Rush 101 Question from a Mom

[carbonbeach81]

What great advice from everyone! Her grades are spectacular, she's in National Honor Society and taking advanced classes, and is very close to the top of her class. She is involved with great activities at school, including community service with NHS, a mentoring program, and other activities, but so far hasn't had any leadership roles.

I've been reading the stickies and some posts out of curiousity. WarEagle07 also makes a good point that thinking about sororities too far in advance may prejudice her thinking...something I hadn't thought of. I'm normally not one to think of anything far in advance; however, my daughter, her close friends, and the respective parents visited their favorite college recently and were given a tour of a sorority, along with meeting a sorority sister (daughter of one of the Mom's friends), which prompted the interest, as you can imagine.

I was the most curious, wanting to know if things were still generally the same with rush now as they were back in the late '70s when I went to college. I wish I'd had the opportunity to follow through with rush, but with my father's passing, I had all I could do to stay in the college I was attending.

Thanks again everyone!

[carbonbeach81]

PeppyGPhiB -- I didn't want to give the impression I was a "helicopter parent." Our daughter is very independent and we've encouraged greater independence during high school, knowing she'll be going away to college. The curiousity, as I previously mentioned, was my own. Thanks, though, for the great advice, as I completely understand what you're saying.

[FSUZeta]

you didn't come across as a helicopter mom, just a mom remembering her own experience and wondering if things work the same way as they did back then.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by carbonbeach81

What great advice from everyone! Her grades are spectacular, she's in National Honor Society and taking advanced classes, and is very close to the top of her class. She is involved with great activities at school, including community service with NHS, a mentoring program, and other activities, but so far hasn't had any leadership roles.

Please go into school/recruitment knowing that it will be full of the same "top notch" girls, with stellar GPAs, tons of community service, AP classes, leadership positions, beauty pagent titles, etc etc etc.

And when you get a moment, read this.