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Originally posted by 33girl
Maybe OVER THE US Chi O is one of the largest, but around this immediate area, as in alums that can get in their car and drive down the street to help, not so much. That was the point Danielle was making with Pi Phi. I'm sure they've got alums around here from their Penn State chapter too, but EVERYBODY from Penn State has alums in Pittsburgh.
And to be blunt, comparing CMU and the Ivy League schools just doesn't work. It's not just because the Ivy League schools are academically challenging that they have their reputation, it's the old boy network (or the perception of its existence) you get from those schools too. I would not say the same thing about CMU.
Plus, the Greek systems at U Penn & Cornell and the Greek systems at Harvard and Yale are WORLDS apart. Harvard doesn't even recognize the sororities officially.
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Carnegie Mellon Grads don't stick around Pittsburgh after graduation, even the few who are actually from Western PA. Because CMU doesn't necessarily have strong alumni associations in every major city, it is important that both the men's and the women's fraternities (and at CMU most of the female groups ARE women's fraternities) who are there are known for alumnae networking.
And completely irrelevant but necessary to know, there were quite a few Harvard bigwigs involved in our colonization process. We don't place chapters that aren't in accordance with university administrations.
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