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Originally Posted by 33girl
They shouldn't be allowing the guys to do it because this is the can of worms it opens. If this was a school that EXCLUSIVELY functions as a conduit to UW it would be feasible, but considering these students can go to another 4 year institution with no penalty, this is a big EFF NO.
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The technical college guarantees admission to the UW if you maintain a minimum GPA (I think it's a 3.0). Technically students could go elsewhere after finishing up the two-year program, but very few of them do, assuming they manage to get into the UW. Almost none of them are looking to go out of state, and the UW is the best school in the state (one that's much harder to get into through other channels), so it would be rare for them to choose to go to another school unless they're looking at a niche program. So hypothetically--if the NPC didn't have a rule against it--I can understand allowing, say, second-year MATC students who've maintained a strong GPA (a minimum in the 3.2-3.4 range) to rush at the UW. They'll likely end up at the UW the next year. But first year students? Absolutely not. I've attended both schools, and the bottom line is that many, many students who attend MATC aren't ready to be in college and either fail out or drop out in their first semester or two. There are other reasons why students fresh out of high school attend MATC--like money--but the bulk of them are there because their study skills/academic commitment aren't up to the requirements of a 4-year college. Until they can prove otherwise, rushing is bad idea.
Edited to add: There is a specific program that you have to join in order to get into that UW pipeline, so if the UW sororities only wanted people to join who would later become UW students, they could allow rushees only from that program. Again, hypothetically.
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Originally Posted by aephi alum
No.
If people at 2-year college A routinely get their associate's degrees and then enroll in 4-year college B as juniors, they can rush at college B as juniors. But they could be invited to "meet the sisters" events at college B during their second year at college A - why not?
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It's much more difficult to get a bid at the UW as a junior than it is as a sophomore or freshman, or at least was when I was there--do they have a junior quota now? It wasn't as impossible as at some Southern schools, of course. But harder. So I can understand the frustration. And I can understand the desire to have a more active social life and part of the "college experience" that you feel like you're missing out on when attending a tech school. It's unfortunate that the two-year college sororities have mostly died out.
That said, this isn't a common practice on the fraternities' side--I never heard of a fraternity doing it while I was in school, and I can't imagine that more than a few MATC students join UW fraternities in any given year. And even if the sororities did allow it, I can't see it being a widely exercised option. MATC's campus and the UW's aren't particularly geographically close together, and the UW Greek system is extremely campus-centric. For example, the entire campus is lacking in parking (cars are forbidden to anybody living in campus housing), but Greek row specifically has next to none, which makes it a big pain in the butt if you have to come down all the time for sorority stuff in a car. My sorority, at least, required tons of study hours either at the house or the library--it was hard enough for me to make those when I lived on campus; I can't imagine trying to do it if I didn't. (And that's not even counting chapter meetings and volunteer stuff and rush events, and oh my god, so much stuff.) Some years MATC starts their semester a week earlier than the UW, which would make it tough to come to Work Week activities. Just little things like that would be very difficult to work around, and would start to grate on you after a while. I imagine that most MATC students wouldn't be able to handle the time commitment and there would be a high drop-out rate.