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by: But seriouslyYou'll be happy in any house. You'll be estactic if you join a house that you find people with similar interest to you. In houses of 300+ women, you're more than likely going to meet your new best friend no matter what letters you wear. Stereotypes are just generalizations of types of people you may find in each house, but tue don't necessarily mean that every single girl in the house fits that stereotype. That's why we say keep an open mind and trust the system. At the end of your 4 years here you're not going to care what letters you wore, you're only going to care that you made lifelong friends and that you have awesome memories from college. If you obsess over the petty things like the letter you wear, you'll have a hard time enjoying yourself and will probably end up hating the Greek system all together. So don't let letters define you. Join a house where you feel comfortable. Make friends. Have fun. Go Greek.
Comment#2by: SO
You are saying that any woman can be happy in any house and it doesn't matter which one? I don't agree with that. I think a woman should choose where she wants to be based on where she feels the most comfortable and welcome and where she feels she has the most in common with other members -- and the letters are merely an outward manifestation of that. I could no more be happy in a house where academics aren't important than someone with a 22 ACT and a 2.7 in high school would be happy in my house. There are differences in sororities and the letters are important because they represent the values and priorities of what's behind them. ALL HOUSES ARE NOT ALIKE and the letters you wear are not petty at all.
by: Except...
Values are values. Priorities are priorities. If a house has the reputation for not giving a rip about grades and is near the bottom of the list of sorority gpa's, I'm not interested. If a house has a reputation for fake baking or partying all the time, it attracts others like that and it likely would be difficult to find my niche in that house. On the other hand, if your grades don't matter to you and academics aren't a priority, why would you join a house that monitors your grades weekly and requires that you sign in with a proctor when you study. This isn't about being open minded. It's about being realistic. The OP reflects a nice sentiment, but the reality is that different houses attract different types of girls. For the greatest chance at happiness and acceptance, keep that in mind.
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#3by: Grades
If you think a house with a 3.2 goa doesn't have grade checks and mandatory study hours and proctors your wrong! They do. They just happen to take a mix of girls. They don't just take the type A, 4.0, I'm better than everyone, belonged to every club in high school type., uber competitive chick. They take smart girls, average girls, rich girls, poor girls, small town girls, big city girls, they just may not have. A 25 on the act and maybe they weren't in every club but they are still awesome girls and have something great they can add to the house they join. Maybe they had to work and couldn't be as involved, maybe they did a competitive sport outside of high school and what they did at school was limited by that. I would say these houses have more variety and diversity where as the smart houses only take one type.
So get off your high horse and realize it takes all types to make a great sisterhood!!!!
by: Thank you
Well said. My house values grades and has a 3.2 house average like many do. Some of us are way above that and some aren't. We have study hours too. We have a variety of types in our house and I love it. I don't want to be in a house where everyone is the same. I love my academic oriented sisters but also have a lot of fun with my sisters who like to party.
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#4by: Whoa
I think you owe a lot of houses an apology. I can assure you houses that value grades don't just have a bunch of nerds walking around with their heads in a physics book. That stereotype is so outdated and so wrong. We are at the top of the grade list and we have a wide range of girls: city girls, country girls rich girls, poor girls and most of them had a job in high school. I don't know anyone in my house who belonged to every club in high school or who think they are better than anyone else. And while we make academics a priority, we are just as well-rounded in college as we were in high school. I HATE it when people don't know what they are talking about when it comes to top tier houses. I get it. You didn't visit my house each day of rush, but that is NO REASON to paint with a broad brush and assign unfair stereotypes to our members. And why does putting someone else down make you feel better?
by: True
Everything you just said is true about all of the houses no matter what tier. They all have a wide range of girls and none of them deserve to be stereotyped or put down. The constant need for people to feel like they are top by taking someone else down is ridiculous. All of our houses are a lot more alike than different and unless you've been a part of that house or personally know all 300 plus members, your insight is severely limited and not worth listening to. People need to seriously act like adults and not like they are still in middle or high school.
