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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]Came across this sorority house. My college didn’t have sororities, but this looks amazing. Way better than any hisie I’ve ever lived in.

https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/10/take_a_look_inside_the_new_13.html[/quote]

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well.  #richkids[/quote]

My kid is starting at Bama next week. I am shocked by the wealth on campus. The entire campus is gorgeous: buildings and students. The sorority houses are so picture perfect they look fake. Everyone on campus is super fit. The posts I see on the Bama moms groups indicate their homes are similarly upscale. Everyone is very, very friendly. The moms have local meet ups (including in the dc metro area). They literally offer to drive kids to/from campus, the airport, etc.

Their network is vast. The parent groups hook up kids for internships, jobs, housing, etc. It’s so unlike anything I expected.

I’ve met some kids from the Bama Greek groups, and they are very outgoing, confident, and friendly. Upperclassmen are volunteering to help students move in, move furniture, etc.

I know the Bama Rush Tik Toks are over the top. But I would encourage everyone to reserve labeling everyone. [/quote]

Yes, everyone is “so sweet” on the surface.  But you will never actually be their friend. Those circles are closed and they have prepped their girls for two years to rush “successfully” (staged social media, football games with social strategy, and networking to meet older girls who will then lobby for them during rush.)  Their homes are nice because that’s important to southern women in general and property taxes and housing are so inexpensive, they can afford to fuss over their house with the help of their 19 friends who all own interior decorating stores and their 10 friends who all have little art studios. [/quote]
weird, my daughter was in a sorority at Alabama (from the north) and has been in/to many weddings for her sorority friends, roomed with two after college, gets together with them regularly...I think you spend too much time on the internet.[/quote]

No sweetheart. I lived there.  [/quote]

They didn't like you, and so you concluded that it's them, not you, right?  [/quote]

Ah, yes.  Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course. [/quote]
NP. [b]Which is?[/b][/quote]

Southern social structure regarding “who you are” (your granddaddy, your family name, your lineage)[/quote]

I’m a Marylander who was never in a sorority, but I know Maryland girls in sororities at Bama, other SEC schools, and other southern schools.

In short: the exclusivity you speak of isn’t a barrier anymore. Looks, personality, and the perception of money trump southern roots and legacy ties. Fact.

Heck, I know some larger girls living it up in Bama sororities. They are fun girls with lots of money, fwiw. [/quote]

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