[33girl]

You know and I know that people tend to overlook those last three words - "in my opinion."

AGUGA, I don't think it's so much feeling that our opinions are valid on things like how release figures work and not valid on the "best" sorority on so and so campus, more that you can give generic answers (within reason) to the first type of question.

We used to have TONS of people who would come on and ask "what is ASA like at your campus?" for their OWN sorority. People were honest, and invariably, the OP and a bunch of other people in the sorority got upset, because invariably, someone posting was at a campus where that sorority just wasn't doing very well. So we just don't do it anymore. It doesn't accomplish anything positive.

This was the girls more than the guys. I've seen fraternity discussions where everyone seems to say what they feel and no one gets offended. But then again I think that goes back to the fact that guys seem to believe they will make the fraternity, and girls believe the sorority will make them. It's a simple difference in the sexes.

Oh, and Kevin mentioned something about if girls want to get into a "top" house they need to get rec letters. If they are in that kind of a cutthroat rush - it has NOTHING to do with them cutting the sorority, it has to do with the sorority cutting them. Point being in that kind of rush women should have recs for ALL the sororities they can get, not just the "top" ones. If someone sees that ASA is the top sorority at LSU, they knock themselves out getting ASA recs and blow off everything else, they're going to have a rude awakening when they get cut the first day because ASA at LSU had more legacies than it had room for and everyone who wasn't a legacy got released. They then have no recs to the other sororities, who may cut them as well, and they might end up only in the "bottom" house anyway.