It’s sorority video season

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Anonymous wrote:People are using or ridiculing these videos along political lines. It isn’t that deep. They are girls having fun. Leave it at that.

I think people are triggered by the beauty, confidence, and exclusivity (ergo money).

Fact of the matter is they're just having fun and overachieving girls at this age are geniuses at social media production and curation. It's not like they spend all day doing this.

It's also a cope to smear these girls as gold digging "Mrs Degree" bimbos. These wealthy sorority houses are full of Type A hyper-ambitious cute UMC and rich gals who will become medical doctors, engineers, girl boss c-suite track, lawyers, dentists, nurses, accountants, Hill staffers, and teachers.

Two examples on both sides of the political aisle: Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), age 53, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house, before heading to law school. Alabama U.S. senator Katie Britt (R), age 43, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house and president of the college's student gov, before heading to law school.

You mean sitting at her kitchen table talking in her submissive baby voice Katie Britt? I mean, sure, that’s check out, but no one’s impressed.

Do you have a BA and JD? Passed the bar? Worked for a law firm? Two kids? Married? U.S. senator by age 40?

No. You're just some miserable malcontent posting on a message boarding on a workday morning.

All of that just makes it that much more pathetic that she went along with that silly kitchen table bit. Still not impressed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:People are using or ridiculing these videos along political lines. It isn’t that deep. They are girls having fun. Leave it at that.

I think people are triggered by the beauty, confidence, and exclusivity (ergo money).

Fact of the matter is they're just having fun and overachieving girls at this age are geniuses at social media production and curation. It's not like they spend all day doing this.

It's also a cope to smear these girls as gold digging "Mrs Degree" bimbos. These wealthy sorority houses are full of Type A hyper-ambitious cute UMC and rich gals who will become medical doctors, engineers, girl boss c-suite track, lawyers, dentists, nurses, accountants, Hill staffers, and teachers.

Two examples on both sides of the political aisle: Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), age 53, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house, before heading to law school. Alabama U.S. senator Katie Britt (R), age 43, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house and president of the college's student gov, before heading to law school.

You mean sitting at her kitchen table talking in her submissive baby voice Katie Britt? I mean, sure, that’s check out, but no one’s impressed.

Do you have a BA and JD? Passed the bar? Worked for a law firm? Two kids? Married? U.S. senator by age 40?

No. You're just some miserable malcontent posting on a message boarding on a workday morning.

All of that just makes it that much more pathetic that she went along with that silly kitchen table bit. Still not impressed.

They don’t give a shit about what you think. DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These young, powerful women are “celebrating Truth, Patriotism and their Beauty once again.”

What is patriotic about this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So much jealousy on here. Who wouldn’t want to be young, hot and rich.

+1. And these girls are beauty and brains and connected. They're landing the best internships and job offers, getting into medical and law schools, dating to marry the highest status boys, and graduating with honors. Think what you want but they're the total package. The ethos of these top sorority houses is ruthless Type A overachievers with a soft smile.

At schools with ~80% acceptance rates? Lmao.

[Anonymous]

The parents commenting on here gushing about the physical attributes of these rando women they don't know doing silly tiktok dance trends are weird. They are not you or your kids and they are not doing anything important or noteworthy, calm down, no need to ride so hard on behalf a bunch of rando kids you don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are using or ridiculing these videos along political lines. It isn’t that deep. They are girls having fun. Leave it at that.

I think people are triggered by the beauty, confidence, and exclusivity (ergo money).

Fact of the matter is they're just having fun and overachieving girls at this age are geniuses at social media production and curation. It's not like they spend all day doing this.

It's also a cope to smear these girls as gold digging "Mrs Degree" bimbos. These wealthy sorority houses are full of Type A hyper-ambitious cute UMC and rich gals who will become medical doctors, engineers, girl boss c-suite track, lawyers, dentists, nurses, accountants, Hill staffers, and teachers.

Two examples on both sides of the political aisle: Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), age 53, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house, before heading to law school. Alabama U.S. senator Katie Britt (R), age 43, who was the president of her tailgate state sorority house and president of the college's student gov, before heading to law school.

You mean sitting at her kitchen table talking in her submissive baby voice Katie Britt? I mean, sure, that’s check out, but no one’s impressed.

