Why? Sophomore UGA story

33girl · #1 08-19-2008, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by vsgirl

wow...this gives me no hope at all. i am planning on transferring to UGA and rushing my junior year. i am not in love with the sororities at the school i am at now because they put such an emphasis of being greek, and if you aren't greek then you are judged. i don't want to be affliated with girls that are like that. i know some girls in sororities at UGA and they are so very sweet and friendly. thats what i want to be affliated with. now hearing that great sounding sophomore was cut gives me no hope at all.

If you are only transferring to UGA because you want to be in a sorority there, I would rethink this plan.

Did you actually go through rush at your school and meet the women, or are you making this judgement without any firsthand experience?

vsgirl · #2 08-20-2008, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

If you are only transferring to UGA because you want to be in a sorority there, I would rethink this plan.

Did you actually go through rush at your school and meet the women, or are you making this judgement without any firsthand experience?

No, I have been planning on going to UGA for quite some time, I go to a small college in central GA. I went through rush, got the wrong impression and decided not to go on. I still remain friends with my GC group, a few others as well. The girls in my GC group recieved bids and are active in their sororities, the other girls in those sororities don't even care to say hello to me or strike up a conversation whenever I run into them. I know they don't have a commitment to, but these are the same girls that introduced themselves to me and were quite friendly. I don't think you just forget someone that easily. I didn't offend anyone because I decided to not go through rush. I didn't tell anyone that I had a bad impression, I said that things were too crazy at the moment and I would try again at another point. Thats when I started to get the feeling that perhaps they didn't want anything to do with me because I wasn't greek.

33girl · #3 08-20-2008, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by vsgirl

No, I have been planning on going to UGA for quite some time, I go to a small college in central GA. I went through rush, got the wrong impression and decided not to go on. I still remain friends with my GC group, a few others as well. The girls in my GC group recieved bids and are active in their sororities, the other girls in those sororities don't even care to say hello to me or strike up a conversation whenever I run into them. I know they don't have a commitment to, but these are the same girls that introduced themselves to me and were quite friendly. I don't think you just forget someone that easily. I didn't offend anyone because I decided to not go through rush. I didn't tell anyone that I had a bad impression, I said that things were too crazy at the moment and I would try again at another point. Thats when I started to get the feeling that perhaps they didn't want anything to do with me because I wasn't greek.

Honestly, the women in the sororities met lots and lots of girls during rush. Even at a smaller school, after so many faces they all start to blur. You can't remember everyone who goes through. I would urge you not to take it so personally.

KSUViolet06 · #4 08-20-2008, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by vsgirl

I know they don't have a commitment to, but these are the same girls that introduced themselves to me and were quite friendly. I don't think you just forget someone that easily.

Something to think about:

I went to a small school where there were about 120-150 PNMs in recruitment every year, and even I had problems remembering girls from recruitment. That's ALOT of girls and yes, you do forget some of their names/faces. I've had plenty of girls walk up to me a few weeks after recruitment and say "Hey, you're ____ from Tri Sigma. How's it going? Remember me?" and I totally didn't. Not that I felt that they were insignifcant in any way, or beneath me at all, I just am really bad with names. When you meet almost 200 girls over the course of 4 days, they do start to run together.

Not to mention that once you receive a bid to a sorority (if these are new members you're talking about), you meet SO many new people in a short period of time that you have a hard time getting to know your own sister's names and faces, let alone remembering girls from your Gamma Chi group.

awkward1 · #5 08-20-2008, 09:27 PM

Some random UGA stats...
Student 1 - 1420 SAT 30 ACT AP and honors courses student council, honors student 3.4 unweighted gpa **rejected**

student 2 - 1320 SAT 29 ACT AP, Honors ,3.65 gpa, cheerleader, varsity lacrosse **rejected**

It may not be ivy league but it is no walk in the park to get into either. So yes, I do believe that most of the girls who are rushing probably are the cream of the crop from their high schools and could probably walk right into Vassar or Vandy.