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Originally Posted by 33girl
I thought from reading GC that parents at SEC bid days far predated the fwap fwap phenomenon.
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I don't know anything about the culture at some SEC schools, but I think it's been going on at Alabama for a while and at Auburn a somewhat shorter period than Alabama. But if you look at the experience of the average member in her (mid to late?) 30s or 40s or older from those chapters, I don't think they had non-legacy parents at bid day.
But it pre-dated the rise of helicopter parents somewhat, I think.
(I kind of wonder if it changed about the same time that Auburn switched to semesters. Instead of parents sending their kids off for a week and seeing them at the first home football weekend practically the next weekend, on semesters, classes start a couple of weeks earlier than football. With recruitment being before classes, the first big campus event is probably bid day.)