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Originally Posted by 33girl
If Sallie's chapter had been different to the point that it was still there, it might not have been her chapter and done all that it did for her.
Unless you're Greek it's hard to understand this.
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Ok, I'm Greek and I don't understand it.
No, seriously. I'm not sure I understand what you were saying.
Unless you mean that it did what it did for me because it was a lower tier chapter and therefore gave me more opportunities. If that is what you are saying, then I would say this is probably true to some degree.
In some ways the whole tier thing is so crazy because
your sorority membership is what you make of it no matter which tier you are in. Unless someone is on a campus where the top tier Greeks have a stranglehold level of control over everything that happens on campus (and I imagine they exist) then there are just too many opportunities for women to not excel and do great things if they truly desire to do so.
For example, while I was there one of my sisters was Panhel president. (Although the "top tier" houses nominated another woman who was much less qualified to run against her because, well, you can't have a Panhel president from a "lower tier" house. But we did and she did a great job.) Another sister was Greek Pledge of the Year. (Yes, the pledge of the year came from a "lower tier" house.) Another one was on homecoming court which was no small feat on a campus the size of MSU with 16 sororities. There were a lot of outstanding women in our chapter who did great things on campus.
So when I hear that women would rather drop out of recruitment and not be Greek than join a "lesser house" it really frustrates me because I know how much they are potentially giving up both during college and for the rest of their lives.