Fraternities at cornell - pros / cons

unamadre
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:15:35 +0000

I just joined this forum to try to get some solace, for my freshman daughter was rejected by all her top choices and dropped out of rush last Friday morning, before she even got to wear what we went out and bought for this torturous week. She has been in her dorm room for two days crying, for her two best friends are pledging their favorite house together. She didn’t even mind if she had been chosen in another sorority different from her friends, as long as she felt comfortable with girls she could relate to. After reading many accounts on different threads today, I realize just how superficial the whole process is. If you can pass the clothing and manicure test and make it to a round that they can get to know you for more than a few minutes, you can be lucky. I only hope she will branch out and connect with more girls like herself who aren’t entering the exclusive Greek system at Cornell. She was so thrilled with her school choice until this week, but now does not know with whom she will live next year (since her roommate is one of her best friends) nor how she will continue to have a social life, since she had been going to frat parties this past fall, but will not be included in mixers.