Reply to Sorority Rush

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Sorority Rush"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a first gen student. I had zero interest in joining a sorority. Nobody in my social group growing  up had any experience with them, so it was not on my radar.

Moving forward, my daughter is rushing this week. We are supporting her, a little reluctantly though. All the girls she has met her first semester are also rushing. Her school does not ask for recommendation letters from previous members, thank God, because we really don’t have those connections.

My question is, how disadvantaged is a first gen student who is rushing at one of the schools where they still ask for rec letters?  Is that system in place to continue keeping the “poors” out of the greek system?  Also, don’t get me started on how expensive some of those soroties cost. Just another reason why they are so out of reach for most first gen students. [/quote]

First generation students get recs by networking.  It's an early lesson in networking.  You start asking teachers and members of your church and your friends' moms and coaches if they were in a sorority.  There are also alumni Panhel organizations which can help out with networking and getting recs.  Recs don't keep first gen students out of the system.  Also, during recruitmet, if a sorority wants a particular person, they will make sure that the PNM is introduced to an alumna during a recruitment event and the alumna will write a rec if necessary.  I did that for a couple of years for my sorority as a new alumna. (Thankfully, we don't require recs anymore.)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics