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Originally posted by Shark In Skirt
Maybe it's a west-coast thing... but I don't see how one could NOT know that sororities and the Greek system is out there are nearly all Califiornia's schools. With either a UC or a state school about two or three hours from nearly every city in California, if not much less, how hard is it to expect a potential rushee to call ahead, ask for brochures, check out websites, etc.?
Also regarding your comment about going to school out of state, if you are going to a college not in your home-state, would that school really send representatives to your highschool to get information out about rush? That sounds difficult to accomplish.
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My point exactly! (Though I probably didn't state it well.)
If you're going to a school out of state, or one that isn't the usual pick, you *won't* get a bunch of people telling you what its campus greek life is like, or even that they have one. Sure, many campuses send out info *listing* that they have greek orgs, often buried among other campus orgs and activity groups, but that doesn't mean that a person knows what a sorority truly is. Or especially what greek life at that campus is like-- strong or dwindling, party-heavy or service-oriented, cooperative or competitive, etc.
Not all campuses send out info on recruitment. Many do, if the recruitment is in fall, but many don't if it occurs in spring. How many times do we hear people saying that they didn't know they *had* to rush as a freshman to get a chance, that they *had* to solicit their own recs, that they could find a local alum panhel org to make contacts to get those recs, etc.
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Originally posted by Shark In Skirt
Perhaps girls who are for the most part uninformed about rush would make great GLO members, but I would much rather take the girl who, of her own intiative, went through rush well informed rather than the one who didn't know what a sorority truly is up until a few days before rush.
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Possibly, but I'd rather have someone who was the *right fit* for my org and didn't know much about the sorority system before she signed up, than someone who researched the whole thing, thought she'd be a perfect fit for our group, and *wasn't* a good fit at all. Rec or no rec.
As for knowing what a sorority truly is? I'd wager that many of us didn't *really* know what a sorority truly is until we'd finished our pledge periods, been initiated, and been a dedicated and loyal sister for a few years. I was in a local sorority, and while it was nice, I don't keep in touch with most of those women. OTOH, having been alum-initiated into ADPi a few years ago when that chapter went national, and having been involved with the chapter during the past year, I see the whole system with different and new eyes, and find myself excited to be a sister to those collegians.
Yeah, maybe your greek system at your school attracts a lot of women to recruitment, but that doesn't mean that it works at other kinds of schools in other parts of the country with other greek systems. And I think we'd get a lot of great women if it was better advertised to those who don't just want to be the traditional sorority-girl stereotype, or those whose families went greek in school, or those who are great campus leaders but who were turned off by the stereotypical frat-mat image. I really think we're missing out on some quality people. Sure, at some schools, these are the women that you get through COB, but how nice it would be to have them rush in the first place!