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Originally posted by KDwxgrrl
This is vaguely related to the thread and I didn't really feel like starting another one... my sister graduated high school yesterday and I was at her honors assembly on Tuesday. They read all the scholarships that each student got (its a small school, so its do-able). One of the African-American girls got some kind of "Delta Sigma Theta" scholarship - I didn't hear exactly what it was because I wasn't paying that much attention, but I noticed because of the Greek letters. Is that common, for BGLOs to give scholarships to incoming freshman? Would that imply their interest in the girl, so that she might say to someone "well I'm going to be a DST in college"? Or might it just be because her mom/sister/grandma was a DST?
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We (NPHC orgs) give out scholarships all the time to incoming freshmen. The scholarship was most likely from an alumnae chapter with a scholarship program. (I am an Alpha and my chapter has a similar program.)
The scholarships are awarded solely on merit (and need) and have nothing to do with the applicant's interest in or familial connections to our organizations. One of the participants in our Beautillion became a Kappa.
Nobody would really assume that she wants to be in a certain sorority because she won that sorority's scholarship. (Unless she broadcasts herself in that manner.)