Urban Legends About Recruitment

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

I don't think this is necessarily an urban legend in every case.

I'm well aware of one chapter where the father's occupation, the car the rushee drove, and the high school attended were deciding factors. The chapter had no qualms about asking this directly during parties which shocked more than a few rushees.

Originally Posted by lovespink88

A family friend told me that a chapter asked her what he dad did when she tried rushing. She was extremely turned off by it and said it was a reason that she dropped out.

Obviously I wasn't there so who knows for sure, but I don't think she would make it up, lol

I was asked this.

[Tulip86]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I was asked this.

I got asked this as well, only once though so it might just be the one girl who deemed it important or a good topic for conversation.


A chapter (of another group) at another university took it way too far though. A friend of mine has a very distinguished (double) last name that suggests wealth. Every summer while in college, she would be contacted by said chapter and asked if she was rushing because she "seemed like sorority material" (she never rushed, Greek life wasn't for her). She was also contacted whenever the chapter did COB.

She got so sick of being invited just because of her name, come spring junior year, when they called she told them she wanted to go to an event, but coundn't attend since she had to work, as her parents couldn't afford to pay for school (wasn't true, her family is actually quite affluent but as she didn't like to show her wealth nobody really knew). They never called her back.

Obviously this case is very extreme. So I do get where the "you must be very affluent to join XYZ" comes from, but in 99,9 % of times, it's nowhere near the truth.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

A chapter (of another group) at another university took it way too far though. A friend of mine has a very distinguished (double) last name that suggests wealth. Every summer while in college, she would be contacted by said chapter and asked if she was rushing because shee "seemed like sorority material" (she never rushed, Greek life wasn't for her). She was also contacted whenever the chapter did COB.

She got so sick of being invited just because of her name, come spring junior year, when they called she told them she wanted to go to an event, but coundn't attend since she had to work, as her parents couldn't afford to pay for school (wasn't true, her family is actually quite affluent but as she didn't like to show her wealth nobody really knew). They never called her back.

Obviously this case is very extreme. So I do get where the "you must be very affluent to join XYZ" comes from, but in 99,9 % of times, it's nowhere near the truth.

A friend of mine had this happen to her, only it wasn't her family's money, it was her looks. (She looked like Marilyn Monroe.) The "prettiest" group rushed her hard, but not in a manner that showed that they wanted her for what was inside, not outside...so she never went Greek.