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Originally Posted by Lovethesand
My daughter has friends in various sororities throughout the country and I'd like to share some of their recruitment thinking which boggles the mind:
1. Almost all have visited THAT website and read what THAT website says about tiers, rankings, who is good, who is awful, etc. per THAT website. Even when told to disregard THAT website by this forum or others that website is already in their heads and the damage may already be done. I talked to a PNM who knew nothing about Greek life and she talked about that website. Once she found out about it from another PNM she visited it religiously. She read every single post about fraternities, sororities, etc. and that was her Greek bible. She even had her mom hooked on it and as she went through recruitment she referred back to THAT website. I told her and her mother there was a lot of vile garbage there and she should keep an open mind. Her daughter told my daughter that it was a bunch of old women telling them to ignore THAT website. I unfortunately think a lot of these young adults share that same sentiment about THAT site (it's the Bible) and those who tell them it ignore it (clueless, out of touch).
2. Tent talk is huge. Even when told to close your ears and not listen to tent talk the tent talk is rampant and girls hear things. Not as vile as #1 above but a similar vein.
According to my friends and their daughters half seemed to have made their minds up before they even went to school based on social media. The other half seemed to be heavily swayed by tent talk. One girl said "nobody wants to be in THAT house, they're all awkward (seems to be the current negative word)". If they can't have what they want then they'd rather do without all together. Maybe it's a princess generation but open-mindedness doesn't seem to be a strong trait for some.
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This is SO true! Another fallout from this year's Recruitment is girls not accepting their bids. They preffed a house, ranked it and on bid day when they opened their envelopes....they just didn't show up at the house afterwards. The houses didn't know what to make of it. Lots of preparation (and money) had gone into bid day festivities at trampoline parks, movie theaters, farms, etc. including transportation arrangements. Lots of TIME had gone into making door decorations for dorms, nametags and crafts for new ''babies", etc. Not to mention the fact that they waited and waited before going to these places to make sure no one was left behind. It's so incredibly RUDE to just ignore a group of women that stuck their neck out for you and extended a valuable invitation to join their sisterhood. If these girls that think they are too good for the house where they were offered a bid expect to do well in next year's recruitment, they have another think coming (as my Dad would say!) Sororities talk.
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