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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it sort of hilarious that DCUM loves asking about how to dress WASPy and what and what isn't classy, and how to appear upper class, but loses its mind when faced with the prospect of sorority recruitment because it's too white and too elitist. Ya'll better pull the mote out of your own eye.  [/quote]

The same people who like greek life as it is are the ones who want to look ''classy.''[/quote]

No.  People who are in sororities don't need to ask an anonymous message board how to dress, act, network or decorate.  Sororities do an excellent job providing this training. [/quote]

Awesome! More young women should be allowed into sororities, then. We could all use that training. [/quote]

Every NPC rush in the country guarantees a bid for every young woman who completes recruitment.  It may not be a bid to her first choice, but everyone gets a bid. Placement rates at even the most competitive campuses is over 90%.  Many of the people who don't get bids drop out early because they don't like the choices they have left. It's not that the sororities cut young women. It's that young women cut sororities because they had their heart set on a "top tier" sorority and didn't get invited back and weren't willing to accept a bid from a "lesser" sorority.   [/quote]

don't know about NPC but I do know that there are absolutely schools that guarantee a bid if you continue through the rush process and don't suicide bid. As PP noted, the problem is that many girls drop out simply because they got cut by the "popular" houses. Also, once cut, if the girl drops out of rush, she's eligible for COB (continuous open bidding) and even heard of girls getting into houses that dropped them during formal rush. SO the net net, is there is room for everyone who is interested, but the girls have to be just as open minded as you want the houses to be and not have pre-conceived notions about a particular house because it's not "top tier" (which is again meaningless and those are not really the best houses just the most popular)[/quote]

You keep blaming girls for wanting “top tier” and “popular” houses but if there are 13 houses and a girl gets one bid at the end of the week that’s literally the only one the girl didn’t want, you’re telling her to take it, or she’s an [b]ungrateful snob[/b].  You grown women who support this bs are horrendous. Blaming 18 year old girls who want to find a place to belong for not wanting one house as of this is THIER problem. There are 12 houses they would have been happy with.  If they don’t end up with three houses to pick from on the last night, that’s on YOU. Organize a more humane rush or quit pretending it has anything to do with “matching”. [/quote]

Calm down. NO ONE is telling the girls they are ungrateful snobs but YOU. Just people said that sororities are difficult to get into or exclusionary and that's not 100% true. there ARE houses you can get into. Whether or not the girl wants it, is her choice entirely, but people on this board make it seem that 1000 girls rush and 200 get in. In reality, 1000 may rush, 400 probably drop out and the rest find a home.[/quote]

That's 40% that dropped/didn't get a house they wanted.  That's not a few people don't find a house[/quote]

But my point is how do they know those houses are the places they should be?  They dropped before even getting to know them, which is honestly just like the houses dropping the girls at the first cut.  but regardless again, it's a tough process and yeah some people hate it. Some enjoy it. No need to get yourself all in a huff about it.  If your DD doesn't want to rush, she shouldn't. If she does, I'm just trying to give the advice to get to know the houses that you have left even if you have a painful cut.[/quote]

Maybe they dropped because they realized how cruel and ridiculous the process is.  Being judged based on what you wear, how you look, how much money your parents make, etc is c
lusion and and the cruel process that cause some girls to drop who are just looking for their group is sad!  The entire process is set up to be exclusionary.  It's just the MS/HS social hierarchy taken to a new level of craziness and meanness.  [/quote]

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