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dear seminole dad, as you can see from my greekchat name i am from fsu. i am an alumna. i lived in my sorority house for 3 years-actually 4, because my dorm roommate(whom i did not know prior to moving in to the dorm) and i did not get along very well. i don't know what i would have done, if i had not had the house to escape to.
most sorority houses house between 50 to 75 some odd sisters, membership is around 130 to 170 girls. for the girls lucky enough to live in, they have breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared for them at least 5 times a week, with continental breakfasts on the weekend mornings. some serve a sunday lunch and some serve a saturday brunch. those members living outside the house are expected to eat lunch and dinner there, but are excused if they have class conflicts. there are cooks to prepare the meals, a housemother to plan the meals, supervise the staff , maintain order and serve as surrogate parent. there is a staff to clean the common areas of the houses.there are probably more than enough members who want to live in, that those that choose not to, do not have to.
at least at my house, executive officers(president, v.p., secretary, treasurer, panhallenic, ritual, house manager, risk management, etc) are required to live in, then girls that want to live in qualify by accumulating points thru out the previous year. they get points for their grades, their campus activities, attending philanthropy events and other things. room assignments are also determined by these points. most houses have rooms dedicated to study that are quiet rooms, and have computer hookups and computers and printers in them.
it has been determined that living in a sorority house is usually cheaper than apartment living and is much safer. strangers cannot just stroll into a sorority house, but often they can go up to an apartment front door. your daughter will not have to worry about driving to campus if she is living in a sorority house. she is just a few steps away no matter which chapter she joins. living in the house helps her stay in the swing of things and she gets a good idea of the pulse of her sorority. she can only live in a dorm or sorority house once in her life-she can live in an apartment the rest of hers if she chooses.
i have a daughter who will be a senior in hs this year. last fall i took her up to tallahassee to visit my sorority house (we had driven by many times but never popped in). i knew one of the officers in the house and she showed us around. we got the full tour, and as luck would have it, the chapter was holding their crown classic football tournament that weekend, so she got to see how the chapter runs a philanthropic event and she met lots of the girls. that night we went back to the house and amy(our hostess) showed us their recruitment video and talked to my daughter about joining a sorority. girls kept knocking on her bedroom door to see if amy wanted to do something with them(she had just broken up with her longtime boyfriend the night before). that's another reason to let your daughter join a sorority. they look out for each other and there is always something going on and someone to do it with. my daughter was able to see what sisterhood is all about, by seeing these girls coming by to make sure amy was okay-and she was!!
and as we alums all say. while our collegiate years are fabulous, our alumnae years are too. being a member of a sorority is an avenue to employment networking and mentoring; an immediate connection with a group of women when you take a job in a new city.
i hope that you will let your daughter participate in recruitment. the chapters at florida state are all awesome and i am sure that she can find her "home" with one of them. she should secure recommendations to all the chapters. if you have any more questions about recruitment at florida state, i would be happy to try to find the answer for you. you may pm me. best wishes. lisa
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