Twins

ufpiphi · #1 09-22-2007, 11:04 PM

At UF this year, there were several sets of twins who went through recruitment. Of these sets, 3 of them requested to be in the same chapter. And I do mean requested. Panhellenic actually instructed the chapters to either invite back both or neither girls from a set of twins who desired to be in the same chapter.

cuteASAbug · #2 09-22-2007, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ufpiphi

At UF this year, there were several sets of twins who went through recruitment. Of these sets, 3 of them requested to be in the same chapter. And I do mean requested. Panhellenic actually instructed the chapters to either invite back both or neither girls from a set of twins who desired to be in the same chapter.

Wow. Can panhellenic really do that? What ended up happening to those girls?

honeychile · #3 09-23-2007, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ufpiphi

At UF this year, there were several sets of twins who went through recruitment. Of these sets, 3 of them requested to be in the same chapter. And I do mean requested. Panhellenic actually instructed the chapters to either invite back both or neither girls from a set of twins who desired to be in the same chapter.

I know that others will disagree with me, but if that's what they truly wanted, I see nothing wrong with this.

fantASTic · #4 09-23-2007, 12:38 AM

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I know that others will disagree with me, but if that's what they truly wanted, I see nothing wrong with this.

Agreed. They know they're limiting their options, so they get to accept the consequences of that decision.

violetpretty · #5 09-23-2007, 01:37 AM

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Agreed. They know they're limiting their options, so they get to accept the consequences of that decision.

They don't know they're limiting their options, but they will get to accept the consequences.

KSUViolet06 · #6 09-23-2007, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ufpiphi

At UF this year, there were several sets of twins who went through recruitment. Of these sets, 3 of them requested to be in the same chapter. And I do mean requested. Panhellenic actually instructed the chapters to either invite back both or neither girls from a set of twins who desired to be in the same chapter.

Wow. I mean it IS their perogative, but this is just weird to me. It also goes somewhat against the concept of mutual selection. I mean, how would this work with prefs and bid matching? They can't be ranked together as ONE person on sororities' bid lists, so one would theoretically have to end up above or below the other. What would happen if one of them received a bid to their #1 choice and the other to #2?

fyrnymph · #7 09-23-2007, 08:50 AM

I think it is better for the GLOs to know that they want to pledge as a duo - no sense wasting an invitation to one if she won't accept without her sister receiving one.

Leslie Anne · #8 09-23-2007, 11:24 AM

I agree. As long as the twins were willing to accept the consequences, I don't see a problem with it.

My chapter had several twins. If anyone read my retro story, the girl who said "hi lady" was an identical twin. I would have asked her if she remembered but I didn't know which one she was. Our chapter president my senior year also had pledged with her twin but the twin ended up transferring. Finally, we had a whole group of 5 sisters in my chapter; one set of twins (not identical) and their 3 sisters. They were amazing girls. I just loved them.