[AlexMack]

Okay, here's what's bugging me. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out people who wake up one day and go 'something's missing in my life, I think I need to join a sorority,' long after college. I don't mean any offense to the ladies here who are members through AI. Obviously your GLO felt you would be a good fit for your organization, hence your letters.

Rather, it's the shopping around. It's all well and good to do that in college, it's encouraged there. It's after college and shopping around for a sorority that will AI that I don't get. What are you going to get from joining a sorority now that you can't get somewhere else?

A good friend of mine is the house director for one of the sororities on my campus. This GLO (from what I understand) AIs under special circumstances. Those women love my friend and she loves them back. She does a lot for that sorority and should they offer to sponsor her for AI (which is a definite possibility), I think she'll accept.
Another example: one of my best friends is an XYZ. She was the one that made me want to go greek. Through her I met her sisters and got as close a look at greek life as any outsider can get. Let's say I didn't join my organization and I've graduated. Because I had a personal connection with those sisters and their GLO, I think it would be appropriate to discuss AI at that point.

I am for AI within the right circumstances. Deciding that you missed out in college and now you want to join a sorority, any sorority that will take you-that I'm against.

Tom-AI is not the wave of the future. It's a discreet and meaningful process not to be taken lightly. People who don't want this forum feel that it misrepresents what AI actually is. AI is not a recruitment process for people who missed out in college and want letters, any letters.
It's also rare. The reason there are so many AIs on GC? Well, look at the age demographic. I'm still in college at 22. I am in the minority here. Most of you are alumnae, you're older, you miss your college years/enjoy being greek and you converge here to talk about it. That's why there seem to be so many AIs, even though there truly aren't that many. It's a skewed statistical sample.
If this forum did not exist, AI would go back to sorority members recommending women to join their organization, which is what it was originally designated for.
I'm not personally arguing for or against the existence of this forum, I merely understand people who do not want it to exist.