good luck with recruitment
 

i had a pledge sister in your exact situation. she had three older sisters, each in a different sorority, all at the same school. marsha was her own person, and although she was especially close to one of her sisters, she was determined to make her own decision. she ended up choosing a sorority different from her sisters, i think partly to save their feelings, but also because as she said,"i like zeta best!" i can't imagine having 4 daughters in sororities in school at the same time. that family should have a plaque put up in their honor somewhere at fsu!

i joined zta because i had a great experience every time i attended parties there during formal recruitment. one girl in particular seemed to take an interest in me, and if she was not my hostess for that event, made a point of coming over to say hello and ask how my day was going.

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Yay!! Kylee is one of my pledge sisters and an absolute asset to Kappa. I'm so happy to hear she had such a great influence on you all. :)
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Yes... we all love Kylie dearly and miss her like crazy! We are getting a new CC this fall, and we are all excited about that, though. :)

Re: good luck with recruitment
 

You want to know what makes three girls in the family all in different sororities even crazier? They all go to different schools! Even I am going to a school that differs from the rest of them!

I am really excited about school in the fall. I can not wait to experience recruitment for myself. (My sisters have trained me not to call it Rush!) :)

Cassie and Matt, Great for both of you!

Again, mine is a little different.

I founded the local at PSU, Ks.

I was turned down by many of the OLD LINE Fraternitys.

One Erik Conard who you have seen on site was the TKE Advisor.

Knowing that I wanted to do something different Very Strongly suggest LXA. "No I said, they are to new, only 1909"!

I heeded his advice and have never looked back for the simple reason of The Great Fraternity and The Many Brothers that have come after me at My Chapter and the many Brothers that I have ment All over the Country!

What you as new aspirants must look for is who are the people that you will be joing for life, is the Organization someone that you feel comfortable with, do you aspire to the same ideals.

There is a lot more than knowing someone in a certain Orgaization, as down the road, actually is what really counts.

While it does help knowing someone, it does not hurt to look around. Never know what may turn up!:)

The very best of luck to both of you!:cool:

We have a saying as I am sure all of us do, "Seek And Ye Will Find".

Two people influenced me, actually...and one wasn't even an ASA (yet), she was a chapter advisor. And the other was a certain "Sunny" person I know.....if she happens to read this she'll know who she is...

I was influenced by two people when I decided to join Theta. One of them made me feel at home the first day that I walked in the door and we just seemed to have a great connection. She became my twinstar and kept me involved in Theta the entire time that I lived out of house - calling me, picking me up, etc.
The other person just seemed so down to earth and fun when I talked to her, that meeting her helped me picture myself as a member of the chapter. Oddly enough, she also played a huge role in my Theta life - she became my pledge mom.
I still keep in regular contact with both of them.

I was really influenced by a certain woman in the chapter who reminded me of myself. She was outgoing, crazy, and fabulous!

She made me feel at home (as did the other girls) and her involvement really got me interested in joining.

Jess (Starfrog)- I am so thrilled that I was one of the people who helped influence you to join ASA. That's so fabulous! Its a wonderful compliment and one of the nicest things I have ever been told. Thank you!!

I really liked a few girls in my chatper... and there was one in particular who I had a class with at the time I rushed who always told me she hoped I was coming out to the event that night, but what made me choose Phi Sig was the general feeling of comfiness with all of them that I had felt all week... I knew I could be myself... I tend to be a bit high maintance... which is my decision... but I also don't want to have to be that way all the time, and I felt that I could feel comfortable/accepted whether I was the "cute put together me" or the wearing sweats and my glasses been studying/sick/lazy/bum for the day me.

I actually joined Theta Nu Xi because of someone I met here from GC. At the time we met, neither one of us was Greek, but we struck up a friendship. So when I saw that she had crossed on our website, I was happy for her. I still wasn't Greek. I was still researching different organizations. So one day, I really decided to check out the website and I fell in love. It's been a ONEderful ride ever since.

What really won me over is that this girl. She is one of the nice people I know. I was going thur a bad patch and she lent me her shoulder to cry one. She didn't even know me and she was just there for me. That impressed me so much. I'm proud to call her my soror, but I'm even prouder to call her my friend

Randomly, I was told the summer before I went to college (by an ex that was a TKE at Akron) that I would fit in as an AGD or a DG. Of course I didn't base my choices on that, but it made me interested in both and especially in joining all together. DG was the house that I was the most comfortable and that I felt I could grow more as a person. I loved the women and everything they had to offer. The organization as a whole is strong and I wanted to be apart of that.

My favorite person upon joining I would have to say was a woman named Kristi. She preffed me and is still one of my very good friends. She was always very sweet and was a great support during my new member period and throughout my membership. I will always appreciate her!

I found out last semester that there was a girl in one of my fall classes that decided to go thru rush because of me. She ended up being on some committee with my roommate and told my roommate that she decided she wanted to go greek because of me. Unfortunately she didn't go ASA but still I thought that was an awesome compliment.

i started pledging a group fall 98 my freshman year, but stopped cause the girls werent what i thought they were. then i wanted to pledge the next quarter but i kept putting it off til spring of my sophmore year, i went with the girls i thought i should have pledged in the first place cause the alumni that came up from georgia convinced me that since i really wanted to do it i should and stop being stubborn and go for it.

my sis mom, kelly, was a large part of the reason i joined. she was just super friendly and down to earth. all during preference when everyone's supposed to be quiet and reserved, we're laughing about SNL and silly stuff. when i saw how the sisters reacted to each other during the parties, and how much of a tight-knit group they all were (and how kelly couldn't introduce me to someone else without some kind of story that would make them both cry from laughing so hard), i knew it was the place for me....but kelly was definitely the instigator (sp??) for my profound love for Alpha Gam. :)

The first person I really clicked with at Mercer was my Orientation Assistant Stacy. We had Orientation stuff for like 4 days and we hung out all the time and really got to know each other. She had to disaffiliate until classes started but I did know that she was Greek and was encouraging everyone to sign up for recruitment but then I found out she was a Chi O. I still saw her in my Freshman Seminar class that she precepted and became great friends with her. She was the first person I talked to in the Chi O house during rush and she also preffed me. She sincerely loved Chi O so much and the other girls that I met were just as awesome as she was! I was hooked!

There were so many awesome women in my chapter when I went through Recruitment. I had been hanging around the Greek System for a semester before Recruitment so I already knew that the Panhel President was an AGD. I also knew that one of the women running for Student Government President was an AGD. The woman who rushed me hardest was Sherri and she was fantastic! Very down to earth and friendly. They were very focused on scholarship and there were several women in a contest to knock one of the sisters out of her top GPA spot. Their sisterhood was all so apparent! Sherri though, was the one that I clicked with the most and she ended up being my Sister-Mother, even though she was also the VP Fraternity Education (who taught us our history and worked with us most). I must have been her rush crush too because the VPFE doesn't usually take a Sister-Daughter!

Dee