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Originally Posted by MaggieXi
I do not think your "stupid", but I am not understanding why your posts seem to be so hostile towards the members of this community. We have been trying to give you helpful information.
Here are some ideas you may want to pass along: 1. Get good grades and keep them up. A strong GPA is helpful. Most of the sororities have a higher GPA than the non-greek population at most schools. 2. Get to know actives in all the chapters. 3. Get involved in other organizations (SGA, Habitat, intramurals, etc.) 4. Get Recs to all the chapters written by people who have met your daughter. 5. Do not bash, be sarcastic, condescending, etc. towards the greek community. Some greek organizations have something called a "No Rec". While not used unless absolutely necessary, it does happen.
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I don't see it as this mom being hostile toward GC members (and I've certainly read enough hostility toward and between members on this board). I see this mom as truly trying to assist her daughter in achieving a worthwhile goal: membership in a GLO. Sometimes it's hard to remember what it really was that made us want to join. It can also be hard to remember how tough recruitment was simply because it probably "worked" for most of us who have gone Greek. I remember asking my best friend who went Alpha Phi at Ohio State a year before I went away to college, "You mean that there are girls who go all the way through, decide that this is what they really want, and then - they don't get chosen, they can't be in a house?" I was mortified. For all of us who got our first choice, there are others (like my best friend) who got their second, or their third choice. And then there are others, like her daughter, who fall between the cracks and end up with no sorority home at all.
But one thing that I have learned from GC regarding recruitment is that a PNM can try, and try again. Carnation's recruitment thread is a great example. This mom needs to keep supporting her daughter the way she is now, and her daughter should not lose heart and quit trying to pledge the GLO that she so longs for. I guess that I'm an optomist: where there is a will, there is a way. You have only to find it.