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JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND
If I were to describe myself in HS it would be a horse mad tomboy. I wasn’t involved in many school activities. I was so totally caught up in taking my horse over the next jump.
I am from the South and all of you fellow Southerners know how big sororities are down here. My dad was in a fraternity in college but my mom went to a school that didn’t have sororities. I became aware of them in junior high, when some of the older sisters of my classmates went through rush. By my senior year all the talk was about how girls who graduated the year before had done. How Sally made ABC, how poor June had to settle for DEF and how Emily was cut by everybody and dropped out of school. Horror stories of brutal cuts and how Southern honor required you to throw yourself under a train if your rush failed.
My parents told me they would pay the insane private school tuition only for a university with top academics, otherwise it would be the in-state tuition of my SEC school. I took a shot at the Ivy League but the closest I got was a wait list. I guess they weren’t impressed by the ribbons I won at horse shows. So after the acceptance and rejection letters I was left with four colleges to choose from. Three were Southern schools, Vandy, Emory and my SEC school, but a university in the North blew me away when I visited so when my parents gave their thumbs up I was headed for the frozen wasteland of Yankee country.
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