It’s sorority video season

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a tidal wave of kids from our wealthy full pay NE suburb going to SEC schools. Not too many interested in Vasser, Swarthmore, Smith be or Mt Holyoke.

So why are schools like UConn, UMass, NYU, BU, BC, every Ivy, Pitt, Penn State, UMD et al more popular than ever. Are all the southerners heading North?

Every large college is receiving more apps than ever because the borders are wide open, anyone in the world can apply, and small and mid-sized colleges are all dying.

Bottom line is y'all really can't cope with the fact that the South is booming and smart northern / mid-Atlantic / west coast teens are seeking out the traditional Southern conservative ethos. Because TikTok and other social media is making these colleges look amazing compared to the cold, bad weather, parkas, and far left miserable ethos they see on the same social media at New England and other northern universities.

The linked video is from Arizona State - not a southern school.

Whether sorority girls dancing is amazing or appalling to you is not a North-South thing. You will find this in the midwest, the south, the mountain west, the southwest, the west coast.

The biggest change is social media and the need or desire to be performative for the camera all the damn time. I don't think it's generally healthy, but if a group of young people want to make a production of it, go for it. I don't think 50 year old parents intuitively understand the realities of 20 year olds today. I'm sure this little video has a gazillion views, and that's a win for these students.

And look, outside the Ivies and the Boston schools, New England is incredibly unappealing for most young people today. And the fuddy-duddies saying they would never, my word, how crass, shall clutch the pearls, is a big reason why New England is not a desirable place to go college. New England is far, far more socially conservative than any other part of the country. Some little vid of sorority girls doing a thing in Arizona should not be a thing. But the northeast people clearly have issues with it. Just... go milk the cows and tighten the bonnet.

Y'all are really grasping at straws. The state of Arizona is in fact in the Sun Belt and has always had a Southern vibe of big trucks, country music, belt buckles, cowboys boots, and horses. Those Arizona State sorority girls are obviously leaning in and mirroring the SEC deep south aesthetics because it's wildly trendy right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a tidal wave of kids from our wealthy full pay NE suburb going to SEC schools. Not too many interested in Vasser, Swarthmore, Smith be or Mt Holyoke.

So why are schools like UConn, UMass, NYU, BU, BC, every Ivy, Pitt, Penn State, UMD et al more popular than ever. Are all the southerners heading North?

Every large college is receiving more apps than ever because the borders are wide open, anyone in the world can apply, and small and mid-sized colleges are all dying.

Bottom line is y'all really can't cope with the fact that the South is booming and smart northern / mid-Atlantic / west coast teens are seeking out the traditional Southern conservative ethos. Because TikTok and other social media is making these colleges look amazing compared to the cold, bad weather, parkas, and far left miserable ethos they see on the same social media at New England and other northern universities.

Big colleges are doing better because of US news rankings first and tik tok videos a distant second. As the kids say, it’s not that deep.

They’re also cheap compared to a lot of smaller colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Greek life is so appealing, why do they have to make these videos to drive recruitment?

Because first and foremost it's fun? And also, Greek life is competitive and selective. They are battling for the prettiest, sweetest, most stylish and top disposition gals in every new incoming freshman class. It argue clearly goes further and drives high school applications during application season. Don't kid yourself, these flagship colleges love it because it's driving applications and alumni gift giving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a tidal wave of kids from our wealthy full pay NE suburb going to SEC schools. Not too many interested in Vasser, Swarthmore, Smith be or Mt Holyoke.

So why are schools like UConn, UMass, NYU, BU, BC, every Ivy, Pitt, Penn State, UMD et al more popular than ever. Are all the southerners heading North?

Every large college is receiving more apps than ever because the borders are wide open, anyone in the world can apply, and small and mid-sized colleges are all dying.

Bottom line is y'all really can't cope with the fact that the South is booming and smart northern / mid-Atlantic / west coast teens are seeking out the traditional Southern conservative ethos. Because TikTok and other social media is making these colleges look amazing compared to the cold, bad weather, parkas, and far left miserable ethos they see on the same social media at New England and other northern universities.

The linked video is from Arizona State - not a southern school.

Whether sorority girls dancing is amazing or appalling to you is not a North-South thing. You will find this in the midwest, the south, the mountain west, the southwest, the west coast.

The biggest change is social media and the need or desire to be performative for the camera all the damn time. I don't think it's generally healthy, but if a group of young people want to make a production of it, go for it. I don't think 50 year old parents intuitively understand the realities of 20 year olds today. I'm sure this little video has a gazillion views, and that's a win for these students.

