"A lot of girls look at final clubs and wish they had something," she says. "A lot of people that played sports in high school are used to having a group of girls. Being in a sorority gives you that feeling."
Christodoulo says she had always liked the idea of joining a sorority, although she didn't even know they existed until November.
"I was very close to going to Duke, where the social scene is mainly fraternities and sororities, and I thought if I went to Duke, it would be definitely something I'd be interested in," she says.
For many sisters and brothers, however, joining a sorority or fraternity was something they would never have imagined before they did it.
Gilmara H. Ayala '03, a new pledge in DG, says she never thought of herself as a "sorority girl," but after several of her friends joined last spring, she realized how much being in such an organization has to offer.
"It's a network of people you can go to for advice," Ayala says. "This
place is so big that you can get lost, even if you do have good friends.
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