College Sororities - Sad and Confused......kinda of long sorry

[mykidsand_i]

I think it's great that sororities do charity work, but where is their charity towards the young women who don't receive bids?

In order to be in a sorority, their GPA needed to be high and they needed to be doing well in school. The only girls who got a rejection from our sorority were the ones who applied and had poor GPA or they were the ones who were only wanting in it to party (we KNEW which ones only applied because they only wanted to party!!!)

AND, I did mention that we did tutoring for those that needed/requested it from the college. I tutored 3 different girls that were rejected from our sorority, so their grades could get back up and they could try to get into our house again...I did this as part of our volunteer work (other girls did as well)...so there's your answer to the "where is their charity towards the young women who don't receive bids?" question...

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

Sounds like a horrible experience. By way of contrast we would go run errands on Friday afternoon with curlers in our hair in preparation for parties that night. No one cared 2 cents... we had fun.

I was told what I could wear and couldn't wear, how my makeup was to look every day, and what I could and couldn't say in public. I once stepped out the back door of the sorority house with hot rollers in my hair (yeah, back in the day!) to check the mail. That prompted a call-down by three really nasty leaders of the house. They threatened to kick me out...even though the back door was not visible to anyone except the sorority members...and even though the mailbox was two feet from the door.

The costs for the house were high, the designated "friendships" were worthless, and the so-called "community service" was faked hours to placate panhellenic. The experience ended up being so bad that I left the university.

I'm glad to say that sorority is no longer chartered on the campus I attended.

 

[Jking@archkckcs.org]

These are great thoughts- I will share with my daughter.

 

[onelilspark]

These are great thoughts- I will share with my daughter.

I hope you share the good with the bad.

Also...I can't believe this thread is still going...