post there before she deleted it after she made this post. Gee, I wonder why she tried to delete it?

What good would it do to transfer to a school with an "easy" recruitment only to get a bid from one of those "lesser" sororities? She couldn't try to transfer back to Texas and get in through the back door via affiliation.

LadyLonghorn, why do you care so much? Looking at your past posts, it looks like you take a lot of time going back to look at what people have posted before just to come back and rub it in their faces. Yes, I did have an unsuccessful rush at Texas, and no, I am not planning on transferring to another school and coming back to Texas. I would never choose a school just because of their greek life. Like most people should, I am actually going to college to get an education, not to be in a sorority. I actually did get a bid through continous opening bidding and decided to decline it, because after much thought and after a difficult rush, greek life at Texas is something I decided was too much for me. My sister is at Pitt and that is why I was wondering. Thanks though for your feedback LadyLonghorn! Happy thanksgiving to you too!

Oh, and I didn't mean to delete my post. I clicked the button to edit at the end that I did get a bid through continuous opening bidding and accidentally deleted my post. Why would I delete it if the person right under me had copied it anyway? I would be happy to share my story at Texas with anyone, that is why I wrote it in the first place, or else I wouldn't have even written it. It was a learning experience, and THANK GOODNESS KSUViolet QFPed my original post so people can still read it!

I have to say, if LadyLonghorn is so wrong, then how was she able to guess the three specific sororities that you asked me about at Pitt? It was uncanny.

When did she guess the 3 specific sororities? I asked about those, because I know they are pretty well-known, well-established chapters at Texas and are also part of the very few that are at Pitt as well.

I would assume in a PM. And there you go again (tm Ronald Reagan) with the overstating - "very few"? Get real. There are TWENTY SIX sororities in the NPC, and some of the "big 6" at Texas mean absolutely nothing at other schools across the nation.

If your older sister goes to Pitt, why are you asking random strangers on the internet for info on the Greek system instead of her?

I care so much because it is people with attitudes like yours that continue to perpetuate the acrimony and angst in the Texas sorority system.

There are 11 NPC sororities at Pitt. Seven of those are also at Texas. But you only asked KDDani about the three that are in the UT "Big Six." I'll chalk it up to my amazing psychic abilities that I was able to tell KDDani via PM which ones you had asked about long before the last bunch of drivel you posted.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to watching a very frustrating football game with my family.

Well there are many other girls out there who are bashing the Texas sorority system more than I am, so you have much more to worry about! 33girl, my sister is not in a sorority at Pitt, so she doesn't know much at all about greek life at Pitt. Yes, I did ask about those 3, because those are the ones that I have the most friends in and are the ones that I hear about/am around the most, and yes, they do happen to be a part of the "big 6," so I was wondering if they were just as good at Pitt. Sorry for being curious! It's thanksgiving... live a little!

If you're around them... and you have friends in them... why are you here asking US about them?

She has friends in them at Texas, she doesn't know a soul in ANY sorority at Pitt.

Ah, I see now. I was wondering why she'd be asking if she knew members of some of the chapters personally.

At any rate, you need to realize, hookem, that to inquire about only three of the chapters (whether you have friends in them or not) is not going to help your cause. Especially when those people/chapters you know personally are hundreds upon hundreds of miles away from where you're going to be.

Asking for reputations, whether it be in regard to one chapter or all of them, is not going to produce a positive repsonse from people here.