Did you choose the wrong sorority?

[Drolefille]

Consider your sample here, you're talking to collegiate sorority members and alumnae who are either active or are at least active enough to participate in a sorority website years after their collegiate membership.

COB or formal, it's not going to really reflect here because of your population.

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Consider your sample here, you're talking to collegiate sorority members and alumnae who are either active or are at least active enough to participate in a sorority website years after their collegiate membership.

COB or formal, it's not going to really reflect here because of your population.

Yes and no. COB doesn't necessarily only mean COB immediately after formal. Many chapters who struggle with numbers COB year round. I would guess there are many women who come to GC who went through informal or were COBed and didn't go through formal recruitment.

And I think you can love your sorority and still wonder if you made the right choice. When my own chapter closed, I wondered if I had made the right choice.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

Yes and no. COB doesn't necessarily only mean COB immediately after formal. Many chapters who struggle with numbers COB year round. I would guess there are many women who come to GC who went through informal or were COBed and didn't go through formal recruitment.

And I think you can love your sorority and still wonder if you made the right choice. When my own chapter closed, I wondered if I had made the right choice.

Going through COB or informal only has nothing to do with actually knowing people in the other sororities.

As far as a chapter closing and all that, if you want to think be at odds with someone, it's more as the women who are running the sorority on a national level rather than the sorority (historically or presently) itself. See: "If Bush gets re-elected I'm going to Canada." Pretty much everyone who said that didn't follow through, because they still appreciate what America was founded on and the opportunities that are here. NO sorority is without a traumatic chapter closing or two or 10 and a lot of it is just what personalities are where at what time. The only instance that I can think of truly thinking the sorority as A WHOLE was the wrong choice is back when groups still had white clauses and a chapter tried to initiate women of color.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

Yes and no. COB doesn't necessarily only mean COB immediately after formal. Many chapters who struggle with numbers COB year round. I would guess there are many women who come to GC who went through informal or were COBed and didn't go through formal recruitment.

And I think you can love your sorority and still wonder if you made the right choice. When my own chapter closed, I wondered if I had made the right choice.

You're missing my point. By asking this on GC you're selecting a population that might not represent the whole population of sorority members, collegiate or alumnae.

Were one to do a survey of all members, there's going to be a different response than people who have chosen to participate, often representing their letters, on a greek website.

[thetaj]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

You're missing my point. By asking this on GC you're selecting a population that might not represent the whole population of sorority members, collegiate or alumnae.

Were one to do a survey of all members, there's going to be a different response than people who have chosen to participate, often representing their letters, on a greek website.

Yeah, it is a skewed sample, but I don't think she is trying to get an accurate representation of everyone Greek; just wants to hear our personal stories.

As for me, I am so in love with everything Theta.

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by thetaj

Yeah, it is a skewed sample, but I don't think she is trying to get an accurate representation of everyone Greek; just wants to hear our personal stories.

This.

I just find people's stories fascinating whether it is on GC or elsewhere. I thoroughly enjoy the recruitment stories (past and present) and hearing about all the individual experiences people have as Greeks.

[honeychile]

No. I will forever bleed azure blue & white.

But I do wonder if I cut chapters along the way in Recruitment where I might have made friends, if not loved enough to lose my tunnel vision!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by thetaj

Yeah, it is a skewed sample, but I don't think she is trying to get an accurate representation of everyone Greek; just wants to hear our personal stories.

As for me, I am so in love with everything Theta.

Of course, I get that, I'm just saying that's why she's getting no one saying OH YES ME! And probably won't get an answer to her speculation that COB might be different than formal. Because those people aren't likely to be here