UGA Recruitment

DotingDad · #1 08-17-2009, 10:27 AM

Let me begin by saying that while I am no stranger to a competitive and often heartbreaking Greek system (I pledged at Ole Miss), I have not before been exposed so intimately to the sorority side of things. Now that I have, I am so happy it is about to be over. A few days ago, I dreaded Bid Day, for it looked as if my daughter would be spending it alone while her new dorm friends were heading to their new affiliations dressed in white. Now it looks as though things will work out perfectly...but we learned alot along the way.
My chief purpose here is to impress upon any future readers of this site the huge challenge that is faced by PNM's who are not Georgia residents. More specifically, PNM's who don't have high school connections working for them on the inside of at least one sorority. I know that it's like that at many schools, but the phenomenon will become exponentially exaggerated at UGA as it becomes more and more a school whose admission is exclusive to Georgia residents (thanks to Hope Scholarship). Getting into UGA from out of state is a monumental accomplishment. Pledging a sorority of your choosing from out of state is no less than a miracle.
Congratulations to all of your girls who pledge today. Please impress upon them in your conversations with them over the next few weeks how important it is that they embrace those girls who didn't get an invitation today. These young ladies are likely victims of a numbers game and most of them, unfortunately, couldn't have changed the results of this process regardless of what they did differently.

minDyG · #2 08-17-2009, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by DotingDad

Let me begin by saying that while I am no stranger to a competitive and often heartbreaking Greek system (I pledged at Ole Miss), I have not before been exposed so intimately to the sorority side of things. Now that I have, I am so happy it is about to be over. A few days ago, I dreaded Bid Day, for it looked as if my daughter would be spending it alone while her new dorm friends were heading to their new affiliations dressed in white. Now it looks as though things will work out perfectly...but we learned alot along the way.
My chief purpose here is to impress upon any future readers of this site the huge challenge that is faced by PNM's who are not Georgia residents. More specifically, PNM's who don't have high school connections working for them on the inside of at least one sorority. I know that it's like that at many schools, but the phenomenon will become exponentially exaggerated at UGA as it becomes more and more a school whose admission is exclusive to Georgia residents (thanks to Hope Scholarship). Getting into UGA from out of state is a monumental accomplishment. Pledging a sorority of your choosing from out of state is no less than a miracle.
Congratulations to all of your girls who pledge today. Please impress upon them in your conversations with them over the next few weeks how important it is that they embrace those girls who didn't get an invitation today. These young ladies are likely victims of a numbers game and most of them, unfortunately, couldn't have changed the results of this process regardless of what they did differently.

This is great. Kudos to you for being there for your daughter, regardless of the outcome. You seem to have a level head about the whole process.