UGA Recruitment - A friend's story

dukedg · #1 08-18-2006, 10:40 AM

There seems to be not only large variations in success, but also many chapters not at quota. What I mean is that usually there are one or two chapters that do not make quota and may be way off, but here there seems to be lots of chapters not making quota and a few way above quota.

Does UGA do things differently or did some anomaly happen this year? Just curious.

Drolefille · #2 08-18-2006, 10:47 AM

I'm also curious, the large variance in the numbers suggests that something may not be working quite right...

SIGKAP DAWG · #3 08-18-2006, 11:15 AM

Three of the girls I know dropped out of rush. One only was invited back to 4 houses 2nd round. She is Master 4-H'er, leader in her church, & school. Honor student with great grades. Beautiful inside and out. She is a tall girl , slim,not petite like alot of the rushees I saw. I think the sororities are to biased on looks in the first round. Also, alot of Sophmores are doing the conversations. More older sisters need to be involved in round 1. They have more experience, and can pick up on qualities that younger girls can't. I am off my soap box now. I would love to know what other people think?

PCAlphaSig · #4 08-18-2006, 11:18 AM

Delta Gamma snapped up to 31. My girlfriend is an alum and talked to a current member.

honeychile · #5 08-18-2006, 03:13 PM

Thank y'all for the updates!

FWIW, the few recs I've sent for UGA were for totally awesome women! Each of them had the whole package: GPA, talents, activities, looks, everything! It would have to actually pain sisters to release some of these women!

UGAalum94 · #6 08-18-2006, 05:41 PM

I too wrote recs for girls who dropped out. The impression I've gotten when I inquired about those who dropped was that the girls quickly formed impressions of which groups they wanted, and if/once they were cut by those groups, they figured it "wasn't worth it" to be greek. One girl even expressed her conclusion in financial terms: if it wasn't a group she was crazy about, then it wouldn't be worth the money in membership fees.

With some of the girls who dropped, I think it's a matter of feeling that they were the beautiful and popular people in high school, the top group in others' eyes, so they won't lower themselves to join any group that other people won't see as a top group.

Other girls might not have been sold on being greek in general, so if they don't get the invitations they want, they see it as an indication from fate that they aren't cut out for sorority life.

Having gone through rush and dropped out, then later joined through COB, I can say that I don't think there are any benefits to being greek at UGA outside of what your own GLO provides.

If you aren't the panhellenic rep or a rho chi, the times that your will mingle with members of other GLOs are pretty much determined by what particular group you are in.

Perhaps if there were more events aimed at bringing more groups together, instead of essentially having a pretty brutally tiered greek system, then more girls would give joining a lower tiered group a try.

I'd say the sisterhood in all the groups is good, but sisterhood is only one element that the PNM are looking for. Most of them are also looking for status and chances to meet cute boys.

dgdramadawg · #7 08-18-2006, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

With some of the girls who dropped, I think it's a matter of feeling that they were the beautiful and popular people in high school, the top group in others' eyes, so they won't lower themselves to join any group that other people won't see as a top group.

I think this is SO true about rush at UGA. The two girls I wrote recs for who dropped out still had options left at pref (even if they only had 1 or 2 options), but they seem to forget that EVERYONE who rushes at UGA is beautiful, smart, and well-liked, and they cannot all join the same houses.

I really do still believe that every group at UGA is a "top group" in its own way, for its own reasons. But then again, I didn't grow up in metro-Atlanta where certain chapter names seem to be the only ones girls hear about in high school.

SIGKAP DAWG · #8 08-18-2006, 07:24 PM

True they came from a big fish in a little pond. Now they are guppy in the Atlantic Ocean. Alot of girls can't adjust to that. I came from a small high school of 25 graduates in my Senior Class, joined a sorority to broaden my horizions and make new friends. Because of 4-H, I had about thirty girlfriends going through rush with me. In the 80's, more of the girls in the houses socialized with each other. Are the houses more "elite" now? I feel sorry for the girls that feel if they don't get what they think is the "top" house they don't want to be apart of another house. If they would be more open minded they would realize that the house that wants them, may be better than the one that they thought was "tops".

AnchorAlumna · #9 08-18-2006, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

With some of the girls who dropped, I think it's a matter of feeling that they were the beautiful and popular people in high school, the top group in others' eyes, so they won't lower themselves to join any group that other people won't see as a top group.

True at the University of Alabama, too.