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Poster Name:
Dean

Poster Message:
As another OOS person I of course agree we have our own set of attributes that we bring to the table but there are 2 Important pieces to this... First being (and if you’ve been a member of your fraternity or sorority long enough to be on the other side of rush you know this too) the members pick the new members. So if you went to X high school, and 50+ girls form X high school are going through rush, and your sorority is made up of 75 other girls who went to X high school....don’t you think you are going to want to take those girls you knew or your sisters knew as new members? Substitute high school with camp, church, whatever. The very Alabama sororities will keep picking mostly girls they know from high school with a few others sprinkled in....Greek communities have control over their memberships. They can let in whoever they want and drop whoever they want. They don’t “need” to start having a better balance. The second piece is legacies. Of course we know some legacies get cut during rush, but the ones who don’t are usually in house or had a parent in house. Like if I’m a legacy to ABC because my mom was an ABC at some other school, and my roomie is a legacy to ABC but her mom, grandma, and older sister were all ABCs here at Bama and they have to make a cut on legacies at this point....they’re gonna cut me instead. When you cut a legacy (at least in my chapter) you have to call the legacy’s parent or whoever is the member making them the legacy and tell them...it sucks. Much easier to call someone who is a legacy with no connection locally here vs a legacy who is was and still is involved with the chapter at the local level.