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Originally Posted by carnation
What I'm talking about are organizations that you try out for like Angel Flight (now Silver Wings), War Eagle Girls (the main ambassador group), sports auxiliaries, and leadership honoraries. You had to go through numerous selection procedures like interviews and teas and some groups would have first and second cuts. Usually the groups were top-heavy with women from the older sororities because the old members voted on the new members and they tended to vote for sisters or women in "like" sororities. Hundreds of women would try for 10 or 20 open slots.
This wasn't just at Auburn--this was at all universities I attended and others I've taught at.
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Yep. And it's not that there's a screening that says you have to be Greek to do it, or even the "who you know" aspect with old GLOs voting for new members which could certainly be a part: it's just that the same type of person with the overall qualification to be selected for these elite groups are also the same qualifications that get PNM in top GLOs.
Now, of course there are always independent represented among the super selective university wide groups, but had these independents rushed, they'd probably have been eagerly pick up by GLOs.
It's not a formal exclusionary practice of Only Top Greeks allowed. It's just often works out that way because the Greeks are leaders and joiners.