[irishpipes]

Since this thread was bumped, I'll add a story from last year. I wrote a rec for a local PNM who was transferring from SMU to Georgia. She is from a socially prominent and very wealthy family. Both parents are Greek. She had excellent grades and a stellar resume. The only ding was that she wasn't attractive. She was slightly overweight and just not a looker. She had all the best clothes and was stylish, but just wasn't a pretty girl. She went through formal recruitment at SMU, where her mother had been an XYZ. SMU is very competitive and recruits in January. Of course this PNM thought she would pledge her mother's top top tier sorority at SMU. She was cut by the top tier groups late in the game and dropped out. Going into sophomore year, she transferred to UGA and got a bid at her mother's sorority. Her father is an alumnus of UGA. Her Facebook status on bid day, "What could be better - pledging my mom's sorority at my Dad's alma mater"