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Well... the joke in my chapter is that at my school "you've got the snobs and the dorks, we're the obvious choice."
I mean sure it's hard not to be lured by the "popular" group during rush with everyone talking about how they SOOO want to join it, I agonized over my decision for quite a while. As fuzzie said sometimes it's just a matter of "gee, I wonder if they would even take me"
I think there is a difference between joining a house that is unpopular, and joining a house with a "bad rep" I can safely say I would not join a house with a bad rep, (well depending on what it was bad for) but I would join an unpopular house. I know most of the time bad rep and unpopularity go hand in hand but, at my school that isn't necessarily true. My chapter isn't the most popular, but we definitely don't have a bad rep. We are the down to earth, well rounded, kind, chapter with strong sisterhood, and we get along with the other two chapters on campus. In fact it was soo funny one night a sister and I were at the bar and one of the girls from XYZ comes up to us, says hi and all that good stuff, then says " so, we want to do a panelenic girls night out with us and your chapter, and I guess we'll have to invite ABC" then not 15 minutes later an ABC comes up to us and is all "we want to have a girls night out with you girls, and I guess we'll invite the XYZ's" hehehe it was pretty funny.
It's actually kinda funny because I've had girls and guys a like tell us they don't understand why we didn't do better during formal rush... (we took 5 or 6 the other two chapters took quota which was 17) But that's ok because one chapter that took 17 ended up with only 9 ( the EXACT number we ended up with after we COB'd) because their new members said the chapter wasn't having any events... and they kinda did some crafty stuff to make the new member dues seem lower.
Hind sight is 20/20 holds true for when you join a sorority. From the inside it's much easier to see the good points and bad points of every chapter, as well as what parts of the multitude of thigns you'ver heard from people are true.
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