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Old 10-20-2008, 12:39 AM
Elephant Walk Elephant Walk is offline
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Do people in the South not leave their respective hometowns/states after college? I would think that they do. Wouldn't that change things if the place you move to doesn't consider XYZ to be 'top tier." Or is the social scale of your hometown the only one that matters? Yes, these are serious questions.
It's a very interesting question, and I would say yes...

For example, here at Arkansas, Phi Delt has alot of Highland Park kids. Kids in high demand for sure. Phi Delt's is one of the better fraternities, but isn't SAE/SX/KE. I would argue that part of the reason that Phi Delt pulls so many high quality kids from HP is because Phi Delt is so very strong SMU. With this, SAE/Phi Gam/Phi Delt do well in rush from Texas because of the strength of those names at Texas schools.

Very few of my people from my hometown high school left the state for school. It's unfortunate, but it's true. (to your first question)

Furthermore, if you do go out of state then your social standing doesn't really matter...you know? You're sort of that lost child. But if you stay in state, you could climb socially.

I understand where she's coming from. She feels like she raised an upstanding woman...if her daughter didn't make it into a top-tiered sorority, she feels like she failed raising her properly. It comes back on the mom. It's like raising a serial killer, you feel like you failed as parents. Sorority rush is the litmus test of proper raising. I sympathize with the situation.
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