And look, outside the Ivies and the Boston schools, New England is incredibly unappealing for most young people today. And the fuddy-duddies saying they would never, my word, how crass, shall clutch the pearls, is a big reason why New England is not a desirable place to go college. New England is far, far more socially conservative than any other part of the country. Some little vid of sorority girls doing a thing in Arizona should not be a thing. But the northeast people clearly have issues with it. Just... go milk the cows and tighten the bonnet.

Y'all are really grasping at straws. The state of Arizona is in fact in the Sun Belt and has always had a Southern vibe of big trucks, country music, belt buckles, cowboys boots, and horses. Those Arizona State sorority girls are obviously leaning in and mirroring the SEC deep south aesthetics because it's wildly trendy right now.

This chart doesn’t really say that…it includes California all the way to what looks like SF.

So, you think SF, LA and SD also are southern cities with a southern vibe?

I don’t think most people who live in NM and Arizona identify with the southeast too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Greek life is so appealing, why do they have to make these videos to drive recruitment?

Because first and foremost it's fun? And also, Greek life is competitive and selective. They are battling for the prettiest, sweetest, most stylish and top disposition gals in every new incoming freshman class. It argue clearly goes further and drives high school applications during application season. Don't kid yourself, these flagship colleges love it because it's driving applications and alumni gift giving

Actually what I am seeing is that the majority of parents don't have enough money to fund a sorority (or fraternity), so these houses have to really advertise to keep their numbers up.

If they were really exclusive girls would be flocking to them with no videos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a tidal wave of kids from our wealthy full pay NE suburb going to SEC schools. Not too many interested in Vasser, Swarthmore, Smith be or Mt Holyoke.

So why are schools like UConn, UMass, NYU, BU, BC, every Ivy, Pitt, Penn State, UMD et al more popular than ever. Are all the southerners heading North?

Every large college is receiving more apps than ever because the borders are wide open, anyone in the world can apply, and small and mid-sized colleges are all dying.

Bottom line is y'all really can't cope with the fact that the South is booming and smart northern / mid-Atlantic / west coast teens are seeking out the traditional Southern conservative ethos. Because TikTok and other social media is making these colleges look amazing compared to the cold, bad weather, parkas, and far left miserable ethos they see on the same social media at New England and other northern universities.

The linked video is from Arizona State - not a southern school.

Whether sorority girls dancing is amazing or appalling to you is not a North-South thing. You will find this in the midwest, the south, the mountain west, the southwest, the west coast.

The biggest change is social media and the need or desire to be performative for the camera all the damn time. I don't think it's generally healthy, but if a group of young people want to make a production of it, go for it. I don't think 50 year old parents intuitively understand the realities of 20 year olds today. I'm sure this little video has a gazillion views, and that's a win for these students.

And look, outside the Ivies and the Boston schools, New England is incredibly unappealing for most young people today. And the fuddy-duddies saying they would never, my word, how crass, shall clutch the pearls, is a big reason why New England is not a desirable place to go college. New England is far, far more socially conservative than any other part of the country. Some little vid of sorority girls doing a thing in Arizona should not be a thing. But the northeast people clearly have issues with it. Just... go milk the cows and tighten the bonnet.

Y'all are really grasping at straws. The state of Arizona is in fact in the Sun Belt and has always had a Southern vibe of big trucks, country music, belt buckles, cowboys boots, and horses. Those Arizona State sorority girls are obviously leaning in and mirroring the SEC deep south aesthetics because it's wildly trendy right now.

This chart doesn’t really say that…it includes California all the way to what looks like SF.

So, you think SF, LA and SD also are southern cities with a southern vibe?

I don’t think most people who live in NM and Arizona identify with the southeast too much.

Bless your hearts but some of y'all are thick. The girlies in the videos at ASU... Arizona... UT-Austin... Texas A&M... SMU... LSU... Bama Ole Miss... UGA and Clemson and USC... Vandy and Kentucky... Florida State... all have the same Southern belle country music conservative cowgirl country club and horses aesthetics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Greek life is so appealing, why do they have to make these videos to drive recruitment?

Because first and foremost it's fun? And also, Greek life is competitive and selective. They are battling for the prettiest, sweetest, most stylish and top disposition gals in every new incoming freshman class. It argue clearly goes further and drives high school applications during application season. Don't kid yourself, these flagship colleges love it because it's driving applications and alumni gift giving

Actually what I am seeing is that the majority of parents don't have enough money to fund a sorority (or fraternity), so these houses have to really advertise to keep their numbers up.

