UT question
 

hey yall sorry if this a weird question but i just want to ask someone random and unbiased if that makes sense. i plan on going through recruitment at university of texas next year, and i don't know how i feel about staying in an all-girls dorm. will sororities look down upon me if i'm not staying in SRD or Hardin House? i'm sure some wouldn't pay that much attention to something like that but what about the others. i'd appreciate any input :)

Well, if you don't know how you'd feel about staying in an all-girl dorm -- what ever will you do when you have to live in an all-girl sorority house? lol...

lol well good point... but that just feels different to me since i won't be a freshmen anymore and trying hard to meet people. i'll already know guys, have friends outside of the house, etc. so it doesn't seem as bad. i like being friends with guys though and would like the chance to meet some easily outside of alcohol/party setting if that makes sense. i don't know if any of that would really matter though.

SRD and especially Hardin House will be MAJOR pluses if you do happen to live in one of those. Not necessarily because sororities think the girls who live there are better, but because you'll be meeting/mixing with girls who are pretty well prepared for UT recruitment. If that makes sense. Most (if not nearly all???) of the girls in HH for example (I can speak to that more than SRD because I have friends who lived in HH) go Greek.

But you should know that getting into those dormitories is pretty difficult. You have to work your connections.

I don't think, though, that sororities will look down on you if you do not live one of those places. They surely understand how hard it is to get placed in those dorms - they're really high demand!

MANY MANY MANY girls who do not live in HH or SRD find their homes at UT! :)

thank you breathesgelatin, good points :)

Also, there are plenty of girls who live at Towers who rush and join sororities. I'm sure all residence halls have girls who go through recruitment. IOW, it won't be a deal breaker if you don't live at HH or SRD.

You're being silly. No one will care where you're living. There are far more important things to concern yourself with like grades, involvement, personality and recs.

I have to say that in my opinion you will have a much better freshman year experience if you live at HH or SRD.

UT? University of Tennessee? University of Trannsylvania? University of Texas?
Don't assume everybody knows which UT you mean.;)

Oh, does Transylvania have a Hardin House and SRD? I didn't know they were a chain;)

lol oops, i thought having Longhorn in my username was a giveaway :)

Well, it should have been a dead giveaway, but the fact that you specifically mentioned the "University of Texas" in your original post should have removed ALL doubt.:rolleyes:

True, but it's still good to point it out anyway. All too often people post schools by their initials only and not always reference the school in the initial post.

I guess you just have to be an old-timer to understand the inside joke.

Hijack! It's actually Transylvania University, and that's my school! lol, I'm sure I'm missing some sort of inside joke here, but I wanted to clarify!

End hijack

Good luck LonghornPNM! I know absolutely nothing about Texas recruitment, but I wish the best all the same!

I always get super excited when I see UW threads, until i open them and find that they're for the University of Washington....

My sister lived in Hardin and it was a big residence for PNMs and actives. Her roommate was a Kappa, two neighbors were Pi Phi, a lot of Thetas, and most of her friends were Tri-Deltas and ADPis. These were just the ones I met when I visited. I saw a lot of Greek letters and accessories.

Decided to post this link here. It is a not-so-flattering story about (NPC) sorority recruitment at U. Texas. From the way the article is written, the author is not in a sorority.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...y/6023269.html

What a dumb article! The entire story is based on heresay. I can't believe The Chronicle printed it.

I also love how she keeps refering to her informant as a "pledge," yet said informant/pledge is participating in recruitment from the active side.

It is supposedly a "relationship" column. Yes, I saw it, and was duly horrified. Luckily, she's an idiot, so my hope is that anyone who would read that and then decide not to go through recruitment is someone we wouldn't want . :rolleyes:

Well, I must confess...we used the term QR.

I sort of like the article. I didn't find it that shocking. Elements are clearly exaggerated, but I think the sorority member was probably complicit in that.

Yeah, we used the term QR too back in the dark ages, but much of the rest of it is sooooo not how I remember. We actually tried to be kind, not only to each other, but to the girls going through.

It is true though that after seeing it from the other side, I wondered how I ever got in.

well i'm just going to be honest, the article probably won't keep me from rushing but it did do it's job to freak me out :P

That article has all sorts of wrong in it. It isn't even worth discussing. Maybe Alexandra Robbins can use it as source material for a sequel. :rolleyes:

Let's face it. Recruitment anywhere requires some judgements to be made, from both the sorority side and the PNM side. If someone isn't comfortable with that idea, they probably shouldn't go through recruitment, especially at a competitive school. Sororities are selective organizations.

I've got to go take off these sorority issued spanx now. They're just killing me!

hey yall im sick today and really bored so i thought i'd give yall an update on what i decided.
obviously nothing is set in stone yet because it's only october and they don't send out contracts this early usually...but if i am ABLE to i think i'm going to stay at SRD or Hardin, the one where my sister lived (not saying which because it's probably irrelevant and i'm trying to be discreet :) )
and before anyone is like why didn't you just ask your sister in the first place then if she lived there:
well i did ask her first, and that's who gave me the idea that it mattered in the first place, but i just wanted to ask from someone unbiased (she is my sister, and of course very biased :) )
so thanks for all the help so far and hopefully i will be posting my rush story next august!

LOL! The only thing I found completely unbelievable was the Spanx bit. No one else wears my Spanx! :p

I've been in groups--NOT MY SORORITY, mind you--where the ZIP code filtering is done when we're inviting potential donors to events. It's not so rare or ridiculous.

I missed the article by a couple of days, but I'm going to throw my two cents in. Be forewarned: I am going to make an "ass of u and me" as the expression goes and assume a lot of things...I am not from UT and from the membership selection this is clearly not Alpha Phi. Buttt...

1. This is undoubtedly one of the most competitive chapters in terms of return rates. Very few chapters at any campus can get away with being that selective initially. This is probably true for a very small handful of chapters on the campus.
2. The $1,400 rush fine is likely the accumulation of all possible fines (meaning you'd pretty much have to not show up to any work week, rush events or membership selection to get it).
3. When they cut "6s and 7s"...I highly doubt that a 6 or a 7 corresponds to what a 6 or a 7 means in the "dating world", as they try to compare it to. My guess is that to get a 1 score you'd have to have a .5 GPA from high school, never stepped foot in a club or activity, got no recs up the boot, etc. My guess is that a 6 or 7 had a very mediocre GPA (compared to whatever standard UT uses for grades), limited activites (maybe was a member of a club but never had leadership, and played only a year of JV instead of three of varsity or what-have-you), no rec, etc.
4. It is obviously exaggerated...I know so many girls that take a secret pride in talking about how bratty and selective they are during rush to boys or friends from back home. "We only take the hottest girls", blah blah...not usually true, but to some people it's fun to say.
5. If this was the case in all sororities, so few PNMs would get bids at UT. But it seems that for the average rushee there is a very strong chance at a happy ending (pending they consider all houses) so, therefore, it is pretty obvious how much this is exaggerated.

What ever ill-effect the Greek system feels from this article can be laid directly at the feet of little miss K.T. in her tight Spanx. What in the world was she thinking? Of course sororities have to make judgements about the PNMs, but why put out for everyone to see exactly how your chapter does it? Poor judgement by K.T. and apparently her chapter when choosing her for membership!

Good for you! And if you happen not to get into one of those dorms (although being a legacy via your sister will certainly help, ain't gonna lie), I still don't think you have any cause to worry! :)