Do you have a BA and JD? Passed the bar? Worked for a law firm? Two kids? Married? U.S. senator by age 40?

No. You're just some miserable malcontent posting on a message boarding on a workday morning.

All of that just makes it that much more pathetic that she went along with that silly kitchen table bit. Still not impressed.

They don’t give a shit about what you think. DP

I know they don’t, but I still get to have an opinion.

The more I think about that ridiculous speech, the more the dancing girl videos make sense. So many of these girls will just continue to be pawns to advance the agendas of powerful conservative men.

For the record, even Republicans thought that Katie Britt speech was a disaster:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reaction

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So much jealousy on here. Who wouldn’t want to be young, hot and rich.

+1. And these girls are beauty and brains and connected. They're landing the best internships and job offers, getting into medical and law schools, dating to marry the highest status boys, and graduating with honors. Think what you want but they're the total package. The ethos of these top sorority houses is ruthless Type A overachievers with a soft smile.

At schools with ~80% acceptance rates? Lmao.

Right? Never seen the college forum defending a bunch of Zonies like this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This discussion is why students in the Northeast are leaving in droves for southern schools.

Except they are not. The total number of NE kids at all the SEC kids isn’t more than 15k and it averages about 5% of their student body.

At the same time, kids from the south make up around 15% of the student body of selective northeast schools and 20% of Chicago.

Also, applications to places like UConn, Pitt, UMass, UMD exceed most southern schools by a decent margin and have seen 35% - 50% growth over the last three years.

Does your # include kids from DC, MD, and VA?

And does your # include schools in NC and SC?

I find it really interesting that dcum tends to give certain places a pass while essentially blacklisting others…as if NC and SC (and heck let’s face it, VA schools) are somehow different/better than GA, AL, TN, etc. (wasn’t this thread about AZ?).

Anecdotally, I know tons of kids from well-educated, liberal families who opted for SEC schools. I admire kids who are confident enough to step outside the liberal bubble and experience something very new and different for college. And the Greek thing is just one option for extroverts and joiners…two qualities that don’t tend to be very common in Dcumlandia.

Anyone else think it’s weird that we are supposedly outraged by judging people by their appearance, etc. except when it’s a young girl all dolled up on a sorority rush video? Then apparently it’s game on. Not nice.

PP mentioned kids from the NE, not the mid-Atlantic. SEC schools are where they are. I believe University of South Carolina is in the SEC, so there is one.

Why would I provide numbers for geographic regions that were not the subject of the prior post?

Also, it doesn’t seem any of these videos come out of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake…so it’s hard to bring them into the discussion.

Dcumlandia is in the DMV. We are in the mid-Atlantic, yet I’ve heard many people lump us into the NE or East Coast like it’s a bizarre flex. I mean, we are a fantastic area: affluent, educated, and diverse…but not as progressive as some might assume…especially these days.

I have kids at SEC schools. I have relatives at ACC and other schools (including Duke, Wake, and Clemson). Their sorority girls are the same: thin, well-groomed, stylish, fun, and bright.

I know doctors and lawyers and academics who were in sororities…including from SEC schools. I know judges who graduated from SEC undergrad and some even continued with southern schools for law school. Others landed in top ten law schools.

I know a frat boy from a school everyone would consider subpar who scored so high on the LSAT he will easily land at a top las school.

Your bias is absurd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is why students in the Northeast are leaving in droves for southern schools.

Except they are not. The total number of NE kids at all the SEC kids isn’t more than 15k and it averages about 5% of their student body.

At the same time, kids from the south make up around 15% of the student body of selective northeast schools and 20% of Chicago.

Also, applications to places like UConn, Pitt, UMass, UMD exceed most southern schools by a decent margin and have seen 35% - 50% growth over the last three years.

Does your # include kids from DC, MD, and VA?

And does your # include schools in NC and SC?

I find it really interesting that dcum tends to give certain places a pass while essentially blacklisting others…as if NC and SC (and heck let’s face it, VA schools) are somehow different/better than GA, AL, TN, etc. (wasn’t this thread about AZ?).

Anecdotally, I know tons of kids from well-educated, liberal families who opted for SEC schools. I admire kids who are confident enough to step outside the liberal bubble and experience something very new and different for college. And the Greek thing is just one option for extroverts and joiners…two qualities that don’t tend to be very common in Dcumlandia.

