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University:  New York University - NYU

Greek Organization:  Alpha Sigma Tau

Author:  soap

Comment:  came out for nyu formal recruitment this past month, went through pref and decided going thru to bid day wasn't the right choice for me atm because of personal circumstances but i wanted to hop on to give my two cents cause i've been seeing a lot of very polarized ratings about ast. so first things first, no they do not have a traditional sorority vibe and if that's not what ur looking for that's fine but it's not an excuse to drag them. the girls are very laid back but i don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, they didn't put on false personas during recruitment so when they asked me things about myself and how i was feeling i got the sense that they actually did care about my answer. active members all genuinely do seem to get along, in conversations i had with them it didn't feel like an interview, i just felt like i was getting to know an aquaintance. their actives are all super welcoming and kind, i saw them in one of the last rounds of day one after we'd been asked to take our bags back to e&l (so we had been going without water for a while at this point) and the actives took the time to make sure everyone got something to drink or a snack, and made sure we were feeling ok right at the start, half of the other orgs i visited who brought snacks didn't even offer snacks they had on display to pnms and i got the sense it was more for the actives to have between rounds (which ok, that's fair but you could also just be transparent about that?). and if you want to talk about diversity in nyu panhel, ast and dphie are the only sororities who are actually doing an ok job with it. during formal so many other orgs preached about how diversity was so important to them and then only proceeded to give bids to woc who were skinny with VERY euro-centric features. ast is in the minority of orgs who actually recruit based on personality and will give bids to girls who are plus sized and/or don't fit into a white beauty standard. overall, they didn't put on the showiest recruitment out of the panhel orgs but i've also heard that they have a lot of actives studying abroad this semester so leadership was stretched pretty thin. i think a lot of these new ratings have been coming from pnms who cared more about how much orgs chose to spend on their recruitment themes and decorations than anything else, personally i don't see the lack of extravagance as a con when the girls are welcoming, fun to talk to, and they've got some of the best rates for dues out of all of panhel.