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.

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.

+1

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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.

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.

None of which demonstrates PP’s claim that it’s “an utterly dumb” financial decision to send a kid to a red state bc “jobs will not be there.”

That’s just silly.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

+1

Alabama gives merit that some of us can't turn down. Is that so hard to understand?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Beat it, Dobbs dork.

[Anonymous]

There are thousands of girls at college. No they aren’t all like these stereotypes. The majority of it is limited to sororities at southern colleges. But that is a small percentage of the total girls on campus. Sure, there is less of this culture in sororities (and overall) at say, University of Chicago. But pretty much any college is going to have a variety of different types of people and your daughter will find her people wherever she ends up.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice is very weird and nerdy like CMU. Emorys students are similar to Georgetown, like a mix between Georgetown and Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is very preppy like Duke but with more attractive students, and Duke is Duke.

Your take on Rice is clownishly incorrect.

NP. The above wasn't my take, but since my kid is headed to Rice in the fall, I'm curious to hear your take (and what your connection to Rice is.) Please share -- thanks!

I went to Rice for a grad school a long time ago after getting my undergrad at the top LAC and the undergrads I met at Rice were on average just much smarter. Difference was quite noticeable. Their college system was nice too. Met my spouse there as well but we moved back to the coast because of TX. I would send my daughters there if they got in and it was not TX, not going to do that now that TX has become even less progressive.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

+1

Alabama gives merit that some of us can't turn down. Is that so hard to understand?

Alabama also has some great space and tech jobs.

[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.

Is it posdible your daughter is just repeating stereotypes that don't hold water?

"All" and "only" quantifiers are a very middle school way to process things.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Appearance focused is fairly standard (for just about everyone). Cutting people by hair color is not.

[Anonymous]

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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?

All of these posters here who only focus on the looks of southern college students, deriding their intelligence and morals because they are pretty and happy, are the worst elements of the "lookism" culture.

They cannot see beyond appearances, and are willing to deride enormous swaths of young women simply for being pretty.

It is a very ugly narrow mindedness.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No it is not.

If what you are saying is true, then nyc colleges would be packed with kids from Florida and Alabama.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Appearance focused is fairly standard (for just about everyone). Cutting people by hair color is not.

Your daughter is probably not being accurate, and repeating rumors with no basis in facts.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No it is not.

If what you are saying is true, then nyc colleges would be packed with kids from Florida and Alabama.

I am actually stating the results from a survey done by a company that focuses on college grads.

NYC was the #1 destination for college graduates in the Southeast by a large margin (I think Atlanta was #2, DC was #3, Chicago was #4).

Could be that kids attending college in the Southeast are from other places, like the Northeast, and don't stay in the Southeast.

Where you work a job is different than where you attend college.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Is it posdible your daughter is just repeating stereotypes that don't hold water?

"All" and "only" quantifiers are a very middle school way to process things.

No, literally she was told by one of the members that she was "lucky" that she got in because they like to have blonde girls be the majority of their house. However, since she has a pretty face and a good number of Instagram followers, she made the cut. She didn't last long there. That's how shallow some of these girls are. My other daughter is in another sorority (Midwest) and it's not like that.

[Anonymous]

If you want to live in a world where looks don't matter, you're going to need to find a different species to belong to. Greek system or no Greek system.

Humans have always, and will always, care a great deal about physical appearance.

PS. anyone can be blond if they know a good colorist.