<p>So I'm an ED admit to the class of 2012 and realized this board is a great way to get real feedback from people about true life at the school. So can someone break down the sororities at the school for me? And give me an honest appraisal of each? I'd like a list giving the type of girls who join each.</p>
<p>My sister is a junior at Penn, she's in Delta Delta Delta which is the hottest on campus there. Her friends are also in Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta at Penn, also elite at Penn. I'd like the equivalent of those types of sororities at Dartmouth. Let me know which are which? What's tri-delt like at Dartmouth (as I'm aware it varies from school to school). Which fraternity has the hottest guys? Thanks guys and can't wait to see you all soon! </p>
<p>Um...since you rush in sophomore fall there's no reason to be asking this sort of question. You can find out and decide for yourself after matriculating.</p>
<p>I'm not sure that we have one "elite" sorority (this sort of seems counterintuitive to me considering our social scene) though I wouldn't rule the possibility out. Asking for a description of the sororities and frats upfront is rather pointless, considering you get a year to make up your mind about the Greek scene.</p>
<p>As a sorority girl, I'm a little bit offended to hear this question. Most girls who rush are looking for a strong sisterhood and a place where they feel happy and comfortable. I have never heard someone openly admit that they are only interested in the prestige and status their sorority name will give them.</p>
<p>About half of Dartmouth's sororities are local and half are national. In terms of the outside world, the national sororities names are definitely more well-known. These include: Tri-Delt, KKG, AZD, and Alpha Phi. The locals include EKT, KDE, and Sigma Delt. Each sorority is unique and comprised of girls who are proud of their houses and their fellow sisters.</p>
<p>To answer your question honestly, I'd have to reference the sorority stereotypes. Because you seem most interested in the sorority's reputation, it wouldn't really matter what the house is actually like. Therefore, you sound like a budding Kappa Kappa Gamma. This house is known for its wealth, preponderance of blondeness, and obsession with status. It's also known for having the weakest sisterhood and most in-fighting. While I do know some wonderful KKG's who defy this stereotype, here it is none-the-less.</p>
<p>Omg I was just thinking that! My friend from New Orleans thought if she didn't become a Tri-delt or KKG that her family and friends would disown her...</p>
<p>I think most sorority women @ Dartmouth would be offended by OP's post. When I read the OP's post, my first thoughts were this young woman is ripe for a suicide .</p>
<p>My advice is to take a deep breath, chill, fall back, check yourself or any other terminology you may want to use because you will not be able to rush until you are a sophomore, giving you a year to reign it in just a little.</p>
<p>It may be a little late to tell you this, but Dartmouth may not be the place for you. Inclusive and open-minded are words that generally describe the students and social scene at Dartmouth. For example, did you know that most fraternity parties are open to everyone on campus. Sounds to me like you want to be somewhere where you can be in the "in" sorority and exclude everyone else from your parties. I don't know that you will be happy at Dartmouth. Although if you got in I am sure that there must be a handful of others like you that you will find.</p>
<p>Wow, you seem to all be in denial of the fact that when you promote organized friendship between women that those (female) members of such organized friendship are going to find ways to define who they are</p>
<p>GoBigGreen - The way you rip on the KKG seems a bit counterintuitive to whether you are "offended." Nonetheless, I hope to find strong friendship with other girls when I'm in college (hopefully before i even join a sorority my sophomore year, if i do).</p>
<p>Sybbill? - Ripe for suicide....yeahhh okay, right. Cause whenver a girl asks a question in an anonymous internet forum to get to the bottom what may or may not eats at the heart of girls at her future college means she must be aching inside.</p>
<p>I think when Sybbie said "suicide" she was using sorority slang for designating preference during rush for only one sorority, thereby leaving yourself open to the possibility of not getting into any of them.</p>
<p>I think until you've gotten there, met the women who could be your potential sisters don't just count out people who were because they may or may not be tri-delts, kkg's or whatever.
Keep an open mind. </p>
<p>I personally know a 7 who came to Hanover (friend of my D's) with the same mindset your are putting out and suicided in both her sophomore and junior years because there can an is such a thing as unrequited love.</p>
<p>"I personally know a 7 who came to Hanover (friend of my D's) with the same mindset your are putting out and suicided in both her sophomore and junior years because there can an is such a thing as unrequited love."</p>
<p>"i personally know a 7" --- what?</p>
<p>"unrequited love" -- huh?</p>
<p>"mindset your are putting out" --- what do you mean by this? thanks love.</p>
<p>That's interesting, considering the general consensus is that dartgirl12's apparent perceptions of Dartmouth have little, if anything, to do with reality. On the off-chance she isn't a troll...</p>
<p>A 7 (or '07) is a member of the class of 2007. It's Dartmouth jargon, and applies to ll classes, including the '12s. If you're smart enough to get into Dartmouth, you shouldn't need much further explanation of how to parse that sentence.</p>
<p>The notion that because Greeks try to differentiate themselves, one will ultimately be considered more "elite" is quite off the mark, at least in a Dartmouth context. Most, if not all, competition here is quite friendly; nobody is interested in sabotaging someone else. Greek societies differentiate themselves by their characters, not by being more exclusive or "elite" than the rest.</p>
<p>I'm voting troll. She only posted her stats to the Dartmouth admitted board the same day she started this thread, and here's part of her stats:</p>
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Essays: I guess they were good? Wrote about experiences waitressing after my dad forced me to get a job to learn about life. Tried to make myself seem like I became down to earth and humbled.
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<p>I'm going to see if she also posted on other threads as someone else.</p>
<p>I assumed that because internet message boards are anonymous that actual Dartmouth affiliates would want to do this, but all I got were attacks from you guys (and their moms apparently?) and people trying to intimidate me with comments like "If you're smart enough to get into Dartmouth you can put together this sentence." </p>
<p>It's easy to call a girl vicious names anonymously on the internet and insult her intelligence, isn't it? Hopefully you don't do this in real life, and that you're all justified with taking out these horrible tendencies on the computer. </p>
<p>I guess this isn't a board for people to talk about Dartmouth, as made clear by this guy's attempt to track me down at some Princeton board. I guess I'll just wait until I visit again later this month. However, if there's anyone out there who has any light to shed on this thread, please post.</p>
<p>I don't understand all the hostility on this thread. Regardless, in order to identify which sororities are the most "elite" you have to resort to stereotypes, which may or may not be true, and furthermore may not be valid in a couple years. All that aside, given their current stereotypes, Kappa (KKG) and KDE are probably considered to be the most elite. Tri-delt, which you asked about, also generally has a very good reputation.</p>
<p>I think part of it might be Dartmouth's general hostility to overt displays of 'eliteness.' I remember a saying from my student days: "Every time you mention your SAT score [or GPA, number of citations, MCAT/GRE/LSAT score], God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens." The idea is that Dartmouth is a community, one that does not take kindly to certain people setting themselves above others, especially in an arbitrary fashion.</p>