Why is Rush so Cut-throat on the Sororities' End at Big Greek Schools?

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A lot of people are probably saying the same thing:

At schools with established, competitive Greek systems, it can be very difficult for newer and smaller chapters to grow. At UGA, there were 18 groups when I pledged (although one of them did not participate in 2005 recruitment, so there are only 17 involved in recruitment now)... and it seemed that certain girls were always fighting over certain groups. I was told from the start that "XYZ, ABC, and GHI only pledge girls who grew up in the south, so you shouldn't bother with those houses" (and sure enough, 2 of the 3 cut my Yankee butt after round 1). Likewise, I was told that "DEF and JKL are the houses for girls who are really involved on campus" and decided to focus on those.

At a school with so many GLOs, I saw sororities compartmentalized a lot, and thus small groups of sororities competed with each other: the Southern houses competed, the Prom Queen houses competed, etc. It seemed to be not so much cutthroat on the whole, but cutthroat between particular groups of houses.