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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister went to a big, Southern college. Rush was the week before fall classes. She went early and moved in and my mom didn’t stay (she was in a sorority too, so got the process(.

On day 2, after getting called back from about 5 houses, she decided that she didn’t want a sorority after all. Neither did a couple of other girls on her hall.

The 3 of them spent the week together, exploring the town and getting to know each other. 20 years later they are still good friends.

Had a parent been there, she’d have missed the chance to make those friends, and probably felt more pressure from my mom to go through the rest of rush week. [/quote]

Cool story, bro. Life is full of “sliding doors” scenarios.
But, of course, the alternate version of this is that Mom stays—encourages daughter to “stick it out” and she ends up pledging one of the amazing houses full of girls who were very excited to extend an invitation to her and made lifelong connections to those girls.
Maybe she also gets to be friends with the other girls on her hall...maybe she doesn’t. 
I’m glad your sister is happy with how things turned out. But who knows what was behind Door #3...life is often like that.[/quote]

Or, whether or not Mom stayed in town, Sis could have pledge a sorority and gone on [b]to inflict pain on other women [/b]by playing the spiteful shallow mean girl game.    [/quote]

What a bizarre reaction to paint with such a broad brush. Yes, there is always that top-performing group during recruitment week that is so skilled at marketing their group that everyone wants to join--but they are not allowed to invite EVERY SINGLE PERSON to join at the end of the week.  But that doesn't make those girls mean. If they invited all 1800 young women to join their group then they would have 3,500 members in one group and 30 in another. How would the "less popular" group survive?? The way the system is set up is meant to support MANY different opportunities for the maximum number of women. It's PRO-woman!! Sororities are inherently feminist women-only spaces!!
Do you think the girls who drop out when they don't get the house they want (but who are rejecting the girls in the house who wanted THEM) are similarly mean???

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