Social resume for sorority rush

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

This is just ignorant. Members are recruited on grades and leadership
first and then looks, personality and background. Of course groups want the whole package. Everyone everywhere , from college admissions to dating to employers- wants the whole package.

Gross. This shouldn’t be a factor in any way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

This is just ignorant. Members are recruited on grades and leadership
first and then looks, personality and background. Of course groups want the whole package. Everyone everywhere , from college admissions to dating to employers- wants the whole package.

Comical. No. They’re recruited on who they know that’s already in the house more than anything.

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Seems a lot easier to just get a fake ID and go to the bars.

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Maybe they dropped because they realized how cruel and ridiculous the process is. Being judged based on what you wear, how you look, how much money your parents make, etc is cruel and mean.

and that is fine. They are not required to rush nor continue rushing.

This.. Sorority rush is VOLUNTARY. There is self selection in all groups in college, sororities or not. Not sure if rush is anymore cruel than trying out for a team and being cut?

It's entirely different! When trying out for a sport, I don't get to rank Football, Basketball, baseball, swimming and tennis as to which teams I'd like to join and wait for them to rank me back after 5 minute of speed dating 5 members of the team. Instead I would attend a tryout for the sport and go through workout, drills, playing the actual sport for several hours/days. If I have the skills I will make the team. are you actually comparing the qualities to be in a sorority (looks, makeup, dress, family background, who you are dating, etc. ) to be the same as the qualities to be on the baseball team (fast pitcher, great hitter, good fielder, fast runner, etc). Tryouts for a sports team are 90% quantitative and 10% if the coach likes your attitude/academic desire at the college level/non-quantitative things important to a team. Those who make the swim team are those who are fastest swimmers at the trials---there is no question who that is after the swim trials are completed.
Key point: I can work to make myself better at a sport.
In Sorority rush, I can't make myself prettier, change my family background or economic background, skin color, ethnic background or clothing (ie if I can't afford designer clothes I can't magically make them appear).

Just like in the real world, unless I'm a model, how I look should have no bearing on whether I get a job or not---only my qualifications to do the job should matter.

Yes, rush is voluntary. But when something is toxic for society, we shouldn't just say "it's voluntary, you just don't do it". we should work toward eliminating that toxicity.

Philanthropic service clubs that anyone with an interest can join could easily replace the "good work" that greek life provides.

So don't rush.

And be left out completely

Grow up, snowflake.

You deserve the vicious world you create and condone - Greek life is gross and it's amazing grown parents could defend it. It's exclusive and pathetic, paying for friends out of pure insecurity and conformity.

Best money I ever spent. I have a pre made network of women who share my values and experiences in wherever I am in the US. It was fun in college and fun as an adult.

Buying friends and excluding others!

I have always called it "paying for friends". Apparently we have a lot of adults who like to continue perpetuating this exclusionary horrible system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

This is just ignorant. Members are recruited on grades and leadership
first and then looks, personality and background. Of course groups want the whole package. Everyone everywhere , from college admissions to dating to employers- wants the whole package.

Unless you are a model (or something similar), it is illegal for employers to hire based on Looks.

[Anonymous]

any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

Anyone applying to private school and then elite colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

For one thing, it's school sanctioned

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

For one thing, it's school sanctioned

And rush is organized by the school. They could choose to be more humane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

For one thing, it's school sanctioned

And rush is organized by the school. They could choose to be more humane.

How many more years will it take for someone to hit a public school with an ADA or 1984 complaint based on rush?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

We’re not talking about the experience of being in one, we’re talking about the process of getting into one. It’s unnecessarily harsh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

For one thing, it's school sanctioned

And rush is organized by the school. They could choose to be more humane.

How many more years will it take for someone to hit a public school with an ADA or 1984 complaint based on rush?

I’ve seen rush TikToks and a disabled young woman with mobility difficulties would not easily make it from house to house in 90 degree weather.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

Anyone applying to private school and then elite colleges?

No, I’m not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes?

Anyone applying to private school and then elite colleges?

How many of those care about how you look or make you go through “rush”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:any discussion of greek life always devolves into this type of argument on this board. the fact is that if you talk to the girls in sororities they are generally happy with the experience, and they are also welcome to drop out at any time if they are not. Its a social club, why do we have to assign any more meaning to it than that? If the girls find their "home" great, if its not for them,, great. Why grown women (and possibly men) on this board care one way or the other, I simply don't understand.

For one thing, it's school sanctioned

And rush is organized by the school. They could choose to be more humane.

How many more years will it take for someone to hit a public school with an ADA or 1984 complaint based on rush?

Overdue. But when a school gets a reputation of having an especially brutal rush and moms start steering their daughters to the other major state U because of it (true story), a sorority will give a bid to someone with obvious differences (Down’s) for a PR stunt to show how “inclusive” are.