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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The racist sororities are not going to give her a bid.

Cast a wide net.[/quote]

I don’t know how VT or UVA sororities would be, but at JMU there would be absolutely no problem.[/quote]

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I would say that about all the VA schools.[/quote]

Really ? Can you name a sorority that has a diverse group of girls?[/quote]

as I posted earlier, my dd's sorority at UVA is quite diverse. I am not going to name it because I don't want to put personal info out there but it's a "middle tier" sorority. She has lots of friends from all ethnicities and actually those considered to be "minorities' actually had more options during rush than she did and she is a white girl.  I think the houses are trying to be more inclusive and placed high value on URM.  I know several of her friends in "top" houses that are URM, but again as someone else mentioned, UVA is really quite diverse so you do not any thing to fear. My DS is in a fraternity at UVA and he is in the minority as a white guy.[/quote]

You won’t post the name because we can look up their pictures and see they are not actually diverse.[/quote]

DP here.  I also had a daughter -- actually, two daughters -- in the same UVA sorority several years apart.  I supposed it's a "middle tier" one in the sense that it wasn't all rich kids or scholarship athletes, but it was certainly a well respected one.  While it was majority white, so is UVA as a whole.  It absolutely did have many women of color.  The stereotype of the sorority girl being a rich blonde bimbo doesn't apply at UVA.  Neither of my daughters were like that at all.

The animosity that so many DCUM women have against sororities is pretty silly.  I can't help but think that it's because of their own college baggage, where they were a little too nerdy to be accepted into any sorority themselves.  [/quote]

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