YAY FOR RUSH!!! That's really all I have to say. Can't wait to hear all about your daughter and her friends!!!

Woo hoo! A current rush thread! I added you to the list

Thank you so much for sharing your daughther's story with us, AuburnMom. Best of luck to your daughter and her friends :D

Go France!

Can't wait for an undate; good luck to your daughter!:D

I had 16 sororities to visit when I rushed, so I know how hard it is to keep them all straight, and how tough on the feet it is to tromp around to all of them in hot weather (and in cute shoes).

Also glad to hear that she's going with her gut rather than the group gossip.

Best of luck to she and her friends, and thanks for posting her story.

Go Ireland! Good luck to Kate and her friends :)

a mini update...
 

Kate will attend 12 parties in this round! She's so excited. I don't know yet which 12 she is attending and I don't have any information on her room mate/suite mate yet. Apparently she received her list and had a few seconds to send me a text message before she headed out to her first party. She told me she'd call me at lunch and let me know which 12 and I'll update more at that time.

Thank you all for your kind words of support and ufpiphi, you are correct, I am on "pins and needles" this week!

More information later in the day......

Oooooooo!!! Sounds good! We're on "pins & needles" right there with you.

Congrats to your daughter!!!!!!!!!! YaY for a full schedule!!!!!!!!!

Wow, a full schedule! Looks like Kate's recruitment is going well and I wish her and her friends luck for the rest of recruitment.

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This is my favorite time of the year! .... very exciting times! I am leaving shortly for a chapter visit this week-end! YAY!

Best wishes for a successful recruitment to all GC PNMs and their anxious
moms!!

hooray for auburndaughter! hope she has a great day today.

Day One of Philanthropy Parties is over!
 

As mentioned above, Kate was invited back to 12 parties for this round. She will go back to (over the next two days):

France
Norway
Finland
Luxembourg
Ireland
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Monaco
Austria
Italy
England

Kate was excited about attending 12 parties for this round and seems to be enjoying her day. Other then the record heat wave that Auburn is enjoying (heat indices of 110 today); it seems to be a good day. I haven’t talked to Kate since lunch so I only got information on the first four parties. I’ll update her preferences once I talk to her tonight. She won’t finish Philanthropy Parties until tomorrow.

Kate’s roommate will be attending 8 parties this round and Kate’s suitemate will be attending 11 parties this round.

More later…….. :)

Thanks for sharing your daughter's story. I never had the opportunity to go to college and participate in Greek Life, (one of my greatest regrets) it's so much fun to live vicariously through y'all. I have a ton of friends in Junior Auxiliary who were in sororities but this kind of conversation is not what you would generally talk about! haha;) Good Luck to her and I hope she gets a bid from her favorite!

While we wait for an update from Kate; here's a little background on her.....
 

Since I've already revealed where she's rushing, I have been purposely vague (or non existent) about any details about her. I will continue to be cautious as I don't want to compromise her rush at all, but I think a few general details may be helpful to her story….

Kate is from the North. She is one of the few from our area that chose to attend a southern University. Most of her friends went to other “northern” schools that are close to where we live and even though a good amount of them are rushing, very few are going through the type of rush that Auburn has. Luckily, having heard about traditional rushes at Southern schools, we started doing research about Auburn rush and we worked hard to ensure that Kate was prepared and had the recommendations (and the rush wardrobe!) that she needed.

(More about obtaining recommendations later as that is an amusing story in itself!)

A disadvantage for Kate is that she isn’t attending rush with a lot of high school friends, and she doesn’t have generations of family that have attended Auburn or been Greek. She mentioned to me today that the girls she has met are very, very friendly to her but that she doesn’t have her best friend’s older sister in a sorority like her suitemate or she isn’t a double legacy to a sorority like her roommate. A lot of the PNM’s actually know actives; unfortunately, since we are from so far away, Kate does not.

An advantage for her is because she’s not from the south, she came to rush with no preconceived notions about any of the sororities and is truly forming her own opinion as she goes.

I keep encouraging Kate to be friendly, out-going, and to keep an open mind. I am proud of her as she seems to be following that advice.

I think we were both thrilled when she was invited back to 12 parties for this round. We know that it is hard to rush at a competitive Southern school when you aren’t from the area. We realize that the later rounds are more competitive, but I am proud of what she’s accomplished thus far!