Anyone else think it’s weird that we are supposedly outraged by judging people by their appearance, etc. except when it’s a young girl all dolled up on a sorority rush video? Then apparently it’s game on. Not nice.

PP mentioned kids from the NE, not the mid-Atlantic. SEC schools are where they are. I believe University of South Carolina is in the SEC, so there is one.

Why would I provide numbers for geographic regions that were not the subject of the prior post?

Also, it doesn’t seem any of these videos come out of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake…so it’s hard to bring them into the discussion.

Dcumlandia is in the DMV. We are in the mid-Atlantic, yet I’ve heard many people lump us into the NE or East Coast like it’s a bizarre flex. I mean, we are a fantastic area: affluent, educated, and diverse…but not as progressive as some might assume…especially these days.

I have kids at SEC schools. I have relatives at ACC and other schools (including Duke, Wake, and Clemson). Their sorority girls are the same: thin, well-groomed, stylish, fun, and bright.

I know doctors and lawyers and academics who were in sororities…including from SEC schools. I know judges who graduated from SEC undergrad and some even continued with southern schools for law school. Others landed in top ten law schools.

I know a frat boy from a school everyone would consider subpar who scored so high on the LSAT he will easily land at a top las school.

Your bias is absurd.

Somebody posted "this is why all the kids from the NE are now going to southern schools".

I replied to that poster that the facts on the ground don't support that. That in fact kids from the NE make up on average about 5% of SEC schools (so true, not all southern schools...admittedly they are 15% at Vandy and Duke but that's honestly because they are top ranked schools). That in fact applications to schools like Pitt, UMD, UConn, UMass exceed many of these SEC schools. and have grown massively themselves in just the last 3 years.

I furthermore pointed out that the %age of southern kids attending the exclusive NE schools as a %age of student body come out to like 15%...so these schools are actually very popular with kids from the south.

Maybe there are similar videos from UVA, UNC, Duke, Wake...but that's not what anyone is posting.

I don't doubt sorority and fraternity membership is valuable, but that's available at 95% of all schools. I have no doubt that kids that are members of exclusive fraternities and sororities at Penn or the exclusive eating clubs at Princeton don't get professional value from that. However, once more...not the subject of this thread.

Why are you so offended?

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Oh look the mommies who love their daughters who grow up to be MAGA idiots and marry old white christian men that abuse kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh look the mommies who love their daughters who grow up to be MAGA idiots and marry old white christian men that abuse kids.

GFY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is why students in the Northeast are leaving in droves for southern schools.

Except they are not. The total number of NE kids at all the SEC kids isn’t more than 15k and it averages about 5% of their student body.

At the same time, kids from the south make up around 15% of the student body of selective northeast schools and 20% of Chicago.

Also, applications to places like UConn, Pitt, UMass, UMD exceed most southern schools by a decent margin and have seen 35% - 50% growth over the last three years.

Does your # include kids from DC, MD, and VA?

And does your # include schools in NC and SC?

I find it really interesting that dcum tends to give certain places a pass while essentially blacklisting others…as if NC and SC (and heck let’s face it, VA schools) are somehow different/better than GA, AL, TN, etc. (wasn’t this thread about AZ?).

Anecdotally, I know tons of kids from well-educated, liberal families who opted for SEC schools. I admire kids who are confident enough to step outside the liberal bubble and experience something very new and different for college. And the Greek thing is just one option for extroverts and joiners…two qualities that don’t tend to be very common in Dcumlandia.

Anyone else think it’s weird that we are supposedly outraged by judging people by their appearance, etc. except when it’s a young girl all dolled up on a sorority rush video? Then apparently it’s game on. Not nice.

PP mentioned kids from the NE, not the mid-Atlantic. SEC schools are where they are. I believe University of South Carolina is in the SEC, so there is one.

Why would I provide numbers for geographic regions that were not the subject of the prior post?

Also, it doesn’t seem any of these videos come out of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake…so it’s hard to bring them into the discussion.

Dcumlandia is in the DMV. We are in the mid-Atlantic, yet I’ve heard many people lump us into the NE or East Coast like it’s a bizarre flex. I mean, we are a fantastic area: affluent, educated, and diverse…but not as progressive as some might assume…especially these days.

