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Sororities at University of Oklahoma
staceface13
Registered User Posts: 8 New Member
in College Life
My daughter just got accepted to the University of Oklahoma and plans on rushing for a sorority. Which ones are the best on campus to rush? I have heard good things of the Pi Beta Phi girls, Chi Omegas and Kappa Alpha Thetas, but more input would be wonderful. Thank you!
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Replies to: Sororities at University of Oklahoma
She needs to visit the sororities during recruitment, TALK to the girls and see how SHE fits into the group. If you are familiar with any from your time in school, guess what? Things are different now. If she had an older sister who was in school 5 years ago, guess what? Things are different from even 5 years ago. As long as she is comfortable and welcome in her group, you should be pleased. And you'll be very surprised which groups were her favorites on day 1 of recruitment and day 5 - favorites change every day.
I hope you will be helping her with her recommendations. She'll need at least 1 - preferably 2 - for each group on campus (even the ones she/you might consider "beneath" her - they could be her favorites). You and she need to find alumnae of each group to write them. Doesn't have to be Oklahoma grads...could be from any school, as long as they're in the groups with chapters at Oklahoma. When you find 1 alumna, ask if she knows alumnae of other groups. You may also have an alumnae panhellenic in your city that can help with this, or at least may host a meeting to familiarize the girls with sorority recruitment and how to gather recommendations (recs). Many of them do it in the spring - January through May - so start looking now.
You do realize that your daughter doesn't get to unilaterally choose her sorority, don't you? Girls who go into rush thinking that they will only consider sororities XYZ, ACE, and FYI have a long history of being shut out of all the chapters and end up raging about how exclusionary they are when in fact it's the girls' own fault.
Go into rush with an open mind and consider all the chapters or don't rush at all.
Girls do not rush specific sororities. Rather, after every round of visits they rank a certain number of chapters and the chapters also make a list of the girls they would like to invite back for the next round. It's a mutual process. As a result, your daughter may be invited back to a chapter she wasn't interested in the day before or may be cut from a chapter she really liked earlier in the process. As Joblue mentioned, the key is to keep an open mind and always rank as many chapters as possible at the end of the round. If your daughter maximizes her options and sticks through recruitment to the very end, her chances of receiving a bid are MUCH higher than if she has her heart set on 2 or 3 sororities and refuses to consider accepting a bid from anywhere else.
At such a large school with such big chapters, chances are high your daughter could find girls she got along with in EVERY sorority at Oklahoma. Every chapter has smart, intelligent, wonderful women and you can hear good things about all of them. Recruitment is about finding the chapter your daughter feels happiest at, not the chapter that has the so-called 'best' reputation. I would advise both you and your daughter to look past the gossip and find a chapter that really feels like home to her!