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by: Double standard
So it's ok to say a house with a lower gap doesn't take academics seriously, but not ok to say you go after one type of girl? Girls paint the broad brush daily on houses., painting a picture of generalized rumors that gets told over and over. Why should you be excluded from the fun?
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by: Wondering
by: 4.0
Not everyone is a 4.0 student. does it mean they don't take academics seriously? No!!! Since when is getting a "b" average in college awful? Seriously!
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by: Seriously
Top house is 3.4 ish and everybody else is around a 3.2 ish.!That doesn't exactly make the top house light years ahead. If they had a 3.9 or 4.0 then it would be a big difference.
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#6by: Unbelievable
I can't believe there are people in this day and age who think being a good student is a negative, and that working hard to get good grades is a reason for ridicule. This is 2015. We aren't here just to party and have fun. We are here to prepare for challenging careers and/or to get into strong master's programs. Some, but not all, of us can do both. But when the people who can't do both hold good students up to ridicule, that really is unfair. If the implication is that everyone in the houses with the top GPA's (including PiPhi, Tri Delta and ChiO for the most recent official posting from fall 2015) thinks "they are better than everyone else," well, that is so wrong. Some people need to put away their inferiority complex and take pride in the fact that these fine houses raise the image of all sororities.
by: raise the bar
My issue isn't with your house making great grades, it's with you saying a house who has a 3.3 or below must not be focused on grades and they are beneath you and don't care about academics. It's just not true. I think it's amazing that our sororities take grades so seriously, but its tiring hearing you say that a house with a 3.2 has terrible grades. That just isn't true. Yes, we have a rank of who had the best grades, but it doesn't mean the others are terrible.
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by: yup
Thanks for proving her point. In no way did she even imply that anyone without good grades "are beneath you." YOU are the person putting the value judgment on things. No one is saying that a house with a 3.2 has terrible grades. She is simply sick of being made fun of because she is in a house with top grades. No one, except you, used the word terrible. You really need to check your attitude. It works both ways. Stop making fun of people who study and stop saying their houses take only one type of girl. And, most of all, lose the critical attitude: "They don't just take the type A, 4.0, I'm better than everyone, belonged to every club in high school type." What can you possibly gain by stereotyping in this way?
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by: Legit
No one is saying they don't care about grades. They just don't care enough. This is Mizzou, not Harvard or Yale. Just about anyone who tries should be able to get more A's than B's. When you house's GPA is not even a 3.0, that means there are more people getting C's than A's. And I truly think that if the majority of members cared about academics, that wouldn't be true.
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by: Grades
10 out of the 12 houses have at least a 3.2. You have no clue how they handle grades or study hours. How can you say they done care "enough".
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by: Grades
10 out of the 12 houses have at least a 3.2. You have no clue how they handle grades or study hours. How can you say they done care "enough".
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by: And
A 3.4 is so much better? If you are in a house that values grades so much shouldn't your house GPA be higher than that?
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by: I think the point is
That you can be happy in any house if you have an open mind. You may have the grades, activities, looks, etc... for a certain house but still not end up there because of the number of girls going through recruitment. If you obsess over the houses you didn't get in, you can miss out on a great experience in another house. True, all houses are not alike but they are a lot more alike than what you are made to believe on this website. All houses have girls with great grades, pretty girls, involved girls, athletic girls, and even some girls who don't always adhere to the values and priorities of a house. The so called top houses might still be getting their first choice of girls but the middle and bottom houses are getting extremely qualified girls too because of the number of girls going through recruitment. The house stereotypes don't apply to every girl in a house and more of these houses are becoming more of a mixture of a lot of types of girls. Plus college is about broadening your horizons and getting out of the " bubble" you may have been in before now. The world is so much bigger than the neighborhood you grew up in or the high school you attended. I think it's great to be around a variety of people - not everyone who is the same or who I have everything in common with. It's how it will be in the real world after graduation.
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