next year 2018

No one is being a snowflake here. They are trying to tell her what is going with the MS controlled Greek life at Ole Miss-which is now magnified since variable quota started.

No, you don't understand the issue correctly. It sounds like no amount of explaining will help you get it. Good luck in your life. Sounds like you have everything figured out inside your narrow minded guilded cage.

@Nope - So I'm narrow minded? Let's see, I decided to give my sorority a chance, meet people and make friends. I could have thought I was too good for them and whined about how important I am. But instead I found my sisters are amazing, some were very popular in high school, some are more studious, some are a little socially awkward, but they are nice and interesting.

But then again, we can't all be as open minded and as special as you are.

@ Trying to figure it out

THANK YOU!! You perfectly said what I've thought for a while.

I'm so tired of PNMs being brainwashed that there are only a couple of acceptable sororities. There are 400-500 girls in each house. If you can't give it a try and make new friends then you're probably not cut out for socializing in any house. Also the OOS students often attend Ole Miss because their grades and accomplishments earn free tuition of other scholarships. Why would they be considered less desirable or "lower" than an in-state student in an MS sorority. Neither is lower, is my point. It's insular snobbery and the OOS girls are buying into it.

I can understand if you are a Mississippi girl and you have been raised to believe XYZ is the only sorority you can join and if it doesn't happen your life is over. However, how are so many OOS girls buying into this insanity? Every sorority on this campus offers what a sorority is suppose to offer - friendship and sisterhood - if you decide to participate. Most of us from OOS aren't sticking around Mississippi after graduation anyway, so we aren't here looking for a Mississippi frat guy to take home to Mommie. Honestly, most of these Mississippi people couldn't make it outside of Mississippi anyway.

It doesn't bother me in the least that the Mississippi girls want to stay together, but I seriously can't figure out why so many OOS girls are upset not to be in there with them. It almost defeats the purpose of moving away from home to experience life outside of High School.

The reality is that ChiO is now the only MS sorority on campus, and they have become kind of irrelevant--no one really talked about them in my rush group.

KD, DG, and DDD are at least 50% OOS based on recent pledge classes (these are currently the most desired houses in my opinion). The rest of the sororities are majority OOS and they are also great. Therefore there are plenty of opportunities for OOS girls in all but one of the sororities (and very few are even interested in that one). It's important to make connections with actives and have strong recommendations and letters of support.

Although it is true that KD, DG and DDD do recruit OOS students, those students come with strong Ole Miss connections AND Memphis doesn't count as OOS. You're still looking at very defined areas of recruitment and very specific High Schools even with these three. If you are coming here without connections and especially from OOR your strongest recruitment opportunities will come from any of the other sororitys. Those other sororitys will (actually have to) recruit based on resume and are getting the better resumed OOS/OOR girls. Which is why I can't understand how any OOS, especially OOR, girls feel 'out of place'. The way I see it is Sorority Row is mostly the Mississippi/Ole Miss Legacies (especially since Variable Quota) and Rebel Row is mostly the OOS/OOR students and both are great places to be.