[dgdramadawg]

I definitely think it depends on the rushee and on the rushee's family. I was the first person in my family to join a GLO that someone else (my aunt) was already a member of, so it was fairly commonplace not to pledge where one was a legacy (or otherwise connected to a house). I didn't feel pressure from my mom at all to pledge her house, and even though she would have liked to see me pledge there, she felt it was most important for me to be happy.

Then again, one of my dorm friends freshman year sat crying after she finished her rankings the night before bid day because she had chosen the sorority of one sister over the sorority of her mom and other sister. All three family members were Greek at the same school and were still very involved with their chapters as alumnae. I can see how she felt pressure to please them with where she pledged... it'd be hard to go elsewhere and then see siblings and mom on campus at other houses all the time.