A local sorority at USC?

[kaeb]

wow.

I'm not SC2013's sock puppet account. I met her while rushing her professional fraternity. We have a few mutual friends, but I don't know her very well. Also, we had different recruitments, and both posted pretty detailed recruitment stories, so I don't know why you think I'm her sock puppet account. I'm my own person with my own brain and my own life and I'm also in a PHC sorority, as I've established many, many times.

Here's my recruitment story if you still don't believe me for some reason: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=115609
Also, I joined in July 2010, she joined in December 2010... kind of weird timing for me to be her sock puppet, huh?

I'm not agreeing that the Greeks are horrendous at USC. I'm a Greek myself. I am saying that we have image problems, and that people, particularly non-PHC/IFC people, don't have a great image of us. It's easy to automatically associate PHC/IFC with all of the scandals that have happened recently, since they've gotten a lot of attention, not just on campus, but even nationally. I'm saying that I get where she's coming from, unlike most people (or so it seems). I also think that if she were in a PHC house, she would have a different perspective, but I get why she has the perspective she does.

I feel like a broken record here.

Sorry, I'd forgotten that she re-rushed. My apologies.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by kaeb

I'm saying that I get where she's coming from, unlike most people (or so it seems). I also think that if she were in a PHC house, she would have a different perspective, but I get why she has the perspective she does.

I feel like a broken record here.

We do get it. Your school really isn't that unique. I don't know of a single big Greek competitive school where the non-Greeks don't loathe the Greeks and take every opportunity to kick them.

The OP had a friend in the chapter who gave her a bid, someone she felt close enough to confide in that she wanted them to drop her. That tells me she had something in common with sisters in that chapter because her friend does. Among other things, they probably aren't great rushers. (Who would be if you're the chapter where people would rather gouge their eyes out instead of joining?)

The OP may have only considered herself a number on Alpha Chi's bid list, but you know what? If that chapter had dropped her before pref, she would have just been a number on the chapter she wanted's bid list. Because she wasn't high enough on their first bid list to receive a bid without guaranteed placement. There were more pnms they wanted more than they wanted her. Harsh but true.