Thoughts on sorority life?

twoinanddone
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 23:14:27 +0000

My understanding is that typically the higher ranked sororities are the “prettier” girls. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

I don’t think you are right about this. I was active at a house that is now #1 (not when I was there). If you look at the webpage or the videos, it looks like beautiful blondes who are all legs and pep. If you actually go to the house and meet the current residents, it’s a much different picture It’s full of athletes, top engineering students, student government reps, journalists running the school publications and video output, etc etc., all shapes and sizes and even some brunettes. They are all lovely but not all the Barbies they are made out to be. My nephew’s girlfriend is not stunning, just average, but a top engineer and she’s in this house. As was her sister. Her younger sister picked a different house.

When they are doing Rush, they usually have 4-5 days to meet the PNM, convince them to join, decide which would be the right fit for the house. Nope, no lifelong friendships are forms in those 4 days. A lot of decisions are made off the stat sheet with activities, gpa, legacy status, goals - gee, much like the admission to the college with the actual rush parties serving as the interview.

We had one small group that were in the pledge class just before me. They were all in the same dorm (not roommates and not on the same floor) and went through rush together, joined the same house together, and always were the best of friends even though one transferred to a different school after sophomore year and one spent a year abroad for junior year. Last week they did spring break together posting ‘Our 43 year Reunion’ on FB. Who knows if they would have stayed friends for 43 years if they’d just had the dorm in common.