I have kids at SEC schools. I have relatives at ACC and other schools (including Duke, Wake, and Clemson). Their sorority girls are the same: thin, well-groomed, stylish, fun, and bright.

I know doctors and lawyers and academics who were in sororities…including from SEC schools. I know judges who graduated from SEC undergrad and some even continued with southern schools for law school. Others landed in top ten law schools.

I know a frat boy from a school everyone would consider subpar who scored so high on the LSAT he will easily land at a top las school.

Your bias is absurd.

Somebody posted "this is why all the kids from the NE are now going to southern schools".

I replied to that poster that the facts on the ground don't support that. That in fact kids from the NE make up on average about 5% of SEC schools (so true, not all southern schools...admittedly they are 15% at Vandy and Duke but that's honestly because they are top ranked schools). That in fact applications to schools like Pitt, UMD, UConn, UMass exceed many of these SEC schools. and have grown massively themselves in just the last 3 years.

I furthermore pointed out that the %age of southern kids attending the exclusive NE schools as a %age of student body come out to like 15%...so these schools are actually very popular with kids from the south.

Maybe there are similar videos from UVA, UNC, Duke, Wake...but that's not what anyone is posting.

I don't doubt sorority and fraternity membership is valuable, but that's available at 95% of all schools. I have no doubt that kids that are members of exclusive fraternities and sororities at Penn or the exclusive eating clubs at Princeton don't get professional value from that. However, once more...not the subject of this thread.

Why are you so offended?

I’m not personally offended.

FTR, I wasn’t in a sorority. I’m not a joiner.

But as a mom of a handful of kids (including some in college), I’ve observed an uptick in kids from the mid-Atlantic and farther north flocking to southern schools and beyond the usual suspect schools favored a generation ago.

If you talk to college consultants (the people some parents pay to prep their kids for testing and/or navigate the application and scholarship process), they will tell you they are observing the uptick as well. Ten or twenty years ago, very few kids from mcps or Philly or NJ headed to Southern schools and now it isn’t unusual to hear that many kids are.

Fwiw, CA, WA, OR, and AZ are starting to trend the way the SEC schools did in the last 5 years.

Anyway, the bias against sorority girls is just plain mean. We would never say such things about another cohort (race, religion, etc) yet everyone feels very comfortable openly criticizing white sorority girls—calling them stupid, vapid, etc.

I think these girls are outgoing, fun, and bright. They have soft skills that make them highly marketable. Plus they work hard.

It’s ridiculous to assume that a sorority girl at Wake or Duke is markedly different from a girl at a SEC school.

I think everyone must realize on some level that people with personality who feel comfortable in their skin tend to have the most success in life. And imho, anyone who can rock a sexy outfit and dance well enough for a video likely is equipped with sufficient confidence to carry them far in life.

I worry about the kids who require medication to get out of bed and haven’t dated by the time they hit 20. I worry about the kids who can’t navigate a cocktail party, interview, or event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is why students in the Northeast are leaving in droves for southern schools.

Except they are not. The total number of NE kids at all the SEC kids isn’t more than 15k and it averages about 5% of their student body.

At the same time, kids from the south make up around 15% of the student body of selective northeast schools and 20% of Chicago.

Also, applications to places like UConn, Pitt, UMass, UMD exceed most southern schools by a decent margin and have seen 35% - 50% growth over the last three years.

Does your # include kids from DC, MD, and VA?

And does your # include schools in NC and SC?

I find it really interesting that dcum tends to give certain places a pass while essentially blacklisting others…as if NC and SC (and heck let’s face it, VA schools) are somehow different/better than GA, AL, TN, etc. (wasn’t this thread about AZ?).

Anecdotally, I know tons of kids from well-educated, liberal families who opted for SEC schools. I admire kids who are confident enough to step outside the liberal bubble and experience something very new and different for college. And the Greek thing is just one option for extroverts and joiners…two qualities that don’t tend to be very common in Dcumlandia.

Anyone else think it’s weird that we are supposedly outraged by judging people by their appearance, etc. except when it’s a young girl all dolled up on a sorority rush video? Then apparently it’s game on. Not nice.

PP mentioned kids from the NE, not the mid-Atlantic. SEC schools are where they are. I believe University of South Carolina is in the SEC, so there is one.

Why would I provide numbers for geographic regions that were not the subject of the prior post?

