I preffed AXO and Sigma Kappa, I wanted SK all the way thorugh. Come pref night I met a snobby girl that was a friendemy of a friend outside SK and thought I don't want to be with her for the next 4 years. I ranked AXO, SK. Didn't get my first choice. I was sad at first, but got over that quick and loved my maroon and lavender ribbons! I love my 4 years and now advise for a chapter. And that girl, well she decided that greek life wasn't for her a few weeks in.

ETA: That was a bad reason obviously not to choose a sorority I wanted all the way. There was more to the story, but it all worked out in the end. I loved AXO pref so that played a part. :-) I was 17 at that time, maybe a little shallow.

I got my first choice. It was my first choice going in and my first choice the whole way through. I had heavy cuts, but it didn't matter because the girls I wanted wanted me!

I got my first choice, but I would have loved my second-which was the smallest chapter on campus. We preffed 3 houses on my campus. I looked at everything when I was rushing-both locally and nationally. My choice to rank came down to the mascot because both chapters were tied. I am in the right place though-no doubt about it 17 years later.

Couldn't have said it any better myself!

Ha! Yes...but it was my only choice by the end. It worked out for me very well, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

COB, but it was definitely a choice by me. I was approached by one org on campus, but I had an off feeling about them. Of course I knew nothing at the time about how informal recruitment was supposed to go or I might have done things differently. I researched all the sororities on campus, decided which one was right for me on a national level, and arranged to meet some of the members to see if the chapter would be a good fit. I had lunch with TPA85 and the woman who would later be my big. They were fabulous! I had a couple great meetings with the chapter as a whole before they voted me in--after they had already done the initial ceremony, but they held another one just for me. Which, by the way, was terrifying. :rolleyes: Thank God I didn't have to do any other rituals alone. I thought I was going to faint in front of the president.

it was DDD all the way for me. :D

Of course, this is a completely unscientific survey - I would assume that most members of GreekChat would have had a successful recruitment, be it formal or COB. Still, I find it interesting - 70% got their first choice, roughly 25% thought their results worked out GREAT, and aprox. 5% thought it worked out okay.

I voted yes.

I got my first choice, which had been my first choice for like 3 months. I never really considered anything else. Of course, I had NO IDEA what I was doing during rush, and it ended up being my ONLY choice, but I didn't really care. Someday (after all the fake retro stories have died down a bit) I may tell the story, as it is, like so many, a great story about how not to do rush. I was an idiot when I was a freshman.

They were my first choice from Day 1. I could have enjoyed being in my #2, but on Pref Card Night, I suicided. I just didn't want to risk it. Looking back, that was probably stupid of me because I could have ended up in NO sorority, but at the time I did not care.

My story's kind of embarrassing now, because my school had a fraternity-esque rush at the time, so some girls from my dorm floor and I went to a couple of parties for free food--the parties were advertised as "make your own salad" and "make your own sundae." I hadn't really thought about sororities beforehand, being completely clueless, but I had such a great time with the sundae girls that I kept coming back.

Nothing against the salad ladies, though, or the third sorority I never even visited.

After Round 1 and 2, Alpha Gam was my number 2 choice out of 18 and 10 chapters. I was cut from my number 1 after the second round. After 3 and 4, they were my first choice, but I would have been happy with my second choice at Pref. I definitely never would have fit in at my third choice.

Another COB here! I was in love with one sorority, and am very happy with my bid :)
I enjoy reading recruitment stories, though. Formal recruitment sounds very stressful!

Alpha Phi was the only house I wanted to join from the first day of rush and I'm glad they liked me as much as I liked them!