<p>Your adult daughter needs to be responsible enough to regulate her own alcohol consumption.</p>
<p>SeanCris:</p>
<p>I appreciate the parenting advice, but that was not the information I was seeking. I take it from your cryptic answer that the greeks do not regulate alcohol service? Please keep in mind that my daughter (who is seventeen) is expecting her parents to pay for all sorority activities as well as other college expenses. It would be a poor consumer that did not investigate exactly what she was paying for. </p>
<p>Therefore, I repeat the question. Do the sororities regulate alcohol consumption during rush at all? I beleive the title of the thread invites such questions.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for a simple yes or no answer.</p>
<p>LTG</p>
<p>well from what i have researched (because im an incoming freshmen) is that there is a spring recruitment and yes you can do it as a sophmore. </p>
<p>now the rush is strictly informational and i personally couldnt see an alcohol party when they are trying to determine who they want… thats personal though and i dont know.</p>
<p>Spring rush does not happen every year. And when it does, it is only sororities who have lost members, usually by having members graduate early in Dec, or other attrition. Spring of 2009 was only 2-3 houses. Spring 2010 was 10-12 houses. It is a more informal process in the spring.</p>
<p>Formal Fall rush IS available to sophomores and even Juniors. </p>
<p>Sororities do not use alcohol as part of rush EVER. Not even under the table. You use alcohol as part of rush and you are kicked off campus. After rush, do sororities have socials and date functions where alcohol is served to those of age, yes. I believe no sorority house allows alcohol on the premises. So socials and date functions and formals are at clubs, country clubs etc. Do sorority girls drink at frat houses, sure. Do they party at their sisters apartments, and preparty before socials when they are not of age, yes. Do they sneak in beer/alcohol to their rooms in their houses, yeah. But getting caught does have consequences. And alcohol as part of any hazing can get you on probation pretty fast. There is a new culture of pledges and new members often “telling” on their sisters that did not used to happen. So any alcohol in a sorority house is pretty much under the table. Off premises, all bets are off.</p>
<p>LTG: Respectfully, it wasn’t parenting advice, but a reality check. Greek or not, alcohol will be available, and whether or not your daughter partakes is up to her. You won’t be able to prevent her from consuming alcohol whether or not you’re paying for her college experience, or if you do your research and she joins the most puritan sorority in the nation.</p>
<p>So yes, alcohol will be available to her, sorority or not. I am not a member of a sorority, but I am sure that the sorority will say that they regulate alcohol consumption. Whether or not they do is largely irrelevant because the truth is that students will drink as much (or as little) as they want to.</p>
<p>@Matt125</p>
<p>You get it in about 3-5 days, but you can do express shipping if you want. Standard 3-5 day is free though, I’ve never had an issue as I order all my books before classes, and then return the ones I don’t need.</p>
<p>As for sorority drinking, I’ve never heard of it during rush, but I’ve seen it in the houses before. As sunny said, most socials and formals are off campus (and there is alcohol there), but sometimes there are events at the house and there is some drinking, most sororities are serious about it though, because if they get caught there is a large chance they will be kicked off campus. </p>
<p>Though seancris does bring up a good point, there is alcohol EVERYWHERE in tallahassee, and being a girl makes it REALLY easy to attain it, its about being responsible. However you are also right that you should be a smart consumer, most sororities are fine, its the frat parties you want to watch out for!</p>
<p>Well here’s a question for all current or former students…</p>
<p>What was your HS GPA (unweighted) and what was/is your FSU GPA? </p>
<p>I’m trying to see how hard it will be to keep up the required 3.2 GPA (for honors and scholarship reasons).</p>
<p>Oh and for my high school it turns out that the honors classes are easier than the academic just faster pace… is this the same for FSU?</p>
<p>@dnerd</p>
<p>My high school GPA was 3.2 unweighted
my FSU gpa is 3.7 right now.</p>
<p>It’s not hard, just study and attend class and you’ll keep it.</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the economics program at FSU?</p>
<p>is there any way to test out of the computer fluency requirement</p>
<p>I don’t think you can test out of it, but you can take it over summer at a community college.</p>
<p>-can you join a sorority and live in a dorm/apartment?
-what do the dorms come with (desk, chair? how many?)</p>
<p>sam21278, when i was researching the sororities and how much the dues are you can live in dorm room if you want but looking at the differences in prices of living in a sorority and living in a dorm… it is kinda cheeper to live in the sorority house and pay dues than to live out of it and pay dues. Although, the sorority house only houses about 40 girls out of the 150 members…</p>
<p>When you rush a sorority, you will be a provisional member for awhile. Once you initiate, it may be near the end of fall term. There are rarely rooms that open up for spring term, so the first you are likely to be able to live in a sorority house is the following fall. It is competitive to live in the house. Most houses have a point system with points for what class you are in, how long you have been a member, and points for offices held and participation in activities such as linedance, cheers for charity, dance marathon. Get involved and you can get a chance to live in the house. The rent in the house is WAY less, in many cases, than a dorm or an apartment. And unlike an apartment, you sign a lease only for the time you are there, not for the whole year. </p>
<p>You will pay for meals as part of your dues, and be expected to eat at the house even as a freshman. That is how you get to know your sisters. If you have a mandatory meal plan dorm, or any FSU meal plan, you will get info during rush about how you can downgrade your FSU meal plan. Since most houses cover lunch and dinner, you can use the limited FSU plan for breakfasts and weekends and when you miss getting to your house. If you are not in a mandatory meal plan dorm, WAIT to sign up for a meal plan until you go through rush to see you you pledge. That way you may not even have to sign up for one.</p>
<p>dorms come with a dresser, a desk a bed and a chair.</p>
<p>and as said above, you will not live in the house as a freshman so either get a dorm or an apartment.</p>