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Anonymous wrote: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

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

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.

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.

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.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

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

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

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

DP. Except it's already been established (repeatedly) that most schools - in both the south AND the north - have greek systems. Why are you fixated on the south?

The title of the thread (and the initial exchange with another poster) is about a sorority in Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

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.

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.

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.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

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

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

NP. Which is?

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

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Anonymous wrote: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

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

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.

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.

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.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

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

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

NP. Which is?

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

DP. Except it's already been established (repeatedly) that most schools - in both the south AND the north - have greek systems. Why are you fixated on the south?

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Anonymous wrote: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

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

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.

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.

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.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

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

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

NP. Which is?

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

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Anonymous wrote: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

Greek life is huge at Alabama and it is a huge cost as well. #richkids

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.

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.

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.

No sweetheart. I lived there.

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

Ah, yes. Because it couldn’t possibly be that there’s something you don’t know anything about. Of course.

NP. Which is?

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Anonymous wrote: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

Sorority houses vary campus to campus and the more recent a house the more likely it will be similar to this. Remember sororities have had a lot more years to build up coffers and these houses are financed by the org not the school or chapter. And girls pay to live there - normally the cost is commiserate with a. regular dorm / meal plan on campus. Again this varies school to school in regards to cost.

A truly fascinating aspect of Bama greek life is “The Machine”. Google will bring up references and articles and basically it is a informal greek life infrastructure that is suggested to not only run greek life at the school but also heavily weighs in on school matters and even state govt matters. It makes for an entertaining read. I suspect there is a kernel truth somewhere in there with a huge amount of make believe heaped on the top.

Anonymous wrote: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

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

Who is shallow? Methinks the person who spends time and money on makeup and hair consultations and clothing specifically to belong to a group.

Hmm, so you never spend time and money on makeup and hair? C'mon lady take the loss. You are taking entirely too much time to hate something you know nothing about and contradicting yourself. You are not some virtuous angel so stop with the front.

No. I never hired a consultant for hair and makeup ever. Have you. That is over the top for rushing a sorority, sorry. For a wedding, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

Who is shallow? Methinks the person who spends time and money on makeup and hair consultations and clothing specifically to belong to a group.

Hmm, so you never spend time and money on makeup and hair? C'mon lady take the loss. You are taking entirely too much time to hate something you know nothing about and contradicting yourself. You are not some virtuous angel so stop with the front.

No. I never hired a consultant for hair and makeup ever. Have you. That is over the top for rushing a sorority, sorry. For a wedding, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

Who is shallow? Methinks the person who spends time and money on makeup and hair consultations and clothing specifically to belong to a group.

Hmm, so you never spend time and money on makeup and hair? C'mon lady take the loss. You are taking entirely too much time to hate something you know nothing about and contradicting yourself. You are not some virtuous angel so stop with the front.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I had to click on this thread.

I have a friend whose daughter pledged a sorority at Bama (I don't know where she ended up), and to see what this mom went through to prep her daughter was shocking and worrisome. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe, makeup and hair consultations, letters of recommendation (yes she posted on FB looking for people to write letters for her daughter), etc. It was truly ridiculous. But she and I are vastly different in the way we approach life in general.

Oh my, you seem like a shallow human who has a "friend" that if able to read your post would put you in your place because you are obviously anything but a friend.

Who is shallow? Methinks the person who spends time and money on makeup and hair consultations and clothing specifically to belong to a group.