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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
And I'm going to make a somewhat ridiculously relativistic point.
Even if we took the statement at it's somewhat offensive level, one could still argue that what the southern girls were groomed for was as important to their long term quality of life as the girls groomed for competitive colleges, assuming they accepted the values of the culture they were raised in.
Obviously, an elite education in certain fields is more universally valuable than joining a top-tier GLO at Bama. But if you're going to settle down in Mobile, your general quality of life might be better as a former Phi Delta Theta or a Kappa from Bama than if you were a graduate of Princeton.
It's provincial, sure, but not everyone gives a flip about elite colleges.
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I very much agree with this. If the GLO you joined in college is a major reflection of your status in the South, the college you attended is a major reflection of your status for me. I'm not saying one is more important than the other - I'm of the opnion that anyone can get a fantastic education anywhere, depending on your attitude and work ethic. My friends at Ivies could dick around for four years and emerge useless just as easily as someone at UA could. That's not the point here.
Hardly anyone in the area of New England I grew up in cares if you went Greek in college, or if so, what group you joined. It would never come up in conversation. They've probably never even heard of your GLO if it's not one of the super well-known ones. And honestly, it wouldn't be out of place for them to look down on you for being greek - the negative stereotypes are pretty intense. However, it is a very big deal where you went to college, especially at the grad level.
So, to mirror your closing statement, not everyone gives a flip about affiliation... and in fact, most won't (for me). My Greek friends in the Hopkins engineering school laughed when I talked about putting Kappa on my resume. For them, listing their GLO would be worthless, and at worst, hurtful to their chances of landing a job. Not judging, just repeating (verbatim) what they've told me.
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