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Originally posted by Shark In Skirt
To be honest, I DON'T think it's a good idea to make special efforts to inform girls about rush, rush terms, etc.
"I just didn't know" isn't a good excuse for anything. Rush meant ALOT to me and so I went out there and researched it... that's how I ended up here at GC!
I think rush is, for the most part, an accurate process that eliminates the girls who really "want it" from the girls who are indifferent. The former will research the process of their own intiative whereas the latter won't!
XOXO,
Annie.
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I think this would be ridiculous -- the Greek system would be missing out on a lot of great girls if they went by this idea.
As pointed out, a lot of girls in small towns know nothing about the Greek system. Girls from all kinds of backgrounds may never be exposed to anything other than the sorority girl stereotypes until they get to college. I was lucky enough to have had a camp counselor who was the epitome of everything I wanted to be, incredibly sweet, motivated and talented, nothing like the stereotypical sorority girl -- and the member of a sorority at the University of Minnesota. This experience definitely reshaped the opinions I held up until then of sororities, and she was a major factor in my decision to research the Greek system and eventually rush. But without this kind of exposure, I never would have realized that being in a sorority was the kind of thing I wanted to do.
I think it's important to maximize high school girls' interaction with sorority members (especially outside of the South, where Greek life is less of an expected course of action) in order to minimize the stereotypes -- this will definitely encourage more girls to rush. Leaving rush only to the girls who KNOW they want to be Greek and are motivated enough to do their own research is a bad idea, because there are so many girls who would make great sorority members but just don't know enough about it to know it yet.