question for all you southern belles ;)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by trojangirl1

say a girl rushes at a really non-competitive school, gets into ABC sorority, and is initiated. Then she decides to transfer to say UT Austin, where she never would have gotten a bid. She has a great personality, but she doesn't have any friends there/doesn't "look" like an ABC.

I know sororities can choose not to affiliate you, or they have to vote on it or whatever, but at my school I think it's a sure thing as long as you go through the process. At Texas, would ABC vote her in, but ostracize her/choose to not affiliate her/totally welcome her etc?

This is out of pure curiosity, by the way, and I'm sure there's no solid answer, but just your opinion. Procrastination at its finest hehehe

Even if you think it's a "sure thing" I'm sure there are people who have transferred to your school and either 1) chose on their own not to affiliate because they didn't feel uncomfortable with the chapter 2) were voted down for affiliation 3) were given the chance to affiliate technically, but never truly fit in and so they quit.

NO school is no noncompetitive that everyone who wants in gets in regardless of what the chapters think...if that's the case, then either the water supply at that school needs to be reproduced and shipped around the world as every single rushee at it is desired by every single group, OR the NPC chapters are not living up to their standards of membership selection.

Quite frankly, even if the girl in question was perfection in every way, if she joined a sorority at a small, noncompetitive school and enjoyed that experience, the culture shock might be so great going to someplace like UT that even if she WAS accepted she wouldn't want to be part of the Greek system period, let alone a certain sorority. Ditto the other way (going from Ole Miss to Dinky U). You'd feel more comfortable going from, say ZTA to DZ at SEC U, than you would going from ZTA at SEC to ZTA at Tiny FootballHating College.

This is why I always crack up when people trying to colonize say "I met all the ABCs at State U and they are EXACTLY what we need here at Podunk U!" They don't realize it is the PEOPLE they liked and not the letters, and that if there's a scarcity of suitable women at Podunk U, just bringing in ABC is not going to magically transform them.