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Originally Posted by carnation
A former student's mother told me that her daughter gained early admission to Georgia for next fall. She said, "I think she should wait until sophomore yeare to rush," and I sent the mom this thread with a note that if she wanted her child to have choices, maybe she shouldn't wait! (Mom isn't Greek and had no idea.)
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Last year I went to the Atlanta Panhellenic Info session with my daughter (mainly to go with a friend who was going to UGA) and a mother asked if it might not be better to wait until she got used to school to go through rush.
I wanted to scream "NO! It's not a good idea to wait to go through rush at Georgia". But they just gave her some song and dance about how she should make the best decision for her, blah blah blah. In my opinion, it doesn't do any good to have those sessions if you are not going to tell people the truth. It's hard anyway, and it will be a lot harder if you wait. Can you handle that? Then you make the best decision for you. But at least you know.
The growth of suburban Atlanta has put an entirely different face on greek life at UGA. There are some chapters that are very heavy on Lassiter/Pope, some full of the North Fulton girls, and the Parkview/Brookwood/Gwinnett schools, which doesn't leave room for others when they've got a block pulling for even more girls from their particular school. Looking at that list that Panhellenic put out after recruitment was quite interesting and it was easy to see how our school's girls have been "shut out" in the past few years.
Thankfully, I don't think many, if any, of my younger daughter's friends graduating this year are going to UGA. My first relaxing rush in 3 years!
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