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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
It may be surprising at colleges so elite and so selective, but there's a strong egalitarian vibe to the social scene at Harvard and Yale. The dominant ethos holds that everybody's a nerd of some flavor or another, so we should put the competition down when it comes to our social lives. Social exclusion/ranking is seen as very high school. It's also true that at HYP, as with pretty much every campus I've ever seen, you can tell the NPC groups apart by their members' hotness, even if you've been away from campus for four years. That alone is enough reason for the majority of female students to refuse to even consider joining. They think, I made it all the way to Harvard/Yale, just to be judged on my looks? No, thanks.
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Yeah, it's a lot better to be judged on how much money your family has for which final club you can get into. That's so much more egalitarian.
I just think that any selective college whose students put down the Greek system (or the final club system, for that matter) because it's "snobby" really needs to rethink their admission standards if the students don't see the ridiculous irony in that attitude.
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