You are responding to me. Exactly. Uncool to have too many posts. lol. |
My son has lots of followers. And follows a lot. But doesn’t post. |
| Hiking in Heels: https://getintoasorority.com/about-us/ |
Why do I feel this thread was started as product placement like when movie stars drink a Pepsi- they are getting paid and not just by chance? |
Nope I’m the OP…this has derailed….but need to click that link! |
Not sad, funny. But the jokes on the OP. The only people who will be impressed by your daughter's middling state school sorority is the hiring manager at Walmart. Enjoy the discount, while the geeks from MIT, U of C, and LSE enjoy the 1%. |
| What colleges have old-school normal sororities where family privilege and/or consultants are not part of the process??! |
| What’s next, hiring friend groups for photo ops and cool roommates? |
You think privilege is not part of old-school sororities? |
Every school. There is an unofficial tier and this does not happen for low-tier frats, and I assume isn’t as bad for low-tier sororities. Okay, maybe not for Alabama, but at normal state schools—like Big-10. 😉 Kids want/need to find friends. Being in Greek life facilitates that. Yes, there are strivers. But there’s also a ton of kids who want to belong. One kid told my son he’d never had friends before joining the fraternity because he’d been at a small HS. |
| I rank rush consultants just ahead of DEI consultants and just behind ISO 9000 consultants. |
You do realize that Walmart CEO went to University if Arkansas and also CEOs tend to come from state school background. Stop being so snooty. |
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We received the following advice from a paid sorority consultant. I hope that this is helpful to some people, and will help to avoid having to pay $3000, as we did: 1. Social media is essential. As soon as you register for recruitment (aka rush), "the girls in the sorority will immediately go to your Instagram account" to learn about you. 2. On Instagram, you need to look "classy and put together." 3. On Instagram, the sorority does not want to see a girl with a ton of separate photos with boys. Maybe a few photos with one boy (suggesting that is a boyfriend), but not multiple boys in photos. 3. On Instagram, it's ideal to have photos with lots of girl friends, which shows that you are a nice person and have a lot of friends. 4. On Instagram, only post a photo of yourself in a swimsuit if you are on vacation. 5. On Instagram, you want to portray yourself as fun, but not too much of a partier. 6. If rush is in the spring semester (instead of the fall semester), take the easiest possible classes to maximize your GPA. The sorority cares about the GPA. They would rather see someone take very easy classes and get a 4.0, than take really difficult classes and have a 2.75. |
| My nephew went to one of the SEC schools several years back. He was on the baseball team. He met a girl during new student orientation and they started seeing each other. About two or three months into the relationship they broke up. She was totally obsessed about rushing and the whole Greek culture. It was a life or death situation for her to join the sorority she was targeting. |
| Sad. When will Greek life and Miss America pageants go away? |