I don't care if I offend you, Greek & PNMs- Listen Up!

[KSUViolet06]

What in the "I just got home and there's a 4 page thread" hell?

Cliffnotes?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Cliffnotes?

[Old_Row]

We have given them a chance the first time they rushed. They didn't meet our criteria then for whatever reason and they won't meet our criteria the second time around after quitting another chapter. Unless something has dramatically changed. Like they cured cancer.

[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

What in the "I just got home and there's a 4 page thread" hell?

Cliffnotes?

Cliffnotes:

ClosedMinded thinks that we're all meanies for telling sophomores who rush at SEC uber-competitive recruitments that they're going to have a hard time getting into a chapter, especially if they went through all/part of recruitment last year and didn't like the results.

She'd like us all to advocate for different MS criteria and raise Totals so that we can pledge sophomores and juniors without having to unfairly cut them just because of their class standing.

She also refused to listen to any of the rational rebuttals we've provided, and thinks she knows what's best based solely on her own highly unusual experience at a "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment".

That's about it.

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by LAblondeGPhi

"very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment".

This made me LOL.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by LAblondeGPhi

She also refused to listen to any of the rational rebuttals we've provided, and thinks she knows what's best based solely on her own highly unusual experience at a "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment".

I'd really love to hear where this "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment" is. Mid-Atlantic might be possible, but New England? Really?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I'd really love to hear where this "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment" is. Mid-Atlantic might be possible, but New England? Really?

Dartmouth. Although if that's the vantage point she's coming from, she has NO clue what she's talking about (i.e., from what I've read, Greek life functions are open to everyone, not just Greek members). She lso fails to see that it's the administration, not the actives, keeping things "exclusive" by refusing to allow as many sororities as a Northern campus with a large amount of Greek interest could maintain. (That is...Northern schools usually have 15 chapters of 70 each as opposed to a Southern school with 7 chapters of 250 each.)

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I'd really love to hear where this "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment" is. Mid-Atlantic might be possible, but New England? Really?

I would too! I grew up in New England, and I can't think of even one school that's "very competitive". I never heard anyone talk about Greek life EVER while I was growing up. I graduated from a high school that had nearly 4000 students, and I can only think of MAYBE 5 people I know who joined a social GLO.. And all but one of them are guys.

Greek life just isn't "a way of life" up there.

[28StGreek]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I'd really love to hear where this "very competitive New England/Mid-Atlantic recruitment" is. Mid-Atlantic might be possible, but New England? Really?

My 2 cents: The only really competitive school (from what I have heard talking to my cousin) that I can think of thats in New England is Cornell. She was really surprised how 'Southern' recruitment/greek life was there. Especially for an Ivy League school. But I'm not trying to imply that is in the same league as the SEC.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by 28StGreek

My 2 cents: The only really competitive school (from what I have heard talking to my cousin) that I can think of thats in New England is Cornell. She was really surprised how 'Southern' recruitment/greek life was there. Especially for an Ivy League school. But I'm not trying to imply that is in the same league as the SEC.

And again, that is competitive for a different reason - not because the women are 4th generation ABCs and all know each other from HS.

[Shellfish]

Originally Posted by 28StGreek

My 2 cents: The only really competitive school (from what I have heard talking to my cousin) that I can think of thats in New England is Cornell.

New York is not part of New England.

[AZTheta]

Two words: Gettysburg Address.

Or, as my favorite writing coach told me: "tidy it up!"

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

Or, as my favorite writing coach told me: "tidy it up!"

Or...."Kill your darlings."

[DubaiSis]

I've said it before and undoubtedly will say it again, if it's YOU getting cut, it's COMPETITIVE. She went through an extremely competitive rush FOR HER. It didn't go well, and again if my guess was right, it wasn't resolved positively until a chapter colonized in her junior/senior year (VCU maybe?) and then she lived happily ever after.

But I think it's a vast presumption that the sororities, even at the super duper Greek schools cut all girls in the scenarios given. Sophomores and even junior girls DO get offered membership at those schools. They have to be the whole enchilada with extra sauce, but even if that girl did have a lousy first rush and she did accept the bid to "that house" which she eventually dropped out of, she could STILL get a bid next time. Even at super duper Greek school. It's just not common, and that's where we advise girls to not get their hearts too set. Yes it CAN happen, but you better be ready for some cuts because the IT chapter on campus will have 200 whole enchiladas with extra sauce to choose from.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Darn. Too late for the chicken man.