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Our daughter is an incoming freshman at UGA. She graduated at the top of her high school class. Early admission at UGA. Hope scholarship. In short, a very good student.

She's a good, sweet kid. A little shy, but a nice sense of humor and personable. A leader in many of the organizations she's been involved in. Never in any trouble, no "social media" issues, etc.

We dropped her at UGA this week and moved her into her dorm room. We've never seen her so happy and excited. We were thrilled.

She decided to participate in sorority rush. Late last night, she received a call and was informed that she had been "released" after only the second round of recruiting meetings.

The most time she spent with any one sorority was 40 minutes. (20 minutes in round I and 20 minutes in round II.) During those 40 minutes, they decided she wasn't worth meeting for another 30 minutes (round III), let alone receiving a bid. Quite a system.

She is absolutely crushed. She doesn't understand what went wrong (neither do we). She has gone from being totally enthusiastic about starting her college career at UGA to second guessing whether UGA is the right place for her. Helluva start, that's for sure.

My advice to parents who have daughters that are thinking about rushing at UGA is to give this a lot of thought before committing to the process. In particular, they need to be prepared for the consequences of being definitively judged based on 20 minute group meetings.

Best of luck to you.