Posted on 09/22/2024 5:56:11 AM PDT by blueplum
ha ha, good point.
I would have paid NOT to be in one these groups while in college. Every fraternity or sorority member I met was a trust fund child. Maybe just anecdotal.
Another graduate of the Kamala Harris School to Get Ahead (literally).
Then you were in all the fraternities at one time, because that’s what they all were, because they all had the same affiliation.
My dad was a member of a fraternity in college.
His dad was a farmer.
And my dad got an engineering degree.
Not sure the fraternity membership did anything for him, during or after. He wasn’t a party animal. And he got an excellent education many, many decades ago.
And had a very successful career afterwards.
Guess it depends on the Greek.
Probably, or the generation. The level of “education” at college is nothing close to what it was when your father went.
Paying money to have your friends chosen for you...sadder
The title is way misleading.
Room and board is NOT a cost of being in a sorority. Ya gotta live and eat SOMEWHERE. If she lived in the dorms or an apartment, she’d spend that $10,422 twice a year. That’s about 2/3 of the quoted $30,000 in
sorority fees.
That means it’s costing this girl’s family about $10k a year to be in this sorority. But, again, many of these costs are simply the cost of college life. Going to the bars, throwing parties, etc….it added up.
Now, if she’s arguing that being in a sorority gives her a leg up on the competition across the length of her career, she is right. But this is ONLY insofar as she’s a got an inside track with others in Zeta Tau Alpha. It is possible that a hiring manager who’s a ZTA alum sees her resume, she may get moved to the top of the queue.
However. It cuts both ways. There is a fairly negative stereotype (some would say fact-based bias) against sorority and fraternity members. It is probably MORE likely she’ll get zotted by hiring managers who are anti-Greek system. Now, the hiring manager won’t outright SAY they detest sorority sisters…but it’ll prolly happen.
I would say, however, that living in a fraternity (at least during the Reagan Admin) provided awesome life skills that transcended my major. Negotiating personalities, defusing conflict, working as a team, learning how to conduct a conversation while hideously drunk, taking tests and going to class hung over…I got a lot out of my fraternity experience.
She’s delusional if she thinks this punches her ticket. You are what you make of yourself.
Expensive M.R.S. degree.
i imagine the ‘secret’ skull and crossbones society at yale would be the best one for ‘any’ of your career.
For a brief time I was also in the “I Felta Thi” fraternity.
Reading it on my iPhone, at first squint it said glans.
DISGUSTING
Exactly
In all honesty, I really do love 'Legally Blonde.' It's a great movie to watch when you want to lift your spirits.
"It opens doors, I'm telling you!"
Then you were in all the fraternities at the same time, all the ones at UF that I knew about were all affiliated with that organization.
My sister-in-law was in a hard to get in to sorority and got a master’s degree.
Me, I got a lowly associate’s degree and made about twice what she made.
And after she got divorced I rented a house to her for below market rate.
But the Sorority connections never seemed to get her any advantage that i know of.
But mostly I believe that it is her chosen profession that limited he earning power.
She chose to be in social work that requires a master’s degree and pays like an high school drop out.
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