Alabama Rush and First Cuts: Predetermined?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Y'all are new. You'll understand soon enough where these comments come from.

What are you thinking here? Are you going by which posters make the comments or that everyone eventually gets a greekchat tutorial in SEC elitist thinking?

It's true that chapters that focus on in-state girls from certain city miss out on great out of state girls, but it's also true that sometimes people decide that some of what makes them socially elite is only associating with their own group of folks. I think this is more prevalent with fraternity pledge classes than with sororities since you always make sure you get quota in sorority recruitment.

I don't think this is the way to go personally, but I would love to know if there's a correlation between return rates and percentage of out of state girls. I think there probably is on some campuses.

To be honest, since Bama is over 50% out of state these days, I think, I'd expect that all of the groups are opening up to out of state girls.

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

What are you thinking here? Are you going by which posters make the comments or that everyone eventually gets a greekchat tutorial in SEC elitist thinking?

It's true that chapters that focus on in-state girls from certain city miss out on great out of state girls, but it's also true that sometimes people decide that some of what makes them socially elite is only associating with their own group of folks. I think this is more prevalent with fraternity pledge classes than with sororities since you always make sure you get quota in sorority recruitment.

I don't think this is the way to go personally, but I would love to know if there's a correlation between return rates and percentage of out of state girls. I think there probably is on some campuses.

To be honest, since Bama is over 50% out of state these days, I think, I'd expect that all of the groups are opening up to out of state girls.

As a matter of fact, according to my count from the bid list, only one Bama' sorority had more PNM's from Alabama than not!! And even the one was over forty percent out-of-state. I think they've been opening up to out-of-state young ladies pretty good lately!!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

What are you thinking here? Are you going by which posters make the comments or that everyone eventually gets a greekchat tutorial in SEC elitist thinking?

The former.

As for certain groups taking a lot of people from certain areas, I honestly think to a degree, that happens at all kinds of schools. It may just be a little more obvious at places where the bid list complete with hometowns is printed and there are 1000+ people on it.

Re what Zillini was saying: is part of that because there's a huge $$ jump from public institutions (like UGA) to private institutions in the same state, so much so that staying in state really isn't feasible? I mean, my cousin actually chose her private school because after scholarships it was cheaper than Penn State. She didn't even think of going to, say Ohio State.