University of Alabama Fall 2014 NPC Sorority Recruitment

[OldOleMiss]

Knowing this family the way I do AGDee I seriously doubt that- aside from being a pretentious snot- this girl "looks good" on paper-- very pretty, great grades, high level of involvement, etc… I just honestly think she (and family) thought that just because she was top dog at her very small very exclusive northern prep school-- that every house "down south" would be clamoring for her. The mother actually asked me "how my house ranked" when I offered to write for her. Damn I should have just kept my mouth shut-- at the time I thought I was doing this girl and the family a favor considering they knew NOTHING about sorority life let alone SEC recruitment-- ah well as I said bullet dodged for the houses at Alabama and lesson learned for this alum!

[PinkSkyAtNight]

Originally Posted by OldOleMiss

Knowing this family the way I do AGDee I seriously doubt that- aside from being a pretentious snot- this girl "looks good" on paper-- very pretty, great grades, high level of involvement, etc… I just honestly think she (and family) thought that just because she was top dog at her very small very exclusive northern prep school-- that every house "down south" would be clamoring for her. The mother actually asked me "how my house ranked" when I offered to write for her. Damn I should have just kept my mouth shut-- at the time I thought I was doing this girl and the family a favor considering they knew NOTHING about sorority life let alone SEC recruitment-- ah well as I said bullet dodged for the houses at Alabama and lesson learned for this alum!

I have not been asked this question by any of the young women or mothers who've approached me for recs. However, I think all my muscles would tense up if someone asked me how my house ranked. It is revealing when a parent is participating and actually condoning this type of attitude. Parents should realize that they are hurting their kids by taking being anything other than "Panhellenic". Chances are, if the parents had a more hands-off aproach and a whatever happens, happens attitude, she might have hung in there and could have been happy with a bid tomorrow.

[lake]

Originally Posted by OldOleMiss

The mother actually asked me "how my house ranked" when I offered to write for her. Damn I should have just kept my mouth shut-- at the time I thought I was doing this girl and the family a favor considering they knew NOTHING about sorority life let alone SEC recruitment--

Wow, what a bitchy, ignorant thing to say to someone who offered to write a rec. People like this disgust me. So preoccupied with some perceived status, and they end up exposing themselves as shallow, ignorant ingrates with no class.

I think it would be an honor to get a bid from ANY chapter at Alabama, because it's so damn competitive. I just can't fathom how some people (idiots) assume that some groups there are "less than". Just wow.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by lake

I think it would be an honor to get a bid from ANY chapter at Alabama, because it's so damn competitive. I just can't fathom how some people (idiots) assume that some groups there are "less than". Just wow.

^^^^This. As Walker Percy says in Lanterns On The Levee, "Bottom rail on top." It's just so much better than saying "parvenu" because the ijits might actually understand it about thirty minutes after you'd have left.

[AOIILisa]

Originally Posted by OldOleMiss

The mother actually asked me "how my house ranked" when I offered to write for her.

What an entitled ass! I'm glad the daughter won't be in any of the sororities, as you said, bullet dodged.