Recruitment at Southern Mississippi

[momof2girls]

No she is not leaving USM. They have to leave immediately if they are released from the process. They stay in a dorm for the recruitment events. They have freshman week next week. She will be back but did mention to her mom that several girls that were released will not be coming back to the school at all.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by momof2girls

No she is not leaving USM. They have to leave immediately if they are released from the process. They stay in a dorm for the recruitment events. They have freshman week next week. She will be back but did mention to her mom that several girls that were released will not be coming back to the school at all.

That is so unfortunate.

I hear it's rough when rush is before school because you LIVE it that entire week (because there's nothing else going on).

Questions (because I'm curious):

What happens for the girls who drop out of USM entirely? Like, if someone were to leave school due to recruitment, what would they do? Do they just go home and apply to other schools for spring? I mean, it's too late at that point to go to any other school. Is it somehow considered more socially accpetable in some towns to NOT be in school than to NOT be Greek?


I have a hard time getting my mind around leaving school due to recruitment. My parents would have skinned me alive if I had shown up on their doorstep a week before school starts saying I'm not going because of recruitment.

My heart does go out to them though, it's got to be tough.

[BlueCarnation]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

That is so unfortunate.


I have a hard time getting my mind around leaving school due to recruitment. My parents would have skinned me alive if I had shown up on their doorstep a week before school starts saying I'm not going because of recruitment.

My heart does go out to them though, it's got to be tough.

I agree with you, but I am wondering if in the South the pressure is a lot different? I don't know, I'm asking. I do know of girls at Indiana that dropped out of school completely when they did not receive a bid. My parents would not have allowed me to drop out of school; you go to college to get a degree, and anything you do above that is icing. I loved my sorority experience, but all of this seems a bit much to me. My university had over 500 clubs and organizations. Surely there are other things that these girls can do, and their worth is not defined by being in a sorority. If these girls are given the message that they shouldn't be at a school because they don't join a sorority, that's pretty sad. My heart goes out to them too, and not because they got cut.