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Free PDF · About 165 terms

Every sorority term, finally translated.

PC, pref, COB, quota, Big, Little, philanthropy round. Sorority life runs on a language nobody hands you, and everyone else seems to already speak it. The A·LIST Sorority Dictionary translates the whole thing, around 165 terms in one keep-it-forever PDF, so you can follow every conversation instead of nodding along.

Cover of the A·LIST Sorority Dictionary, about 165 sorority terms translated in one free PDF
  • Going through recruitment. Walk in already knowing what a pref night is, what quota means, and why everyone keeps saying PNM.
  • The parent trying to follow along. Decode the calls home without making her stop and explain every third word.
  • Anyone decoding the group chat. Look a term up once, get the plain answer, move on with your day.

What you’ll get

Real pages from the PDF: 22 pages, organised by the moment you will first hear the word.

Inside the sorority dictionary: the cover and two of the pages
The contents page of the A·LIST Sorority Dictionary
The contents page. Six sections, about 165 terms, and an A to Z index at the back.
A recruitment terms page from the A·LIST Sorority Dictionary
A recruitment page. Mutual selection, COB, quota, and the rest, in plain English.

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Hope Gray, A·LIST Greek founder

From Hope Gray: two-term Chapter President, former national sorority headquarters staff, chapter advisor, practicing attorney, and founder of a sorority gift company that ran for a decade.

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