Did Where You Went To School Play A Part Of Going Greek?

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

I don't think I would have gone Greek if I had gone to a school with small Greek system. But the reason is that a smaller Greek school probably would have a smaller variety and diversity of GLO's. It's not that I have anything against the NPC orgs. It's just that the recruitment is different between NPC GLO's and ethnic GLO's.

I had attended Pitt my freshmen year, and was very anti-Greek because I believed a lot of the stereotypes about sororites. It also didn't help to be living in Holland Hall and one night seeing a group of women standing outside in jeans and bras, singing songs. I don't know what group this was, and it very well could have been a sports team or something else. But since it was in the quad where a bunch of the sorority suites were, I automatically assumed it was a sorority hazing. And I think I would have gone my whole life being very anti-Greek if I hadn't met a nice sorority member who came up to me and just started chatting with me.

And I think that's where the difference in recruitment made a difference for me. From what I've seen, it seems like with NPC, women who are interested are the ones who have to make the first move (going to the Greek Life office and signing up for recruitment). It's kinda like they have to pursue the sororities at first (by signing up with Greek Life), and then during the recruitment events, that's when the sororities are pursuing the PNM's. I know there are exceptions, like if a sorority member talks to her friend (during the time before she's prohibited) and convinces her friend to sign up for recruitment.

It seemed to me like a lot of people who are anti-Greek would stay that way. I know I would have never signed up for recruitment and given the sororities a chance, and at the time I didn't have any friends that were Greek. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with the way NPC does things. It works for them, and there are more than enough women who are already interested in sorority life that the sororities don't really need to pre-recruit (meaning like chatting up women prior to recruitment to get them interested in participating in recruitment).

So long story short, I'm glad I went to a school with a HUGE Greek community, because I was able to find something that was perfect for me and it's definitely changed my ideas about what sorority and fraternity members are like.