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Originally Posted by ChildoftheHorn
I can see your point.
The problem is that there can be a lot of division based on money.
The school honestly is a school of higher end labels and if you are one of those people that are not part of that group....I could see why they would be a little ticked. I will say that the school, overall, does do a good job with making sure that everyone there can afford it and gives money when people ask for it.
One thing I have seen is that the school is divided with people "for greek" and people "against greek" with a small percentage in between. Though the sentiments lie with being anti-greek, he did represent some of the feelings and opinions of the school.
Honesty, I think that a lot of the anti-greek sentiments are from a lack of understanding and/or a bad experience.
The whole greek system represents some of the best students on campus, but it is definitely a closed and private system. Whenever there are groups like that (Masons, Elks, etc.) people start to think impossible things, usually not good ones. Most people who want to be in the system can IMO. It is stupid to have your heart set on one certain place because you will end up where you are meant to and be happier with it.
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My point wasn't about financial aid.
Look, I went to two universities that could be considered "peer institutions" of Northwestern. The things that were said about the Greek system being elitist, "buying one's friends," etc., were the exact same things we had to face up against during Recruitment. The irony--or maybe hypocrisy--of that situation is that it's hard to call someone else out for being elitist when you're attending an Ivy or another highly selective institution.
That's what I was discussing--and then you went off on this weird tangent.
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