Stupid sorority!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a school that didn't have a Greek system. I didn't want to go to a school with an active Greek life because it all seemed co catty and only focused on partying.

Fats forward 20 years and now I know I was naive and short sighted. Sororities and Fraternities give you a lifetime of career and social connections. It comes up all the time in my work life and I envy those that have Greek connections.

Interesting. It has never ever come up once in my work life.

+1

+2. Hasn’t ever come up once in my work life that I can recall.

[Anonymous]

Joining a fraternity or sorority is the fastest way to flunk out of school. It was my niece's down fall. To many parties all the time. It is a blessing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

That really just makes you no better than the sorority. So . . . good job?

Oh please. It makes her tons better. And smarter.

Holding a grudge.
Judging someone for a social activity.
Being super judgy and petty, and moreover, proud of it.

Yeah, that really shows her to be a better or smarter person. It really shows her to be nothing but a simple, vindictive bi---ch of the most basic variety.

Let me take a stab in the dark: You were Tri Delta and bolded it on your resume.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

That really just makes you no better than the sorority. So . . . good job?

Oh please. It makes her tons better. And smarter.

+1 NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school that didn't have a Greek system. I didn't want to go to a school with an active Greek life because it all seemed co catty and only focused on partying.

Fats forward 20 years and now I know I was naive and short sighted. Sororities and Fraternities give you a lifetime of career and social connections. It comes up all the time in my work life and I envy those that have Greek connections.

Interesting. It has never ever come up once in my work life.

+1 The only time it has come up in our hiring practice in when 25 year olds are trying to explain away a bad semester of grades and they blame the time when they were rushing. Otherwise, it never came up once.

[Anonymous]

I was in one of the nation’s biggest sororities in college, at a university where Greek life was popular but not the end-all by any means. I believe it greatly helped my social and service skills, but friends in (for example) sports had the same opportunities.

My closest friendships now (20 yrs later) are with girls from my sorority.

Also, not everyone gets a bid. Entitlement is not a good look, in Greek life, as a parent, as a CEO, anything. Rejection of any kind builds strength and resilience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

+1

So ridiculous and juvenile.

Another +1

I can’t believe anyone would be so desperate to “audition” for a group of friends. I went to a big state school with lots of Greek life in the early oughts and knew back then it was stupid (my DH had a similar experience at his state school). We both have lots of friends and active social life with a diverse group do people and we didn’t have to buy the “right brand” of clothes or be able binge drink!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school that didn't have a Greek system. I didn't want to go to a school with an active Greek life because it all seemed co catty and only focused on partying.

Fats forward 20 years and now I know I was naive and short sighted. Sororities and Fraternities give you a lifetime of career and social connections. It comes up all the time in my work life and I envy those that have Greek connections.

Interesting. It has never ever come up once in my work life.

Same as you PP. I’m a DC area attorney and have never heard anyone use their Greek life connections (if anything it’s more family friend/political connections either from being wealthy or having done certain internships that matters). I have friends that I happen to know were in a sorority and they have no active affiliation with it anymore.

People still rah rah-ing their Greek life more than a few years out of college are cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

+1

So ridiculous and juvenile.

Another +1

I can’t believe anyone would be so desperate to “audition” for a group of friends. I went to a big state school with lots of Greek life in the early oughts and knew back then it was stupid (my DH had a similar experience at his state school). We both have lots of friends and active social life with a diverse group do people and we didn’t have to buy the “right brand” of clothes or be able binge drink!

Isn’t applying for college is a similar kind of audition?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

+1

So ridiculous and juvenile.

Another +1

I can’t believe anyone would be so desperate to “audition” for a group of friends. I went to a big state school with lots of Greek life in the early oughts and knew back then it was stupid (my DH had a similar experience at his state school). We both have lots of friends and active social life with a diverse group do people and we didn’t have to buy the “right brand” of clothes or be able binge drink!

Isn’t applying for college is a similar kind of audition?

You cannot possibly be serious. Not even remotely the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school that didn't have a Greek system. I didn't want to go to a school with an active Greek life because it all seemed co catty and only focused on partying.

Fats forward 20 years and now I know I was naive and short sighted. Sororities and Fraternities give you a lifetime of career and social connections. It comes up all the time in my work life and I envy those that have Greek connections.

Interesting. It has never ever come up once in my work life.

Same as you PP. I’m a DC area attorney and have never heard anyone use their Greek life connections (if anything it’s more family friend/political connections either from being wealthy or having done certain internships that matters). I have friends that I happen to know were in a sorority and they have no active affiliation with it anymore.

People still rah rah-ing their Greek life more than a few years out of college are cringe.

Grown women who refer to anything as "cringe" are silly. You're an adult. Use your adult words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in one of the nation’s biggest sororities in college, at a university where Greek life was popular but not the end-all by any means. I believe it greatly helped my social and service skills, but friends in (for example) sports had the same opportunities.

My closest friendships now (20 yrs later) are with girls from my sorority.

Also, not everyone gets a bid. Entitlement is not a good look, in Greek life, as a parent, as a CEO, anything. Rejection of any kind builds strength and resilience.

discriminating is a worse look

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

+1

So ridiculous and juvenile.

Another +1

I can’t believe anyone would be so desperate to “audition” for a group of friends. I went to a big state school with lots of Greek life in the early oughts and knew back then it was stupid (my DH had a similar experience at his state school). We both have lots of friends and active social life with a diverse group do people and we didn’t have to buy the “right brand” of clothes or be able binge drink!

+4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was in one of the nation’s biggest sororities in college, at a university where Greek life was popular but not the end-all by any means. I believe it greatly helped my social and service skills, but friends in (for example) sports had the same opportunities.

My closest friendships now (20 yrs later) are with girls from my sorority.

Also, not everyone gets a bid. Entitlement is not a good look, in Greek life, as a parent, as a CEO, anything. Rejection of any kind builds strength and resilience.

20 years later, and you’re still a teenager. It is “not a good look”(Do you flip your hair when you say this?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I’m sure the rejection is difficult for her. Sorry. Sororities are ridiculous. It’s shocking to me that schools still have this process of judging girls based primarily on their appearance and clothes. Aren’t we more evolved than this as a society? Sad. If it makes you feel better when I see a sorority or fraternity listed on a resume I drop it in the trash.

DP
I love you for this.

Wait..people put this on their professional resume?

Like the other poster, I would drop a resume that listed sororities or frats in the trash normally. Only case where that wouldn't be true is if they were still in school and listed a leadership activity (that was truly a leadership activity) that came from the sorority. I have seen people list sororities 10 years after school. Hard pass.