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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Please let me be clear: if we are talking about certain really exclusive chapters, it might be the case that your particular GLO really does matter for the rest of your life.
But as libelle noted, to get into those chapters, you probably already have the social standing that they are associated with. Getting a bid isn't transformational.You were groomed for it; you got it.
But for most of us in the south, it's great to be Greek, but it's not life defining.
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Makes sense.
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Similarly, you associate with people from less selective colleges. Their lives have not been crippled because they went to state schools.
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Of course I do, and of course they weren't "crippled"! But I can tell you that in some very hoity toity circles (not mine, certainly), if your child went to state school, ANY state school, it would be looked at as an embarrassment and would not be mentioned. If it's not a big name, it's no good. I don't agree with that
at all, but that's the way it is for some people. And if the GC stories are to be believed, there are Southern Greek parents who feel the same way about their children pledging certain "undesirable" chapters. I'm sure we can both agree that this kind of snobbery is certainly the minority for both demographics, and it's unfair to use it as a generalization.