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Originally Posted by OTW
If she's a 4th year senior, I find it hard to believe that she would not know anyone on her campus who could point her in the right direction to solicit recs.
Not only that, she did mention that she's read and gained a lot of answers just by reading GC, so she'd (hopefully) know that having resources like the Alum Panhellenic in her area/nearby may help.
Culture or not, if you want something badly, you do whatever you can to get it and you don't use being Hispanic as an excuse not to do it.
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See the thing is that I just discovered this website about three weeks ago. After reading and learning about recs, I checked my local Alum Panhellenic but by then the deadline had passed. Since I was over two months late, I figured that there was no chance of getting someone to write me a rec so close to rush.
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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL
Well, I understand what she means in the sense that because of her culture, finding someone you know personally who is NPC greek may be down right impossible. And the concept of approaching people you do not know and vice versa to recommend you for something like this sounds odd.
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Thanks BabyPink for understanding. I grew up in a part of town where everyone I knew (family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances) was either an illegal immigrant or a first generation American. Most of them barely graduated from high school and very few made it pass that. Back in high school my main goal was to graduate from high school and go to college. I don’t think I ever thought about joining a sorority until I came to college and started meeting sorority girls in my classes. From what I've seen, the Hispanic culture doesn't really consider that a priority.
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Originally Posted by Senusret I
I'd wonder why she waited three years before deciding to rush.
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The reason why I waited so long to rush is simply this: I didn't care for it. It wasn't a concern for me so I paid no attention to it. It wasn't until last year that I became interested but by then I had missed the deadline. And it wasn't until I found this website that I realized how competitive it is at my school. I really wished I had discovered this website last year so that I would've prepared myself better for this year.