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Originally Posted by 33girl
Looks/appearance figure into it, sure. But so does Gpa, extracurricular involvement, and personality. You assign a value to each of those things and average them out somehow.
Every group does this a little differently, and I’m betting every chapter does it differently. (I seriously doubt that the ABC chapter with 39 members follows the same procedure as the ABC chapter with 409 members.)
If, as described in the Beta Delta letter, you have a woman come through who is beloved by everyone in the chapter who knows her, has extracurricular involvement and good grades - and your national is telling you to kick her to the curb because her looks are inadequate- that’s what everyone is saying is completely wrong.
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So question.... (and you know me, so you know I am coming from a place of understanding and not disrespect)
Why should looks figure into it at all?
For example, what if there is a category that says whether or not a PNM has a professional or put-together hair style.
Then a black or biracial girl comes in with dreadlocks.
What happens when Karen with the clipboard decides to take points off because she has never seen a black hairstyle?
Or a Muslim woman who covers?
I guess what I am saying as an outsider to the process is that what Alpha Phi is alleged to be doing doesn't seem that much different from what the system does as a whole. It's just that one way is codified and organized and the other way is more casual.
