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[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

Jinx! We hit at the same time!

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

Please don't - I rather like it.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Please don't - I rather like it.

Don't you mean "Tichou rather likes it"?

[Titchou]

Or rather as my Cajun relatives would say "I like it, me!"

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Or ever admit it if she did!

This is what I don't get. I would personally be MORTIFIED to admit (or rather, allow my mother to admit) that I used such a service to my friends, let alone the New York freakin' Times.

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by 33girl

This is what I don't get. I would personally be MORTIFIED to admit (or rather, allow my mother to admit) that I used such a service to my friends, let alone the New York freakin' Times.

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

Indeed!

[Greek_or_Geek?]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

AzTheta thinks AXOrushadvisor and Titchou are spot on. AzTheta likes referring to AzTheta in the third person. But it is a lot more tedious to type out than simply using "I". So AzTheta is reconsidering this affectation.

I'm pretty certain she does that to improve her search engine rankings. The algorithms are partially based on the number of times you are mentioned on third party sites. She's been a big spammer in the past on my organization's Facebook page as well as the NPC pages and I've even seen her show up on local alumnae group pages too. I'm not sure what she has been doing lately since I blocked her a long time ago for her tiresomeness.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Who watched Sorority Girls? Someone needed to tell THOSE girls that we don't need to see everything god gave you during rush.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by 33girl

This is what I don't get. I would personally be MORTIFIED to admit (or rather, allow my mother to admit) that I used such a service to my friends, let alone the New York freakin' Times.

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

I swear I spit my drink on my computer screen when I read this.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek?

I'm pretty certain she does that to improve her search engine rankings. The algorithms are partially based on the number of times you are mentioned on third party sites. She's been a big spammer in the past on my organization's Facebook page as well as the NPC pages and I've even seen her show up on local alumnae group pages too. I'm not sure what she has been doing lately since I blocked her a long time ago for her tiresomeness.

Google/Twitter leads me to believe she is in an MBA program at Carnegie Mellon.

[Munchkin03]

The same people who are paying for these consultants (at least in the Northeast and the Atlanta suburbs, some of which are made up predominantly of people from the Northeast) are the same people who probably paid for their kids to have college admissions consultants.

There's a class of Americans who are used to farming out everything; if this wasn't your experience or your world, like it is for most of us, this is just one more of those things.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I mean isn't part of the whole point of Southern or preppy or what-have-you privilege the fact that you don't talk about it?

Yes, but the people using these services are trying to become part of that culture rather than already having been part of it.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

LOVE!

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

The same people who are paying for these consultants (at least in the Northeast and the Atlanta suburbs, some of which are made up predominantly of people from the Northeast) are the same people who probably paid for their kids to have college admissions consultants.

There's a class of Americans who are used to farming out everything; if this wasn't your experience or your world, like it is for most of us, this is just one more of those things.

I worked with tons of kids in Atlanta teaching SAT prep, which was absolutely unheard of in my part of the world when I was in high school. You've hit the nail on the head. Some of these kids probably have coaches for wiping their behinds.

[gatordeltapgh]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

Google/Twitter leads me to believe she is in an MBA program at Carnegie Mellon.

That is correct. She is enrolled at Tepper at CMU.

The funny thing is that despite the reference of NPC, article never mentioned the NPC product that was launched in the fall. That is the only product I would use if I were a PNM because you are getting the info from the source. Not someone who isn't hands on w Panhellenic everday!

http://www.recruitmentprep.com/

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The first rule of recruitment preparation club:
You don't talk about recruitment preparation club.

LMAO!!! *wipes water off monitor*

Originally Posted by shirley1929

What Tichou said. I'm not condoning it at all, but think about how appalled people were 10+ years ago when families started paying College Admissions Counselors for their assistance. Now, it's pretty commonplace for some groups of people. Can you find all that information online? Sure, but if I have the $$ to have someone else deal with it (and deal with keeping my child on a timeline) then why not?

Today it's the Rush Counselor - same song, different verse. Girls won't listen to their mother's advice, but they might listen to someone else. If mama has the $$, then she can put that task on someone else...

As my husband likes to say, "Wherever there's a deep human need, there's money to be made." It's true of the world's oldest profession. It's true of all these spammers peddling cheap Viagra. It's true of people who want to "help" young people get into top universities or parents who want their children to get into top universities. And it's true of people who want to "help" young women get into what they (the young women) consider top sororities. (And for the young women in question, all the advice you need is right here on GC for free.)