Carnation-Actually, outsiders may fare better than girls who are from the right families if there are hundreds of rushees. The girls who go in and select a group they like with no previous knowledge of "tier" can end up a lot happier than someone who goes in with her mind set on 1 or 2 sororities.
Again, you are so right. Of all the local girls that went through rush with my daughter, there was one, from the private school, who didn't make it into the one her two closest friends did.
She accepted her bid, but was soooooooooo heartbroken. She STILL just hangs out with the other two girls and only does the functions with her sorority. My young guy friend said that the three have not really made much out of their GLOS. That's kind of sad to me. Coincidentally, this year's rush saw an exodus from the sorority the two joined. I think they got one local girl.
James , we are considered "small time" socially by Baton Rouge's standards and I doubt NewOrleans even gives us a second thought. Our size is that of a decent city, but our work force has a lot of blue collars. MANY of our civic leaders are LSU alum, but our local businessmen are local graduates. When I first arrived it was explained that people were trying to recreate the New Orleans social scene. In fact out of our population it was said "You only need to know about 3,000 people." Like the rest don't matter!
I do know a lot about those 3000 people, and other than my weakness for GC, I am trusted to NOT gossip. (GAWD, I have to tell SOMEONE!!!) You are right, I would have to leave town or they would hunt me down like a dawg and pelt me to death with their dublooms!
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