Recruitment at Pitt

[hookem2013]

How is rush at the University of Pittsburgh? Is it pretty intense/difficult to get a bid? What about rushing as a sophomore? Also, I was looking at their greek life website and there are a lot of chapters there that don't seem to be very well-known/prevalent in the southern schools, which chapters are the better, more well-known chapters at Pitt?

[33girl]

No one is going to give you "reputation" advice on GC, and if you're looking for a sorority experience like you would get at a southern school, it would behoove you to attend elsewhere.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

No one is going to give you "reputation" advice on GC, and if you're looking for a sorority experience like you would get at a southern school, it would behoove you to attend elsewhere.

LOL you got that right!

[kddani]

Originally Posted by 33girl

if you're looking for a sorority experience like you would get at a southern school, it would behoove you to attend elsewhere.

Just saw this and just saw the OP's prior post about rushing at UT.

Totally, utterly different worlds.

[kddani]

Rushing as a sophomore is 100% not a problem at Pitt. There may actually be more sophomores than freshmen that rush.

It's not a cakewalk, but it is not nearly as competitive as big recruitment schools. If you give every house a chance, you will very likely get a bid. Over the past 7 years since I graduated, all of the sororities have really upped their game. For example, everyone took quota this year during fall recruitment, and there will be NO spring recruitment for the first time that anyone can remember. There used to be a strong divide between the "top" chapters, the middle and the bottom, but those lines are now heavily blurred. Reputations are b.s., particularly at Pitt which is a large school where there is a lot of diversity of opinions, and a lot of non-greek idiots who just pass on old rumors or reputations but know ZERO about any of the orgs. Almost all of the sororities are pretty strong right now.

Recs are generally a foreign concept. There's not many legacies going through, so be sure to mention. I don't think any houses will write you off for being a legacy to another house.

[hookem2013]

Thanks kddani for your insight!

[ta kala]

Originally Posted by hookem2013

How is rush at the University of Pittsburgh? Is it pretty intense/difficult to get a bid? What about rushing as a sophomore? Also, I was looking at their greek life website and there are a lot of chapters there that don't seem to be very well-known/prevalent in the southern schools, which chapters are the better, more well-known chapters at Pitt?

As someone who is very familiar with the organizations at Pitt and has experience with southern schools as well, I'm surprised to see this. While Pitt has several chapters that thrive in the Northeast, the others have pretty solid national (and southern) reputations.

[33girl]

^^Yes, I understood some that she was talking about, but I thought saying there were "a lot" was, well, a lot of ridiculous.

Nobody QFPed the last post.

[Xidelt]

I transferred when I didn't get a bid. Everyone knows you go to school to join a top tier sorority and get your MRS degree. Its important to get that man in this tough economy!

[LadyLonghorn]

Originally Posted by hookem2013

How is rush at the University of Pittsburgh? Is it pretty intense/difficult to get a bid? What about rushing as a sophomore? Also, I was looking at their greek life website and there are a lot of chapters there that don't seem to be very well-known/prevalent in the southern schools, which chapters are the better, more well-known chapters at Pitt?

For someone who was so upset about Texas sororities relying on PNM reputations to determine who gets invited back and receives a bid, you have a lot of nerve coming here to ask strangers about the reputations of sororities at another school. It's obvious that the reason she's so interested in southern sororities and reputations at Pitt is because she had an unsuccessful rush at Texas this year. http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...26#post1842326. Thank goodness KSUViolet QFPed her original post there before she deleted it after she made this post. Gee, I wonder why she tried to delete it?

What good would it do to transfer to a school with an "easy" recruitment only to get a bid from one of those "lesser" sororities? She couldn't try to transfer back to Texas and get in through the back door via affiliation.

[hookem2013]

LadyLonghorn, why do you care so much? Looking at your past posts, it looks like you take a lot of time going back to look at what people have posted before just to come back and rub it in their faces. Yes, I did have an unsuccessful rush at Texas, and no, I am not planning on transferring to another school and coming back to Texas. I would never choose a school just because of their greek life. Like most people should, I am actually going to college to get an education, not to be in a sorority. I actually did get a bid through continous opening bidding and decided to decline it, because after much thought and after a difficult rush, greek life at Texas is something I decided was too much for me. My sister is at Pitt and that is why I was wondering. Thanks though for your feedback LadyLonghorn! Happy thanksgiving to you too!

[kddani]

Originally Posted by hookem2013

LadyLonghorn, why do you care so much? Looking at your past posts, it looks like you take a lot of time going back to look at what people have posted before just to come back and rub it in their faces. Yes, I did have an unsuccessful rush at Texas, and no, I am not planning on transferring to another school and coming back to Texas. I would never choose a school just because of their greek life. Like most people should, I am actually going to college to get an education, not to be in a sorority. I actually did get a bid through continous opening bidding and decided to decline it, because after much thought and after a difficult rush, greek life at Texas is something I decided was too much for me. My sister is a junior at Pitt and that is why I was wondering. Thanks though for your feedback LadyLonghorn! Happy thanksgiving to you too!

I have to say, if LadyLonghorn is so wrong, then how was she able to guess the three specific sororities that you asked me about at Pitt? It was uncanny.

[hookem2013]

Originally Posted by kddani

I have to say, if LadyLonghorn is so wrong, then how was she able to guess the three specific sororities that you asked me about at Pitt? It was uncanny.

When did she guess the 3 specific sororities? I asked about those, because I know they are pretty well-known, well-established chapters at Texas and are also part of the very few that are at Pitt as well.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by hookem2013

When did she guess the 3 specific sororities? I asked about those, because I know they are pretty well-known, well-established chapters at Texas and are also part of the very few that are at Pitt as well.

I would assume in a PM. And there you go again (tm Ronald Reagan) with the overstating - "very few"? Get real. There are TWENTY SIX sororities in the NPC, and some of the "big 6" at Texas mean absolutely nothing at other schools across the nation.

If your older sister goes to Pitt, why are you asking random strangers on the internet for info on the Greek system instead of her?

[LadyLonghorn]

I care so much because it is people with attitudes like yours that continue to perpetuate the acrimony and angst in the Texas sorority system.

There are 11 NPC sororities at Pitt. Seven of those are also at Texas. But you only asked KDDani about the three that are in the UT "Big Six." I'll chalk it up to my amazing psychic abilities that I was able to tell KDDani via PM which ones you had asked about long before the last bunch of drivel you posted.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to watching a very frustrating football game with my family.