Also, it doesn’t seem any of these videos come out of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake…so it’s hard to bring them into the discussion.

Dcumlandia is in the DMV. We are in the mid-Atlantic, yet I’ve heard many people lump us into the NE or East Coast like it’s a bizarre flex. I mean, we are a fantastic area: affluent, educated, and diverse…but not as progressive as some might assume…especially these days.

I have kids at SEC schools. I have relatives at ACC and other schools (including Duke, Wake, and Clemson). Their sorority girls are the same: thin, well-groomed, stylish, fun, and bright.

I know doctors and lawyers and academics who were in sororities…including from SEC schools. I know judges who graduated from SEC undergrad and some even continued with southern schools for law school. Others landed in top ten law schools.

I know a frat boy from a school everyone would consider subpar who scored so high on the LSAT he will easily land at a top las school.

Your bias is absurd.

Somebody posted "this is why all the kids from the NE are now going to southern schools".

I replied to that poster that the facts on the ground don't support that. That in fact kids from the NE make up on average about 5% of SEC schools (so true, not all southern schools...admittedly they are 15% at Vandy and Duke but that's honestly because they are top ranked schools). That in fact applications to schools like Pitt, UMD, UConn, UMass exceed many of these SEC schools. and have grown massively themselves in just the last 3 years.

I furthermore pointed out that the %age of southern kids attending the exclusive NE schools as a %age of student body come out to like 15%...so these schools are actually very popular with kids from the south.

Maybe there are similar videos from UVA, UNC, Duke, Wake...but that's not what anyone is posting.

I don't doubt sorority and fraternity membership is valuable, but that's available at 95% of all schools. I have no doubt that kids that are members of exclusive fraternities and sororities at Penn or the exclusive eating clubs at Princeton don't get professional value from that. However, once more...not the subject of this thread.

Why are you so offended?

I’m not personally offended.

FTR, I wasn’t in a sorority. I’m not a joiner.

But as a mom of a handful of kids (including some in college), I’ve observed an uptick in kids from the mid-Atlantic and farther north flocking to southern schools and beyond the usual suspect schools favored a generation ago.

If you talk to college consultants (the people some parents pay to prep their kids for testing and/or navigate the application and scholarship process), they will tell you they are observing the uptick as well. Ten or twenty years ago, very few kids from mcps or Philly or NJ headed to Southern schools and now it isn’t unusual to hear that many kids are.

Fwiw, CA, WA, OR, and AZ are starting to trend the way the SEC schools did in the last 5 years.

Anyway, the bias against sorority girls is just plain mean. We would never say such things about another cohort (race, religion, etc) yet everyone feels very comfortable openly criticizing white sorority girls—calling them stupid, vapid, etc.

I think these girls are outgoing, fun, and bright. They have soft skills that make them highly marketable. Plus they work hard.

It’s ridiculous to assume that a sorority girl at Wake or Duke is markedly different from a girl at a SEC school.

I think everyone must realize on some level that people with personality who feel comfortable in their skin tend to have the most success in life. And imho, anyone who can rock a sexy outfit and dance well enough for a video likely is equipped with sufficient confidence to carry them far in life.

I worry about the kids who require medication to get out of bed and haven’t dated by the time they hit 20. I worry about the kids who can’t navigate a cocktail party, interview, or event.

Well, yes because it used to be 2% on average and now it's 5%...perhaps in 10 years the progression will continue and it becomes material. But for now, it's only a total of like 15,000 kids at these schools from the NE which isn't really a major number spread across all the states. At the same time, you are just conveniently ignoring that Northern state/flagship schools have also seen a big uptick in interest...that said, I highly doubt it's from kids from the South, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar 5% kind of student body from the South.

I actually can't believe you are correct that a sorority girl at Wake or Duke is the same as one from ASU or Alabama. I can't see how a school with a 5% acceptance rate like Duke is attracting the same type of person (male or female) compared to a school like Alabama which accepts 76% of all applications...or at least in the volume you would need to fill an entire sorority (not to mention many). Duke and Wake just don't have that many undergrads in the scheme of things compared to Alabama or of course ASU which is the largest college in the country by students.

I would wager that the sorority girl at Duke looks more like the sorority girl at Penn vs. the sorority girl at Alabama.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These young, powerful women are “celebrating Truth, Patriotism and their Beauty once again.”

