A sign of the end times?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5247479/Consultants-paid-hundreds-help-girls-SORORITY.html
That reads like an article from The Onion.
I really am taken aback that the daily mail is cited so many times on CC. It is like TMZ or something you would find in the checkout line at your supermarket LOL, indulgent fun for soundbites about trash celebs but hardly news. What we can say though is that it has dominated the web’s trashy corner. That Is no small feat.
Here is an article from 2012 about prepping for sororities and consultants. Its not from the Daily Mail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html
Good grief, no wonder I do not favor the Greek system. Definitely not my kind of people! A definite reason for students to check on the influence of Greek life on a campus. Hard for those who want to get in but don’t in those places. Too bad some state flagships include it as many students need to go to them for getting the best, most affordable education.
My D probably could have used some help during her sophomore year at Dartmouth. What a horrible experience for her to be judged so harshly by other young women. I encouraged my two younger children not to apply to Dartmouth or anywhere that had such a huge Greek presence. Not a fan!
“Ms. von Sperling offers a Friday-to-Sunday intensive, for $8,000.” Good grief.
I heard about stuff like this years ago. In fact it was at a meeting of my sorority alumnae group and we all laughed about it. A few schools have this kind of thing but not the majority. I know several young ladies who have pledged in the last few years and NONE have done this.
I am going to pass this along to D1 in case she wants to do a career change. I think she probably could be pretty good at it or as a wedding planner.
My daughter was in a sorority at UVA, definitely not a “top tier” one. No consultants, no letters. She had excellent opportunities to serve in a leadership capacity in her chapter and at the University level. The experience she gained served her well early in her career - she was able to demonstrate she’d successfully managed a large scale project. Spending that kind of $$$ would never have been an option, even if I had wanted to!
I know a few people who do this, so it isn’t a joke. Those in places that aren’t the SEC or sorority driven schools can’t really understand. I doubt anyone would ever admit to doing it though. When d was a senior we both had to go out and hunt down 2 letters of recommendations from each of the 17 sororities. I knew 1 person who said they were in a sorority, and that was it. My d went to a catholic high school where teachers thought that sororities were for wild girls and no one could help there either. She did hunt them all down eventually. It’s truly a miracle she landed in the sorority she did - she was out of state, knew no one and yes, girls in top tier sororities make posters and push forward the girls they know from their town or camps. She was the one girl accepted who didn’t have connections. Girls honest to God transfer schools if they don’t get into their preferred sorority. That’s why some schools go a little later, I believe Ole Miss - because girls transfer after early rushes to try again. Many girls have generations of mothers, aunts, grandmothers before them who were xyz sorority and they are groomed from birth to be an xyz. Being an xyz then gets you mixing with the “right” fraternities, and when you go home you join the xyz alumnae club, you do junior league and you marry the right guy. There are girls who seriously practice and join specific activities to meet the right people. Just like there are kids who do specific activities, clubs, classes to get into a college.
End of the day, my d got into a top tier sorority, never really clicked with it and this summer dropped. It was good for her initially out of state to get to meet girls, have connections, something to go do, but then after she met her own people, it just wasn’t for her.