<p>I’ve just noticed that they always seem to be forgotten - the D had a mirror about co-ed societies that didn’t include them either.</p>
<p>I am a high school senior. Although I definitely want the experience of attending a co-ed college, I do want to belong to a women’s sorority. I have been a Girl Scout since kindergarten and have come to appreciate the value of single-sex organizations. Both of my parents and my older siblings were in Greek Life in college and are still involved to this day.</p>
<p>just a follow up - D did pledge a sorority in the fall - and loves it!</p>
<p>What was her rush experience like? Do you think that at her campus, the experience is a positive one for most students?</p>
<p>A belated congratulations to your daughter!!! I hope she is enjoying the sisterhood.</p>
<p>Bandit, I read “pledged” and I can tell you for a fact that it is full of B.<em>S. I was in a sorority at SMU during a period that she writes about, and the c</em><em>p she says about what went on to recruit football players is total B</em>*S. It was a small campus and if any of that was going on, trust me, EVERYONE would have known about it. </p>
<p>A greek system at a school like SMU or W&L is going to be totally different than one at a large state school. At SMU, a huge majority of people are greek, so socially, it is kind of what you do. My sorority had all different kinds of girls, smart and not so smart, pretty and not so pretty, whatever. I had a great time in college, didn’t become an alchoholic, anorexic slut or whatever is being said in this thread. </p>
<p>If my kids want to go greek, it will be up to them. I think that they have learned what our values as a family are, and I trust them to make good decisions.</p>
<p>How about some posts from people in this era…all this talk about the 60 and 70s is kind of useless in the year 2007</p>
<p>much has changed, and to say, well, y experience in 1956 was wonderful has no relation to what they are like now</p>
<p>do girls feel that the only way to have leadership skills is in a sorority? just wondering</p>
<p>I strongly doubt that anyone who was in college in 1956 still has kids in college.</p>
<p>I wasn’t even BORN in 1956. I graduated in the mid 1980s. I have been an advisor to several collegiate chapters of my sorority since I graduated at a variety of schools ranging from Ivies to privates to publics (our family have had a lot of moves due to the military). I know what the active sister issues were in the 80s, 90s and the new millenium. My D is now an active of a different GLO at a small school. I think I am completely qualified to speak on this subject.</p>
<p>Being in a GLO is not the only path to leadership, but at many (notice I don’t claim all) schools, the mover and shakers tend to be involved in Greek Life.</p>
<p>I’d heard that the Ivies had started sororities at Dartmouth and Yale. Any others?</p>
<p>I certainly don’t think it is the only way to experience leadership at a university, but I will say my daughter enjoys the many opportunities for philanthropy. She also likes the fact that there are a lot of activities to be involved with from her sorority and the whole greek life organization. From what I hear from her ( and she is a pretty forthcoming daughter) her experience is the opposite of what I read in “Pledged”. Please don’t judge these organizations based on that garbage.</p>
<p>Brown: Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta</p>
<p>Columbia:Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Delta Tau</p>
<p>Cornell: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau</p>
<p>Dartmouth: Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and 3 locals.</p>
<p>Harvard: Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma</p>
<p>Penn: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa</p>
<p>Princeton: Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi.</p>
<p>Yale: Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi</p>
<p>dartmouth now has a 7th sorority on campus- Alpha Phi (which came on campus winter 2006). The addition of the seventh sorority was to help make sure that each young woman gets a “home” in the rush process .</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006100501030[/url]”>http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006100501030</a></p>
<p>citygirlsmom, I wasn’t even born until the mid 60’s! I was in college in the 80’s!!!</p>
<p>How old are you!?!</p>
<p>That sounds really rude that I am asking how old you are, sorry!! ;)</p>
<p>I am really wondering though if you were in college in the 50’s! That would be wild, don’t you have a college age daughter?</p>
<p>I just wanted to point out that many intelligent, articulate, good natured and motivated “good girls” do indeed join sororities up north.</p>
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<p>dke, the Ivies differ in their attitude toward “starting” sororities. For instance, at Brown and Penn, the sororities are official, recognized campus organizations, with on-campus housing owned by the university. At Harvard and Princeton, the sororities are unrecognized and are not even supposed to use university-owned common spaces for meetings. So although female students at all Ivies may join them, they play wildly different roles on different campuses.</p>