North Carolina Chapel Hill Recruitment

[cmb]

Hello all,

My daughter's friend is currently a freshman and is wanting to transfer to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall as a sophomore. She is very interested in going through recruitment, and if she does decide to transfer and go through recruitment in the fall, I have offered to write her a reference letter. However, she is very worried about being an Asian sophomore transfer and rushing at a university like UNC. I would very much like to give her advice but do not know how recruitment is like at UNC. Are her chances hindered? Do sophomores typically go through recruitment at UNC? Is there a good amount of Asians that go through Panhellenic recruitment and receive bids? She is extremely worried about transferring and not getting a bid, so I just want to be able to prepare her or reassure her in any way.

Thank you in advance!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by cmb

Hello all,

My daughter's friend is currently a freshman and is wanting to transfer to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall as a sophomore. She is very interested in going through recruitment, and if she does decide to transfer and go through recruitment in the fall, I have offered to write her a reference letter. However, she is very worried about being an Asian sophomore transfer and rushing at a university like UNC. I would very much like to give her advice but do not know how recruitment is like at UNC. Are her chances hindered? Do sophomores typically go through recruitment at UNC? Is there a good amount of Asians that go through Panhellenic recruitment and receive bids? She is extremely worried about transferring and not getting a bid, so I just want to be able to prepare her or reassure her in any way.

Thank you in advance!

Feeling extra nice today so:

Rushing as a sophomore at UNC:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ghlight=Chapel

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ghlight=Chapel

Sophomore transfer recruitment story from UNC:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ghlight=Chapel

[mmb77]

Does anyone have any more advice/insight about this and cmb's post?

[FSUZeta]

what do you want to know?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by mmb77

Does anyone have any more advice/insight about this and cmb's post?

You mean other than what's contained in the discussions linked in KSUViolet's post in this thread and in her post in the similar thread you started back in November?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by cmb

Is there a good amount of Asians that go through Panhellenic recruitment and receive bids?

Go to the chapter websites. Look at the pictures. Play Where's Waldo with the Asians. The End.

[indygphib]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Go to the chapter websites. Look at the pictures. Play Where's Waldo with the Asians. The End.

*dead*

[MandyPepperidge]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Go to the chapter websites. Look at the pictures. Play Where's Waldo with the Asians. The End.

LOLz.

[absum]

I can tell you that it's not going to be an ideal situation, but it's by no means a lost cause. Not many Asians go through "white" recruitment at UNC and fewer get picked up. I have an Asian friend who rushed as a sophomore at Carolina and only got asked back to one house, one that apparently needed to meet quota badly and had a bad rep. It makes a difference if she was raised "white" or was adopted, or raised as the child of immigrants.

She'll have to try that much harder to impress during rush to offset being older (and only good for three years to a sorority, instead of four) and not white, but it's not hopeless...it's not an anomaly to have a few non-whites in UNC sororities, it's just not as easy for them to get a bid as it is for white girls. Her chances may improve if she's an North Carolina native, which gives her a better opportunity to be known specifically and peripherally by the mostly-NC sorority girls rather than be forgotten during bid sessions. The same goes if she has a high school friend or acquaintance in a UNC sorority already--some sororities end up being town- or high school-specific, with as many as four or even five girls from the same school in the same pledge class. Good recs are important too.

If she has a bad recruitment experience or ends up not participating for whatever reason in NPC life (drops out of rush, no bids, refuses a bid, whatever), it's worth knowing that a lot of Asians go into major- or interest-specific co-ed fraternities...my friend ended up in one and enjoys it immensely.

Good luck to her and to you!

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by absum

I can tell you that it's not going to be an ideal situation, but it's by no means a lost cause. Not many Asians go through "white" recruitment at UNC and fewer get picked up. I have an Asian friend who rushed as a sophomore at Carolina and only got asked back to one house, one that apparently needed to meet quota badly and had a bad rep. It makes a difference if she was raised "white" or was adopted, or raised as the child of immigrants.

She'll have to try that much harder to impress during rush to offset being older (and only good for three years to a sorority, instead of four) and not white, but it's not hopeless...it's not an anomaly to have a few non-whites in UNC sororities, it's just not as easy for them to get a bid as it is for white girls. Her chances may improve if she's an North Carolina native, which gives her a better opportunity to be known specifically and peripherally by the mostly-NC sorority girls rather than be forgotten during bid sessions. The same goes if she has a high school friend or acquaintance in a UNC sorority already--some sororities end up being town- or high school-specific, with as many as four or even five girls from the same school in the same pledge class. Good recs are important too.

If she has a bad recruitment experience or ends up not participating for whatever reason in NPC life (drops out of rush, no bids, refuses a bid, whatever), it's worth knowing that a lot of Asians go into major- or interest-specific co-ed fraternities...my friend ended up in one and enjoys it immensely.

Good luck to her and to you!

How does one make up/impress for not being white?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

How does one make up/impress for not being white?

First I thought of all the snarky, witty and/or sarcastic comments I could make, but then I just got sad that people actually THINK like that.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

How does one make up/impress for not being white?

By being "raised white."

Can we possibly hope that this is volleyball_girl, miss_etiquette, remmie_k . . . ? 'Cause I hate to think she's for real.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

By being "raised white."

Can we possibly hope that this is volleyball_girl, miss_etiquette, remmie_k . . . ? 'Cause I hate to think she's for real.

I don't know, is having an Asian friend acceptable for the hoitiest of the toitiest?

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I don't know, is having an Asian friend acceptable for the hoitiest of the toitiest?

I thought it was the IT thing right now!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I thought it was the IT thing right now!

Crap, I should do a Stephen Colbert style audition for a new Asian best friend then. I haven't talked to my last Asian best friend in a while


/This comes into play at some point here.