University Cheerleader With Down Syndrome Denied From Every Sorority on Campus

[33girl]

Supposedly (per that other site) this was her second time rushing, and she withdrew on her own because she didn’t like the chapters she got.

It’s just as discriminatory to assume that because of her Ds, she’s a wonderful person who can do no wrong, as it is to release her solely because of it.

Also I wonder if her mom and sister (who went to competitive Greek schools) obtained recs for her, which most likely would have helped immensely.

And can we stop the fiction that cheerleaders are always guaranteed sorority membership?

[PhilTau]

There's a reason that 80 percent of George Mason University graduates are employed within six months of graduation. It's because 80 percent (or so it seems) of the student body are already employed while attending school - a very big percentage employed by federal agencies in the DC area. Many are in some way "sponsored" by the various agencies. The GMU graduates I have known and worked with are (as a group) extremely serious people and very career oriented and motivated. They will usually stay with the agency that has paid their tuition. Of all the people I've known who attended GMU as undergraduates, none belonged to a fraternity or sorority (or at least admitted it to me) and they all had flexible schedule jobs with federal agencies while they attended college. They were not night students. I also doubt many of them attended a single Greek function - even though they were the same age as the typical undergraduate student. The expense of Greek life likely prevented them from joining those groups, though they were the type of people the Greek organizations would love to have.


What I'm trying to say here is that GMU is not the typical four-year college.

[APhi2KD]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Supposedly (per that other site) this was her second time rushing, and she withdrew on her own because she didn’t like the chapters she got.

If you find any more info on that, please do post it. If that’s the case, her family should be ashamed to suggest she was dropped because she has Down’s.