Let's Be Honest Here.....

[ellebud]

I am totally aware that my sorority is considered a popular house at some universities and at others..not so much. In fact while I rushed at one school I had to transfer in my junior year to another university where I affiliated with my sorority. At my second school it was one of the top houses. At the second school there was another Jewish house which wasn't doing very well at all. (As an aside a former next door neighbor was a member of the second tier Jewish house at my second school: She wasn't my cup of tea..nor was I hers). My feelings here are in no way about a Jewish house being at the bottom just because it is Jewish. It is about a girl refusing to pledge F house because, despite the fact that there are nice women there...and she feels comfortable...and she likes them...the girl refuses to pledge because it is house F and the name cache is not there. PeaceLoveClass is a perfect example of how fate can step in and help you out.

[peaceloveclass]

Originally Posted by ellebud

PeaceLoveClass is a perfect example of how fate can step in and help you out.

Thanks! It's also, for me, one of those "if only you had known then what you know now" types of things. I'm so glad that I got cut by my top choice. I mean, they're a great group of girls, but I'm not sure I would have felt as comfortable or gotten as involved, or even if I would have stuck with it.

texas*princess, I agree with everything you said 100 times over. Although I can't say I ever believed I was "too good" for my sorority, my deciding factor when I did my final rankings was which sorority was the most popular. I just got lucky that "fate" intervened and I ended up where I did.

I just wish more PNM's would understand that, like KSUViolet06 said, the only place that popularity matters is in college. My mom always quotes that passage about "100 years from now, it won't matter what car you drove, etc." I don't remember all of it, but my point is, even 10 years from now, it won't matter what "tier" you were in. A lot of my younger friends have gone through Rush in the last two years, and the only piece of advice I will ever give them is to NEVER cut a sorority based on their stereotype or their popularity.