North Carolina Chapel Hill Recruitment

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by absum

I can tell you that it's not going to be an ideal situation, but it's by no means a lost cause. Not many Asians go through "white" recruitment at UNC and fewer get picked up. I have an Asian friend who rushed as a sophomore at Carolina and only got asked back to one house, one that apparently needed to meet quota badly and had a bad rep. It makes a difference if she was raised "white" or was adopted, or raised as the child of immigrants.

She'll have to try that much harder to impress during rush to offset being older (and only good for three years to a sorority, instead of four) and not white, but it's not hopeless...it's not an anomaly to have a few non-whites in UNC sororities, it's just not as easy for them to get a bid as it is for white girls. Her chances may improve if she's an North Carolina native, which gives her a better opportunity to be known specifically and peripherally by the mostly-NC sorority girls rather than be forgotten during bid sessions. The same goes if she has a high school friend or acquaintance in a UNC sorority already--some sororities end up being town- or high school-specific, with as many as four or even five girls from the same school in the same pledge class. Good recs are important too.

If she has a bad recruitment experience or ends up not participating for whatever reason in NPC life (drops out of rush, no bids, refuses a bid, whatever), it's worth knowing that a lot of Asians go into major- or interest-specific co-ed fraternities...my friend ended up in one and enjoys it immensely.

Good luck to her and to you!

How does one make up/impress for not being white?