$24k for rush at Alabama??!!

[Anonymous]

Loving all these miserable corporate drones trying to look down on being rich, beautiful, happy, and relaxed.

Oh no, they live in a $500K mansion on Alabama, what losers! They couldn't afford my $2M apartment surrounded by rats and junkies!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The right clothes, jewelry and makeup.

That. Right there. That’s what’s wrong.

Why is it “wrong”? It matters to a very few girls in a very niche community. There are tons of other communities and niches out there if this particular one isn’t your thing.

The Deep South is known for many things, most notably great, but I don’t think finding a banker and settling in the suburbs of Alabama is one of them. I love how they put the one black girl front and center of the girls rushing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i didn't read the article, but i can assure you it is exaggerated.

I didn’t read article either, but I’m sure that’s it!

We pay $20k a year for room and
Board at my kids school. These kids are paying for a private room in a sorority house, a private chef, and party venues! $20k could be seen as a bargain.

And they can afford it. These are kids and grandkids of old money! Their parents are in construction, real estate, banking, farming, oil, cable companies, software, textiles, etc. these kids are living their best lives! And the beauty is they don’t envy any of the rat race we are running. We can have our ivys and USNWR rankings

Sorry, I know it's not nice of me, but I look down on such people. And no, I don't call that Old Money.

Old Money in the South and North go way back, even before the Revolution in some cases, tied together by . . . slavery, of course, so it is difficult to be too judgmental: http://slavenorth.com/profits.htm

Seriously, who is in a family where old money is still in the family and now worth billions. The Rockefeller money went through a lot of heirs, now with about 200 living heirs the trusts will be depleted probably this generation. More billionaires are not leaving dynasties but giving it away over their lifetime.

I doubt there are any families with billions from before the revolution or after the civil war. People need to stop glamorizing something that doesn’t exist anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What even is 30A???

State highway 30A along the beaches of the central panhandle of Florida. Disneyland-like planned communities that have popped up over the last 30 years. There are about 10, specifically between Santa Rosa Beach and Rosemary Beach. Big destination for UMC families from the south and Texas. Sort of like the Hamptons but more family friendly, less sophisticated, more manufactured, and more MAGA.

lol you didn’t just compare 30A to the Hamptons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke and Vandy have a cultura/ social environment more similar to SEC schools than UPenn, Columbia or Brown. Thank God!

I wouldn’t really say that. Maybe 30 years ago…but as they’ve gotten harder to get into, Duke and Vandy’s student body now looks pretty similar to the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

There is a reason the smartest people tend to send their smart children to ivy+ schools. Rather spend 90k to get the optimum chance to go top law or MBB, or quantitative investing , or top tech research via the topPhD programs. All of these are much easier from a top undergrad. No marriage to a frat boy or sorority girl needed, you can marry another smart successful human without the frivolity or southern rush culture.

[Anonymous]

Alabama and Ivies are different schools. Academic types don’t go to Alabama. The type of Northern kids who go to Alabama are very different from the kids who go to SLACs and Ivies. Those kids are looking to party. Obviously if you go to Amherst or Princeton, you could care less about the SEC. If you go to Gettysburg or a school at that level, insecurity about SEC or Big 10s is a bad look. You just have to live and let live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loving all these miserable corporate drones trying to look down on being rich, beautiful, happy, and relaxed.

Oh no, they live in a $500K mansion on Alabama, what losers! They couldn't afford my $2M apartment surrounded by rats and junkies!

The south and Alabama in particular have the worst per capita crime rates and highest drug addiction rates in the country. Pretty sure you are much more likely to encounter junkies in Birmingham more so than Manhattan or Boston or Philly.

Have you even been to Birmingham? You tell me how nice it is to walk from the Art museum to say the Elyton (which has a cool rooftop bar). You will encounter many homeless people and likely junkies on that walk. I know a guy on the Board of the art museum and he thought it was a bit nuts for us to make that walk “but you will probably Ok at 4pm”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The right clothes, jewelry and makeup.

That. Right there. That’s what’s wrong.

Why is it “wrong”? It matters to a very few girls in a very niche community. There are tons of other communities and niches out there if this particular one isn’t your thing.

The Deep South is known for many things, most notably great, but I don’t think finding a banker and settling in the suburbs of Alabama is one of them. I love how they put the one black girl front and center of the girls rushing.

They “put” her there? You think she has no agency? You sound brainwashed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loving all these miserable corporate drones trying to look down on being rich, beautiful, happy, and relaxed.

Oh no, they live in a $500K mansion on Alabama, what losers! They couldn't afford my $2M apartment surrounded by rats and junkies!

The south and Alabama in particular have the worst per capita crime rates and highest drug addiction rates in the country. Pretty sure you are much more likely to encounter junkies in Birmingham more so than Manhattan or Boston or Philly.

Have you even been to Birmingham? You tell me how nice it is to walk from the Art museum to say the Elyton (which has a cool rooftop bar). You will encounter many homeless people and likely junkies on that walk. I know a guy on the Board of the art museum and he thought it was a bit nuts for us to make that walk “but you will probably Ok at 4pm”

Homeless? Trump has pointed out to us all that cities with homeless populations are "disgusting."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke and Vandy have a cultura/ social environment more similar to SEC schools than UPenn, Columbia or Brown. Thank God!

Vandy - yes. Duke - no. Both great schools but Duke isn’t called the University of New Jersey at Durham for nothing. It’s nothing like an SEC school. It’s just Duke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What even is 30A???

It's the highway to hell.

We used to call it the redneck riviera.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all of you that didn't read:

$375 fee to Rush
$180 to Move in early (for On Campus housing)

Any sorority anywhere in any state is going to have Initiation Fees, New Member Fees, etc. and they list that at roughly $5K.

The remaining money is based on bloggers who assign values to the clothes and jewelry some of the girls are wearing.

So, to participate in Rush it's less than $600 and then when you join, you have to pay fees. I'd bet at the University of Kansas or USC these fees are pretty similar.

Thank You 😘😘😘

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just take a drive from one of those cities to 30A one Friday afternoon. You'll find yourself in a caravan of Bimmers and Cybertrucks

This must be someone having a bit of fun on this forum otherwise filled with people who wouldn't be caught dead striving to join a caravan of Cybertrucks cruising a regionally-renowned vacation spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who have never lived in the South might snicker at this, but this is a very smart investment, certainly a better one than spending $50k a year for a private or out of state school outside of the T30 or so.

The Greek system in the SEC, particularly in the Deep South states, is one of the most lucrative networks you can plug into. Joining a top-tier sorority at Alabama puts you at the front of the line to date and potentially marry the fraternity men who will be running the banks, law firms, and investment firms in 5-10 years in cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, etc.

Just take a drive from one of those cities to 30A one Friday afternoon. You'll find yourself in a caravan of Bimmers and Cybertrucks occupied by young, attractive, successful couples and their well-behaved children. These were the fraternity men and sorority dimes of top-tier SEC houses in the 2010s, and the kids will likely pledge the same house in the 2030s.

It's a swanky and rarefied world, and becoming a part of it often starts on bid night freshman year.

Yeah, no thanks.