High School sororities carrying over to college
 

I know most schools probably have a chapter or two like this. Most of the girls are in-state and went to high school togather. They've always been best friends, and they all join the same sorority. They don't really branch out. They already know what letters they are going to be wearing on Bid Day because all the girls in that sorority went to their high school.

Do you think this defeats one of the points of being in a sorority. You know, meeting new people. I guess there's nothing wrong with staying with your best friends...but what do y'all think?

I think it's stupid. I have my best friend's from high school and they aren't in sororities. There is one other girl from my HS ina sorority here and she was a year behind me. Almost every girl from my HS went to college in our hometown and they are all in the same sorority. I'm glad that I didn't go to high school with any of my DG's. I liked meeting new girls and experiencing college with them. So yea I think it defeats the purpose.

But I told you all this on AIM already haha.:cool:

Luckily at my school there are girls from my high school in almost all of the sororities and I am the only Pi Phi!! I think it is so great to make other friends and have different expereinces but to still have your friendships with the people from your hometown.
I have friends at other schools though who joined the same sorority and it makes me glad that I did not do that. It seems like they are always competing with each other or really unhappy that they are in the same group. In a way it makes it so that people cant change or make other friends.
Then again, I can see how it would be nice to have one of your best friends go through the whole expereince with you. It probably just depends on the kind of person you are. In their case it was probably a bad idea to join the same group.

Unless their high school group has rules similar to NPC orgs, there's nothing stopping them from joining another GLO AND be a member of their group from high school.

I think it totally defeats the purpose. You grow a great deal in college, and you're not the same person now then you were when you graduated from high school. I know two of my high school classmates are Tri Deltas, but we were in three totally different social groups in high school. But Tri Delta brings us all together, which is really neat :).

Re: High School sororities carrying over to college
 

It was like that at my university. We're only 20 min away from our HS, and about 50 of us went there from my class alone-- so maybe about 200 people or even more (once the kids who leave their other colleges transfer back here). There are girls in every chapter from my HS, but they are heavily concentrated in two sororities. I purposely picked a different chapter than those 2 solely because I didnt want it to be high school revisited. We maybe only had 5 people from my town in my chapter at any given time.

I don't think it's stupid at all.

I'm from a medium-small town and I go to school about 25 miles from where I grew up. My mom and her mom and her mom etc. all went to my high school and we actually HAVE high school sororities (Tri-Hi-Ys...HS service sororities). I was actually in the same one that my mom and the rest of my family were in. It isn't hardcore legacy or anything like that but it's cool to do it together. At ODU, we're a mostly commuter school but we have a pretty strong Greek Life. There are a lot of students who go here from my hometown that simply go to class and then go home. The ones that choose to become active do it largely through the Greek Community. A majority of the girls that went to my HS that chose to enter into Greek Life are in my chapter and I see nothing wrong with it. We were all very close friends and cheered together and were active in HS before we came to college and now we have a bond that will keep us not only friends, but sisters forever. We HAVE grown and changed and we've actually become closer; we are, however, still the same in the sense that we're all extremely active in college as well. We didn't join the same sorority because we HAD to be together. It's just where our hearts belonged, and our hearts are all in the same place.

That's actually one of the (well, okay, multiple) reasons why I didn't go to school in-state. Most of those people got on my nerves for four years, why would I want to spend another 4 w/ them? Leaving high school, I was pretty sure I didn't want to join a sorority, but I wanted to leave my options open. I knew that I wouldn't find a sorority to join at any of the larger state schools that didn't have all of them in it already.

It was funny though, b/c there was a girl from my hs who went to my college. I ran into her, quite by accident, in my first semester. She had graduated before I even started hs, but she had run in the same crowd as my best friends' brother. So that was kind of neat. She had joined one of the sororities that I had pegged as the one the girls from my hs would join if they had gone to my college.

there are sororities in high schools?

I have heard of it happening at other schools. I graduated with a class of circa about 550 and we are pretty well spread out with in four state schools...

1.) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2.) University of Minnesota, Duluth
3.) Minnesota State, Mankato (Where I go! Go State!)
4.) Century Community College (local....ten minutes from home)

Despite the large number of people from my hometown coming to Mankato for school I believe I am the first and only to join a sorority in Mankato from my hometown. I have heard that it has happened a lot at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Speaking of Twin Cities: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities vs. Minnesota State in men's hockey in t minus FOUR days. A battle to be of epic proportions. Gophers are.....OVER RATED! How can you get any better than five Division One hockey teams in one state? This is hockey land. I know... Off the subject. I am stopping now.

See the following threads:

High School Sororities/Frats

sororities in high school?!?!?!

Banned in MS
 

MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 37-11-43. Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; duties of boards of trustees.
All boards of trustees of public high schools shall prohibit fraternities, sororities, or secret societies in all high schools under their respective jurisdiction. It shall be the duty of said boards of trustees to suspend or expel from said high schools under their control, any pupil or pupils who shall be or remain a member of, or shall join or promise to join, or who shall become pledged to become a member, or who shall solicit or encourage any other person to join, promise to join, or be pledged to become a member of, any such public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society, as defined in section 37-11-37.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 6486-01; Laws, 1946, ch. 427, Secs. 1-7; 1962, ch. 358.

(Next section says "This does not apply to Demolay or anything spronosred by Masons"

I didn't think she meant high school sororities, literally. I thought she meant the clique-y girls in high school who all went to the same college together and joined the same sorority together.

Yep, it happened at the university I went to. Several girls who hung out together in high school--and these were part of the "cool," somewhat snotty crowd--joined the same sorority, which didn't surprise me. The part that surprised me was that I, who was definitely not a part of the cool clique because I lived out of town, joined a better one than they did. Hahahahahaha...there is justice.

This was the reason why I chose not to go to school in-state or the "normal" JC that most of my high school went to.

We had YMCA service clubs, that lack for a better word were sororities/fraternities. I didn't get into the one that I was a "legacy" for and I decided after all the drama of the entire thing (for some reason there was just to much politicking going on where I was concerned) and did my own thing. Of course my entire high school career was a soap opera :rolleyes:

When I did final get to ASU, the main reason I did it was because most of my classmates went to either UCLA or UCI and I didn't (and still don't) like California schools.

Most of not all the girls went greek and I believe they all stayed together from their Y club affiliations. Which is completely sad.

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.