Thoughts on sorority life?

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:33:00 +0000

You have to trust your child

My younger D shocked everyone by joining a sorority in college. All her high school friends were shocked because she was the one person they thought was LEAST likely to go Greek. (Her sister and mother thought that too.) D chose to join a sorority because she was in a largely male major (math) and just wanted some opportunities to meet more women, find female friends and be able to have some destressed down time around other women. She still has some friends from the sorority whom she stays in contact with.

I second momofsenior1’s suggestion to set some ground rules. My D had to pay her own dues and for any trips/vacations with her sorority sisters (which meant she had to have a job to pay those dues). She also had maintain her grades. (Which she did since she had post-college ambitions for professional/graduate school. In fact, she became the house GPA monitor and designated tutor-- which gave her a seat on the sorority’s governing board.)