Random: Recruitment

AOII Angel · #1 05-27-2007, 06:45 PM

KSUViolet....excuse me for sounding mean....I've just spent an hour reading old posts about Top Tier groups after reading BamaDad's recent thread. I just found one from UT that summed up Top Tier groups in big southern schools very succinctly. (Though the article was written to brag on these groups, it just made them sound shallow and silly.) I'm sure every NPC has a chapter like that out there, but that kind of mentality amazes me! Not to mention, having grown up in the deep south, I'm so sick and tired of reading about these "old families" who are made up of people who have never done anything personally to merit a second look. I'm sure some of these girls are great, but having the right rolex, the right haircut and a daddy who controls a Fortune 500 company does not mean you're going to be worthwhile.
Also, I do know girls who joined top tier groups at LSU. They were told how to dress, sent back to their rooms because they were wearing the wrong color shoes and many other snobby things. That's the truth about top tier....it's not always pretty!

dgdramadawg · #2 05-27-2007, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Also, I do know girls who joined top tier groups at LSU. They were told how to dress, sent back to their rooms because they were wearing the wrong color shoes and many other snobby things. That's the truth about top tier....it's not always pretty!

Well, during recruitment, if your shoes don't match your dress (and match what you're supposed to be wearing for the round) you're going to be sent upstairs to fix the situation. That's not just top tier, and it's not just LSU.

deadbear80 · #3 05-28-2007, 08:58 AM

I was a legacy to a sorority on my campus and went through Rush thinking about all of the things my Mom always said about her enjoyable sorority experience (and not thinking about the fact that she was in college 35 years before I was and at a different school no less!). Looking back on things, I thought that I had a pretty fair shot of getting into my legacy house (my Mom was a former President; but again at another school) and was absolutely crushed when I got dropped. Granted that was also a year this chapter could've filled to quota just with legacies. But I still found my home--and on bid day when I looked over at my legacy chapter, I saw a couple of girls from my floor (who I was not fond of) hugging their new sisters. And right then I knew that them dropping me was the best thing they could've done. I think had I joined that particular chapter I would've been a completely different person than I am now.

I did rush at a smaller school (but one with a fairly good-sized Greek system), but I definitely learned a lot about what it's like to be a legacy and the pressures that come with it. I know at the time I was dropped from my legacy house I think I was sad because I thought I let my Mom down. She handled things really well and I think she was just happy that I went Greek period--she told me that she didn't care which sorority I joined; she just wanted me to have great friends like she did in college. I know when I have kids (if they're girls), I would like for them to rush--but I'm not going to force it. I also think I put a lot of pressure on myself to get into the house I was a legacy too, which may have caused me to do things at that house that I wouldn't have (and shouldn't have) normally.

So I guess another myth would be: Parents put more pressure on kids to join their groups than their children do.

That obviously was not the case for me.

AOII Angel · #4 05-28-2007, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

Well, during recruitment, if your shoes don't match your dress (and match what you're supposed to be wearing for the round) you're going to be sent upstairs to fix the situation. That's not just top tier, and it's not just LSU.

Of course in recruitment that would happen...we had uniforms for each day that dictated your outfilt, shoes, jewelry, etc. I'm talking about everyday....going to class, to the library. And I'm not talking about shoes that didn't match...I'm talking about shoes deemed not good enough.

dgdramadawg · #5 05-28-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Of course in recruitment that would happen...we had uniforms for each day that dictated your outfilt, shoes, jewelry, etc. I'm talking about everyday....going to class, to the library. And I'm not talking about shoes that didn't match...I'm talking about shoes deemed not good enough.

Well, in that case...

That's just plain nuts.