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Originally Posted by UKCATFAN
My daughter is going through the recruitment process at UK and went in with such high hopes and excitement, only to be invited back to 4 houses after the first cut. Two of those houses were among her top picks, but both of those were cut as of this morning. That leaves her with two. She is crushed. I, myself, did not go through rush and had no idea it was so cut-throat. It reminds me of middle school. I just don't understand it... my DD is a beautiful girl, but she is on the shy side, so has never been extremely social or in the "popular" crowd. One of her main reasons for doing rush was to make friends and develop socially. We are encouraging her to go to the two houses she has left and take a better look. Maybe she got in those last two houses because she wasn't as nervous and didn't try as hard as she might have at her top picks. It is a heartbreaking process for all involved. I'm very happy for the ones that do make it, but to have such a big let down right before classes begin is not a good thing at all.
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You're right. This ^ coupled with the statement you make on another page about her visiting the two houses and not being happy with either as you proceed to ask about spring recruitment--no, of course not--this could not be viewed as saying the girls weren't "good enough" for her. Don't tell me that I should go back and read what you wrote and essentially make it seem as though I am being overbearing. You said that you were never Greek. Well, as a Greek who is a member of the same sorority your daughter received a bid from, I find your need to make it appear as though she eventually had to make due with the "scraps" during recruitment to be offensive.
I wanted to edit to say CONGRATS to everyone for doing such a great job at Recruitment!
Though I think some members may think I am being obnoxious about this and I appreciate what AGDee had to say because she is kind enough to give you the benefit of the doubt, I don't see how me requesting that you go back and "edit" what you said to be that unreasonable. If you want to be a helicopter parent, feel free. If you want to essentially trash talk (even if you don't mean to directly) particular chapters at the University of Kentucky--which has nothing but GREAT chapters of NPC and NPHC sororities, then maybe you should rethink how your daughter would feel about that. I would be horrified if my mother came on a website that shows up in Google searches about my school and sorority only to find that she felt the need to put my business out there.