Anyone have their daughter in this sorority at Bama?

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Anonymous wrote:The house is grand, but tasteless. The inside is Booooooorrrinng.

Are you projecting your own self image?

Yawn.

Yes, you are definitely Booooooorrrinng.

And you are a greek lemming. Far worse.

I'm not Greek, born and raised here in the good ol'e USA. Did go to Greece once though, it was quite lovely.

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Some of you have no idea what it costs to build a regular dorm.

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Anonymous wrote:Came across this sorority house. My college didn’t have sororities, but this looks amazing. Way better than any hisie I’ve ever lived in.

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/10/take_a_look_inside_the_new_13.html

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

My kid is starting at Bama next week. I am shocked by the wealth on campus. The entire campus is gorgeous: buildings and students. The sorority houses are so picture perfect they look fake. Everyone on campus is super fit. The posts I see on the Bama moms groups indicate their homes are similarly upscale. Everyone is very, very friendly. The moms have local meet ups (including in the dc metro area). They literally offer to drive kids to/from campus, the airport, etc.

Their network is vast. The parent groups hook up kids for internships, jobs, housing, etc. It’s so unlike anything I expected.

I’ve met some kids from the Bama Greek groups, and they are very outgoing, confident, and friendly. Upperclassmen are volunteering to help students move in, move furniture, etc.

I know the Bama Rush Tik Toks are over the top. But I would encourage everyone to reserve labeling everyone.

Yes, everyone is “so sweet” on the surface. But you will never actually be their friend. Those circles are closed and they have prepped their girls for two years to rush “successfully” (staged social media, football games with social strategy, and networking to meet older girls who will then lobby for them during rush.) Their homes are nice because that’s important to southern women in general and property taxes and housing are so inexpensive, they can afford to fuss over their house with the help of their 19 friends who all own interior decorating stores and their 10 friends who all have little art studios.

weird, my daughter was in a sorority at Alabama (from the north) and has been in/to many weddings for her sorority friends, roomed with two after college, gets together with them regularly...I think you spend too much time on the internet.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

They didn't like you, and so you concluded that it's them, not you, right?

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So no one has had a daughter there?

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Anonymous wrote:Came across this sorority house. My college didn’t have sororities, but this looks amazing. Way better than any hisie I’ve ever lived in.

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/10/take_a_look_inside_the_new_13.html

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

My kid is starting at Bama next week. I am shocked by the wealth on campus. The entire campus is gorgeous: buildings and students. The sorority houses are so picture perfect they look fake. Everyone on campus is super fit. The posts I see on the Bama moms groups indicate their homes are similarly upscale. Everyone is very, very friendly. The moms have local meet ups (including in the dc metro area). They literally offer to drive kids to/from campus, the airport, etc.

Their network is vast. The parent groups hook up kids for internships, jobs, housing, etc. It’s so unlike anything I expected.

I’ve met some kids from the Bama Greek groups, and they are very outgoing, confident, and friendly. Upperclassmen are volunteering to help students move in, move furniture, etc.

I know the Bama Rush Tik Toks are over the top. But I would encourage everyone to reserve labeling everyone.

Yes, everyone is “so sweet” on the surface. But you will never actually be their friend. Those circles are closed and they have prepped their girls for two years to rush “successfully” (staged social media, football games with social strategy, and networking to meet older girls who will then lobby for them during rush.) Their homes are nice because that’s important to southern women in general and property taxes and housing are so inexpensive, they can afford to fuss over their house with the help of their 19 friends who all own interior decorating stores and their 10 friends who all have little art studios.

weird, my daughter was in a sorority at Alabama (from the north) and has been in/to many weddings for her sorority friends, roomed with two after college, gets together with them regularly...I think you spend too much time on the internet.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

They didn't like you, and so you concluded that it's them, not you, right?

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Came across this sorority house. My college didn’t have sororities, but this looks amazing. Way better than any hisie I’ve ever lived in.

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/10/take_a_look_inside_the_new_13.html

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

My kid is starting at Bama next week. I am shocked by the wealth on campus. The entire campus is gorgeous: buildings and students. The sorority houses are so picture perfect they look fake. Everyone on campus is super fit. The posts I see on the Bama moms groups indicate their homes are similarly upscale. Everyone is very, very friendly. The moms have local meet ups (including in the dc metro area). They literally offer to drive kids to/from campus, the airport, etc.

Their network is vast. The parent groups hook up kids for internships, jobs, housing, etc. It’s so unlike anything I expected.

I’ve met some kids from the Bama Greek groups, and they are very outgoing, confident, and friendly. Upperclassmen are volunteering to help students move in, move furniture, etc.

I know the Bama Rush Tik Toks are over the top. But I would encourage everyone to reserve labeling everyone.

Yes, everyone is “so sweet” on the surface. But you will never actually be their friend. Those circles are closed and they have prepped their girls for two years to rush “successfully” (staged social media, football games with social strategy, and networking to meet older girls who will then lobby for them during rush.) Their homes are nice because that’s important to southern women in general and property taxes and housing are so inexpensive, they can afford to fuss over their house with the help of their 19 friends who all own interior decorating stores and their 10 friends who all have little art studios.

weird, my daughter was in a sorority at Alabama (from the north) and has been in/to many weddings for her sorority friends, roomed with two after college, gets together with them regularly...I think you spend too much time on the internet.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

They didn't like you, and so you concluded that it's them, not you, right?

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

NP. Which is?

[Anonymous]

I will chime in and say that I have a daughter that went to Alabama. She was a part of a sorority and it was great for her. She had tons of responsibility and leadership positions in her sorority each year which gave her a full resume. She also had an internship that she didn't get through a friend or SEC connecting. She got it through one of her professors. She has been out of school several years and is quite successful.

She still keeps up with many of her sorority sisters, and, in fact, is going on a trip with some of them next week.

Yes, it was a little expensive, but it was ok with us as she was on a full ride scholarship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will chime in and say that I have a daughter that went to Alabama. She was a part of a sorority and it was great for her. She had tons of responsibility and leadership positions in her sorority each year which gave her a full resume. She also had an internship that she didn't get through a friend or SEC connecting. She got it through one of her professors. She has been out of school several years and is quite successful.

She still keeps up with many of her sorority sisters, and, in fact, is going on a trip with some of them next week.

Yes, it was a little expensive, but it was ok with us as she was on a full ride scholarship.

And here come all the hen's with "she bought her friends!"

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Anonymous wrote:I will chime in and say that I have a daughter that went to Alabama. She was a part of a sorority and it was great for her. She had tons of responsibility and leadership positions in her sorority each year which gave her a full resume. She also had an internship that she didn't get through a friend or SEC connecting. She got it through one of her professors. She has been out of school several years and is quite successful.

She still keeps up with many of her sorority sisters, and, in fact, is going on a trip with some of them next week.

Yes, it was a little expensive, but it was ok with us as she was on a full ride scholarship.

Thank you.

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Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

So you answered your own post and the rest of the post was just gratuitous bunk. Look people, if you don't like it than don't do it...absolutely no one makes you do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

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University of Alabama ugh yuck

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I’m a Tar Heel and the UNC ones from last year on Tik Tok making fun of the Bama ones were hilarous (here’s my fit check, I got these shorts at the student stores, my shirt from Target, etc). I loved it.

So what if the Bama girls do this?! Live and let live I say.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

Who is shallow? Methinks the person who spends time and money on makeup and hair consultations and clothing specifically to belong to a group.