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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole rush process is demented.  I don't know about SLACs, but I went to UGA 30 years ago, and it was bad then.  From what I hear from friend's kids, social media has not made it better/[/quote]

My DC is at my alma mater (where I was in a sorority) and I can conclusively say that social media has made the entire process much worse. This school (not Bama!) has had some students with fairly high social media profiles and the number of women going out for rush and having their hearts set on the “top” houses has ballooned. What used to be just an informal, niche, rumor mill kind of “ranking” system has become very entrenched and documented on the internet/social media and now everyone thinks they’re a failure if they don’t pledge XYZ house. That thing about having a bid for everyone? Doesn’t work that way anymore. Too many girls. It’s kind of interesting — the boys seem unaffected by it and, if anything, less interested in frats. Guys are still rushing, but numbers are down, and plenty of guys are looking at the pledge process (hazing) and saying “no thanks.”  Social media ruins everything. [/quote]

Agree.  At my DD’s school, rush for the girls was the miserable, one bid nightmare the girls fear. Run by a grad student who didn’t care about the girls’ experiences at all. They didn’t open enough spaces for the increased enrollment to intentionally force the one unpopular house to grow, counting on all those one bid girls to settle instead of quit: USING those girls, their first college experience, and their emotions to reach their goals of saving that house.

The boys on the other hand just dirty rush, no formal recruitment.  So laid back.

Immature women just love to hurt other women and rush lets them pick “winners” and “losers” and continuing the hierarchy that they claim doesn’t exist but secretly love and take pride in. And all of this misery is endorsed by the school and the directors of recruitment.  At this school, it got so bad that mothers were telling their girls to go to a different state U of they wanted to rush. 
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[b]All schools give girls one bid.[/b]

Another my daughter was too good for the sorority she gotten into so the system is judgmental and superficial, but my kid is not post.[/quote]

This is not true. At my DC’s school, there were only enough bids for about 50% of the girls who went through rush.

And my DC is a boy, so I don’t have any personal interest in it. I just heard a lot about the aftermath, and it wasn’t pretty. [/quote]

I’m sure as a mom of a college aged boy you have more accurate info than a woman who handled in charge of rush at her sorority.  [/quote]

And once again, just because your sorority at your school doesn't do it does NOT mean it doesn't happen elsewhere. You only have accurate information about rush at your sorority at your school. 
There are hundreds of schools that Rush. 
Plenty of people are stating that NOT EVERYONE gets bids at their school.  So it obviously happens at many schools.  [/quote]

No, it isn’t obvious.  Identify the school where you claim not everyone gets bids so we can get to the bottom of this.  [/quote]

Identify yourself so we can understand why you, internet stranger, are capable of getting to the bottom of this. [/quote]

Umm,  I know  how to use google  and look up rush at a particular university.  Which we all could do, but it seems to be more fun to make up horror stories for some here.

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I am a PP that shared my daughter’s experience and resulting feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. It is definitely not made up. I am still living it on the phone with her often 3 weeks out. [/quote]

I’m so sorry. We went through it too and I know how upsetting and painful it is for them- and therefore us. [/quote]

Glass half full is now is an amazing opportunity to do some outstanding parenting on the ills of the world and get them on the right track!  [/quote]

As if they didn’t just go through those things in high school and were looking forward to a fresh, new experience.  That’s why having this the week they show is especially cruel. [/quote]

It will happen the rest of their life in various situations hence the parenting part.  Resiliency is an actual thing and parenting is a verb, good luck!  [/quote]

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