Culture for Girls at Southern Schools

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Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

This is so sad.
- a redhead

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Echoing a few earlier posters. If Rice is appealing, she should absolutely look at W&M as a more accessible option. They were my antithesis-of-sorority-culture daughter’s two favorites; she found both Rice and W&M to be full of “friendly smart kids”.

I’ll be the third to encourage a look at WM.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

I just don’t understand how this still exists. I definitely get the appeal of friends and parties, but not to the point of exclusion. I’ll crawl back into my little hole now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

This is so sad.
- a redhead

Total BS., the pic in the article has like 1 blonde, mostly brunettes, asian and they aren't particularly skinny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

This is so sad.
- a redhead

Total BS., the pic in the article has like 1 blonde, mostly brunettes, asian and they aren't particularly skinny

Not BS. This is real. I didnt say all sororities and I never said Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

This is so sad.
- a redhead

Total BS., the pic in the article has like 1 blonde, mostly brunettes, asian and they aren't particularly skinny

Not BS. This is real. I didnt say all sororities and I never said Vanderbilt.

But if your daughter isn’t in the sorority how would she really know what the selection process is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

This is so sad.
- a redhead

Total BS., the pic in the article has like 1 blonde, mostly brunettes, asian and they aren't particularly skinny

Not BS. This is real. I didnt say all sororities and I never said Vanderbilt.

But if your daughter isn’t in the sorority how would she really know what the selection process is?

DP.

You have NO idea how status and appearance-focused many of these groups are.

It isn’t pretty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

That may be that sorority, or Greek life in the SEC, but there are all types of people at these schools. Even at Alabama, Greek life is only 36% and with so many kids from out of state, girls don’t have to deal with certain aspects of southern culture if they don’t want to.

[Anonymous]

It's terrible and present at almost all southern schools. Vanderbilt, UVA, SECs are the worst offenders. Some schools like Rice do not have this problem, but most do. Extremely shallow people and rampant, deep-seated lookism.

[Anonymous]

Consider looking west? Stanford, Cal, Pomona, UCLA? USC has a touch of the $/looks/greek culture but much less compared to their old days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

That may be that sorority, or Greek life in the SEC, but there are all types of people at these schools. Even at Alabama, Greek life is only 36% and with so many kids from out of state, girls don’t have to deal with certain aspects of southern culture if they don’t want to.

Wrong

At Alabama you deal with the dumbest of dumb.

Sending a DD to the state that gave us Tommy Tubby is truly ridiculous.

Laws in Alabama if your daughter gets raped in campus oh so lovely.

This goes for Ok, MO, MS, and AK absolutely dumb decisions to send a daughter to one of theses states in our current political climate which Project 2025 is coming in fast DD will not he safe.

Not to mention how utterly dumb financial decision to send any kid zoOS to a red state at this point in time. Jobs will not be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory is very Asian, possibly the most “Asian” of all the medium-sized private Southern universities. However, UGA and GA Tech also have a very large cohort of Asian/Asian-American students. UGA is large and Diverse enough that everyone can find their niche and their people outside the Greek scene.

Not the OP, but my daughter is Asian, but very much not the Asian sorority type. I am curious about Emory in particular because it's one of the schools we are considering but she doesn't want a place where lookism culture dominates. How is Emory for culture generally? I know at every school there are different scenes, but wondering ifthere enough of an authentic and kind or intellectual scene at Emory for all types to be happy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's terrible and present at almost all southern schools. Vanderbilt, UVA, SECs are the worst offenders. Some schools like Rice do not have this problem, but most do. Extremely shallow people and rampant, deep-seated lookism.

To me this ties into “party/ frat culture” at the school. The shallowness intensifies the more the frat culture intensifies and the inclination for academics declines. Major gap culturally between an UT Austin/UNC vs Ole Miss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

That may be that sorority, or Greek life in the SEC, but there are all types of people at these schools. Even at Alabama, Greek life is only 36% and with so many kids from out of state, girls don’t have to deal with certain aspects of southern culture if they don’t want to.

Wrong

At Alabama you deal with the dumbest of dumb.

Sending a DD to the state that gave us Tommy Tubby is truly ridiculous.

Laws in Alabama if your daughter gets raped in campus oh so lovely.

This goes for Ok, MO, MS, and AK absolutely dumb decisions to send a daughter to one of theses states in our current political climate which Project 2025 is coming in fast DD will not he safe.

Not to mention how utterly dumb financial decision to send any kid zoOS to a red state at this point in time. Jobs will not be there.

Your last paragraph is factually incorrect.

For better or worse, and for reasons having little to do with politics, red state economies have been outperforming blue states in job growth and income growth.

Probably going to continue due to climate, COL, tax and regulatory burdens, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs to go to college in a major city. LA, Boston, NY.

All the girls at the SEC schools we toured seemed really, really happy, even the ones that dod not look like a stereotypical 'Bama sorority rush poster.

If she liked the southern university, let her apply and see what happens. She might meet some really kind, happy, interesting friends at those places.

That's because in the south girls are taught to smile constantly, no matter how happy or unhappy. As I was.

No.

They were all just nice kids.

What a naive response. At the SEC school where my daughter attends, she said there are sororities which will recruit only blondes. Of course they have to take in the occasional brunette here and there so not to make it too obvious, but the unsaid requirement is that you have to be blonde. So nice, right? So nice.

That may be that sorority, or Greek life in the SEC, but there are all types of people at these schools. Even at Alabama, Greek life is only 36% and with so many kids from out of state, girls don’t have to deal with certain aspects of southern culture if they don’t want to.

Wrong

At Alabama you deal with the dumbest of dumb.

Sending a DD to the state that gave us Tommy Tubby is truly ridiculous.

Laws in Alabama if your daughter gets raped in campus oh so lovely.

This goes for Ok, MO, MS, and AK absolutely dumb decisions to send a daughter to one of theses states in our current political climate which Project 2025 is coming in fast DD will not he safe.

Not to mention how utterly dumb financial decision to send any kid zoOS to a red state at this point in time. Jobs will not be there.

Your last paragraph is factually incorrect.

For better or worse, and for reasons having little to do with politics, red state economies have been outperforming blue states in job growth and income growth.

Probably going to continue due to climate, COL, tax and regulatory burdens, etc.

Actually...it's no comparison if you look at nominal GDP by region vs. just looking at %age growth. Blue states dominate. Hence, why the only states that actually receive less funding from the government than they provide in revenue are blue states.

Also, many of the actual areas that outperform within a Red State are Blue areas. Atlanta almost singlehandedly powers GA economic growth.

67% of the highest growth regions of the US are in blue areas...again, some may be located within Red States.

Finally, the top destinations for recent college graduates, even in places like the Southeast are cities like NYC, DC, San Fran, etc. NYC is by far the most popular destination for college grads from the southeast.