UGA Sorority Recruitment

AlphaChiCutie · #1 07-09-2003, 01:01 PM

I'm a UGA AXO, and I just wondered if anyone out there was from UGA or had heard anything about our rush. I've always heard that it was the 2nd most competitive in the country behind Ole Miss. Usually 1300 girls go through in the fall. Last year quota was 59 for the 18 chapters on campus.

33girl · #2 07-09-2003, 01:03 PM

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ghlight=uga%2A

carnation · #3 07-09-2003, 01:16 PM

I dread UGa rush every year. It never fails--these fantastic girls from our area get blasted away after second parties. Two girls who are in your chapter right now were cut by a whole bunch of groups and I was devastated for them--one is a National Merit Scholar, gorgeous, has great activities--what were these sororities looking for? Alpha Chi got a fabulous deal in these 2--y'all are so lucky to have them--but the older one told me that had she known what rush there would be like, she never would've done it.

White_Chocolate · #4 07-09-2003, 01:19 PM

one of my friends was scared to go through rush at UGA because of the way we heard that black girls weren't given bids into sororities
it's too bad because she would have been a great sister

AlphaChiCutie · #5 07-09-2003, 01:27 PM

It's not that african american girls would be denied bids...none go through recruitment, and, therefore, there are none to give bids TO. The NPHC sororities are good at UGA, so they traditionally have been going there.

JohnsDGsweethrt · #6 07-09-2003, 01:36 PM

The only stories I've heard have been from GC. I've just heard that multiply legacies get cut but this has to happen b/c more legacies go though then are bid spots available. It just must be stressful on all sisters and PNMs! Good luck to anyone going through UGA rush on either side!

trisigmaAtl · #7 07-09-2003, 03:45 PM

alphachicutie:

I went to high school with one of your sisters. Her name is Roxanne and her last initial is A. (don't want to give out her whole name over the internet

). She's a sweetie and was very popular as well as academic in HS, we're not very close but we have a very close mutual friend. Just wanted to make my AXO connection.

Jill1228 · #8 07-10-2003, 01:21 AM

I dunno about that.

Here are some disturbing links

http://racerelations.about.com/libra.../aa092500a.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/07/sorority.suspended.ap/

http://www.time.com/time/education/a...,59389,00.html

Quote:

Originally posted by AlphaChiCutie
It's not that african american girls would be denied bids...none go through recruitment, and, therefore, there are none to give bids TO. The NPHC sororities are good at UGA, so they traditionally have been going there.

courtneyanne · #9 02-20-2007, 09:22 PM

Hi! I don't really know much about the whole sorority scene, but I'm thinking about it. Why does recruitment start so early? May?! that's kinda ridiculous...

xoxo Courtney

SmartBlondeGPhB · #10 02-20-2007, 09:48 PM

This thread is almost 4 years so you probably don't want to go by it. Recruitment will be in the Fall, though you will want to be preparing for it earlier than that.

UGAalum94 · #11 02-20-2007, 10:18 PM

Just because the new posts brought this back to the top of the forum, I want to point out that some of the linked articles have some information that's pretty troubling for a lot of different reasons.

If you look into the follow up, most of what was reported was based on the accusations of one former member, and couldn't really be substantiated by the schools investigation. (The recreated dialog at the start of the Time article is particularly inflammatory seeing as at most the story could have had one source for it and no way of assessing her reliability.)

I have absolutely no insider information; I've just read the later press releases.

It's interesting to me, but rarely noted in the rush to single out the accusations against my former chapter, that the woman also participated in formal rush at 17 other chapters and didn't get a bid. Are we to conclude that one sorority discriminates on the basis of race, and the others were just a coincidence?

I find it peculiar to say the least that UGA doesn't have a fully racially integrated Greek system. It would seem to me that race must play a factor in the mutual selection process or this outcome would be unlikely.

I'd love to see my chapter rush some of the excellent black young women at UGA. I know they are out there; I taught some in high school, and nothing would make me happier than to write recs for them. But I've yet to have any that I know go through rush.

In recruitments with quota and chapter total, very few of the chapters have the option to recruit members who don't go through formal recruitment. Typically, chapters who COB or COR aren't regarded as the strongest chapters and because of this, they may be especially cautious, conservative, or even backwards about race and membership.

Again, I was long gone by 2000 when I think this case took place, and I don't know what took place in membership selection, even if I were disposed to violate ritual and blab to GreekChat. This is just my opinion and speculation.

smiley21 · #12 02-26-2007, 12:40 PM

I am on UGA's campus right now. My best friend/sorority sister is thinking about coming here for grad school and she wanted me to visit the campus with her. I have never been here before, and I really like it here. It is a beautiful campus. Just had to say that

AGDLynn · #13 02-27-2007, 07:53 PM

Hey, my niece is an ADPi at UGA and lives with 2 KDs.

Mercergirl2010 · #14 02-27-2007, 09:35 PM

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UGAalum94 · #15 02-27-2007, 09:41 PM

Me too, but I'm not sure it went down exactly as described in the article. No matter what, I wish the UGA greek system were completely inclusive and more integrated by race than it is. As far as I know, I still don't think it's changed, and that's sad.