What is patriotic about this?

Shaking their white butts for supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is why students in the Northeast are leaving in droves for southern schools.

Except they are not. The total number of NE kids at all the SEC kids isn’t more than 15k and it averages about 5% of their student body.

At the same time, kids from the south make up around 15% of the student body of selective northeast schools and 20% of Chicago.

Also, applications to places like UConn, Pitt, UMass, UMD exceed most southern schools by a decent margin and have seen 35% - 50% growth over the last three years.

Does your # include kids from DC, MD, and VA?

And does your # include schools in NC and SC?

I find it really interesting that dcum tends to give certain places a pass while essentially blacklisting others…as if NC and SC (and heck let’s face it, VA schools) are somehow different/better than GA, AL, TN, etc. (wasn’t this thread about AZ?).

Anecdotally, I know tons of kids from well-educated, liberal families who opted for SEC schools. I admire kids who are confident enough to step outside the liberal bubble and experience something very new and different for college. And the Greek thing is just one option for extroverts and joiners…two qualities that don’t tend to be very common in Dcumlandia.

Anyone else think it’s weird that we are supposedly outraged by judging people by their appearance, etc. except when it’s a young girl all dolled up on a sorority rush video? Then apparently it’s game on. Not nice.

PP mentioned kids from the NE, not the mid-Atlantic. SEC schools are where they are. I believe University of South Carolina is in the SEC, so there is one.

Why would I provide numbers for geographic regions that were not the subject of the prior post?

Also, it doesn’t seem any of these videos come out of Duke, UNC, UVA, Wake…so it’s hard to bring them into the discussion.

Dcumlandia is in the DMV. We are in the mid-Atlantic, yet I’ve heard many people lump us into the NE or East Coast like it’s a bizarre flex. I mean, we are a fantastic area: affluent, educated, and diverse…but not as progressive as some might assume…especially these days.

I have kids at SEC schools. I have relatives at ACC and other schools (including Duke, Wake, and Clemson). Their sorority girls are the same: thin, well-groomed, stylish, fun, and bright.

I know doctors and lawyers and academics who were in sororities…including from SEC schools. I know judges who graduated from SEC undergrad and some even continued with southern schools for law school. Others landed in top ten law schools.

I know a frat boy from a school everyone would consider subpar who scored so high on the LSAT he will easily land at a top las school.

Your bias is absurd.

Somebody posted "this is why all the kids from the NE are now going to southern schools".

I replied to that poster that the facts on the ground don't support that. That in fact kids from the NE make up on average about 5% of SEC schools (so true, not all southern schools...admittedly they are 15% at Vandy and Duke but that's honestly because they are top ranked schools). That in fact applications to schools like Pitt, UMD, UConn, UMass exceed many of these SEC schools. and have grown massively themselves in just the last 3 years.

I furthermore pointed out that the %age of southern kids attending the exclusive NE schools as a %age of student body come out to like 15%...so these schools are actually very popular with kids from the south.

Maybe there are similar videos from UVA, UNC, Duke, Wake...but that's not what anyone is posting.

I don't doubt sorority and fraternity membership is valuable, but that's available at 95% of all schools. I have no doubt that kids that are members of exclusive fraternities and sororities at Penn or the exclusive eating clubs at Princeton don't get professional value from that. However, once more...not the subject of this thread.

Why are you so offended?

DP. I'm not sure why the fixation on students from the Northeast. This particularly video is from a sorority at Arizona State. As for southern schools, colleges like Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, and Emory draw their students from all over. Duke has a mandate that they need to take 15 percent of students from NC. Not sure about the others. But most students will be from California, NY, Illinois, NJ, Texas, and Florida - like every other major national school. Of course there will be southern students at Ivy schools. But very few - if any - are going up north to attend state flagships like UConn, Rhode Island, or SUNY. The traffic is going the other way.

Regarding state schools, every state flagship is popular today because of the cost of attending private or OOS is extreme these days. And some seem more fun and lively than others. Most schools in the Northeast - besides the Ivies and a handful of Boston schools - are not particularly appealing to students elsewhere in the country. So videos like this are interesting from an almost anthropological perspective. This definitely wasn't taken at a school in New England. You can like it or hate it, but it's going to be appealing to a lot of 18 year olds.