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Originally Posted by littleowl33
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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I missed this post earlier.
Please let me be clear: if we are talking about certain really exclusive chapters, it might be the case that your particular GLO really does matter for the rest of your life.
But as libelle noted, to get into those chapters, you probably already have the social standing that they are associated with. Getting a bid isn't transformational.
You were groomed for it; you got it.
But for most of us in the south, it's great to be Greek, but it's not life defining.
Similarly, you associate with people from less selective colleges. Their lives have not been crippled because they went to state schools.
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