If they were really exclusive girls would be flocking to them with no videos.

The rich are richer than ever. You're clueless and seething with envy.

[Anonymous]

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LOL, no.

[Anonymous]

It’s been really weird on dcum lately, feels like a lot of newbies found it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a tidal wave of kids from our wealthy full pay NE suburb going to SEC schools. Not too many interested in Vasser, Swarthmore, Smith be or Mt Holyoke.

So why are schools like UConn, UMass, NYU, BU, BC, every Ivy, Pitt, Penn State, UMD et al more popular than ever. Are all the southerners heading North?

Every large college is receiving more apps than ever because the borders are wide open, anyone in the world can apply, and small and mid-sized colleges are all dying.

Bottom line is y'all really can't cope with the fact that the South is booming and smart northern / mid-Atlantic / west coast teens are seeking out the traditional Southern conservative ethos. Because TikTok and other social media is making these colleges look amazing compared to the cold, bad weather, parkas, and far left miserable ethos they see on the same social media at New England and other northern universities.

I love how your “bottom line” is devoid of any rational thought and just pulled from your ass.

The bottom line is that southerners make up much larger %ages at the New England universities you mention than vice versa. Go look at where kids are from for every Ivy, NYU, Williams, BU…all these schools. They are all at least 10% and most are 15%+.

The only schools in the south equivalent are the top private schools like Emory, Vandy and Duke which we all agree feel more like the top privates above than SEC schools.

Your issue is you focus on %age increases without understanding the nominal numbers aren’t impressive at all…and when kids are interviewed as to why as an example a kid is at Ga Tech…his answer was because I was rejected at Tufts.

Tufts. lol. Creepy striver tiger mom confirmed. You probably have several College Confidential windows open on your browser right now.

Confirmed…by providing an example from a WSJ article from a kid rejected by Tufts who ended up at Ga Tech?

I guess because you just were owned by the facts…that’s all you got.

A single dorky anecdote in the NYC-based WSJ totally trumps the annual hyper-viral pop culture SEC sorority season. Why is this thread so spirited, with 30+ pages? It's the most popular thread of 2025 in this college sub-forum. Because everyone in an UMC orbit from DC to NYC to Chicago and everywhere in between knows of teens heading down South for college in recent years. It's not a little blip, it's a huge wave. Of course most kids still head to college within a few hours from home but you're in denial if you don't acknowledge the stampede to these Southern conservative campuses. It also mirrors the explosive economies and population growth in the south -- from Phoenix to Nashville, Austin, Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Florida.

Is that what an influencer on TikTok told you?

Must be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s been really weird on dcum lately, feels like a lot of newbies found it.

There have been waves of dumbing down over the years. MAGA trash that got kicked off other platforms is my guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Greek life is so appealing, why do they have to make these videos to drive recruitment?

Because first and foremost it's fun? And also, Greek life is competitive and selective. They are battling for the prettiest, sweetest, most stylish and top disposition gals in every new incoming freshman class. It argue clearly goes further and drives high school applications during application season. Don't kid yourself, these flagship colleges love it because it's driving applications and alumni gift giving

Actually what I am seeing is that the majority of parents don't have enough money to fund a sorority (or fraternity), so these houses have to really advertise to keep their numbers up.

If they were really exclusive girls would be flocking to them with no videos.

Yik…
Whatever the school, whether in the South or the North, I would not let my kids go near this type of club (not that they’re interested in it anyway).
Professional clubs that compete based on intellectual or other skills rather than appearance are fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s been really weird on dcum lately, feels like a lot of newbies found it.

There have been waves of dumbing down over the years. Liberal trash that got kicked off other platforms is my guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So glad I have boys

Who will date those girls.

Just for sex and that’s okay!

In your son's dreams. For the most part, these girls don't sleep with anyone not affiliated with a peer tier Greek house, i.e. other affluent well-bred ambitious boys from good backgrounds. And they date to marry.

This stereotype these gals are all dumb, trashy, promiscuous, drunks looking for a Mrs Degree... is laughably absurd. They more than likely have an outgoing personality, a 3.9 GPA, are studying for the LSAT or MCAT, and want to marry soon after college and build a life together with a nice boy. Heaven forbid!!!!!

“Well-bred”? Ewww! Are you talking about livestock? It also sounds quite “eugenics-sy”. Also, my daughter is in a sorority at UVA, and has a 3.9 GPA. I am pretty sure she is not there searching up frat boys’ family trees. The kid can have all the “genes” in the world, but a doofus will always be a doofus.