You have me wondering how things would have been for me and others, if we waited until our second year to go through the process again.
Excellent thread!

Ahh! I thought I would get to read the whole story at once!

I'm curious to see how it turns out, good luck!

i know you already answered this, but maybe another reason you didnt notice it has to do with your region? like, i think in another part of the country that detail may stick out a little more. but hmm, i think i would notice from day 1 that "hmm, all the XYZs were ____________," esp. if it was "about 85%" of the chapter.

which leads me to ask (and maybe this will give your location away, so no pressure), is this house historically Asian or historically White that happens to have lots of Asian sisters?

(i know i know, let's cringe over the semantics of that one but still be on the same page)

and yes, im enjoying this one too!

Question answered
 

This house is NOT historically asian. In fact, at my campus, there have been several recruitments since mine and the house is actually wayyyyy more diverse. Since I only went to day 1 of marissa (where we were picked up at the door and given a mini house tour), they were not all standing together for me to notice. I was pretty much concentrating on the girl I was speaking too.

Since I made it to day 2 of recruitment this time, I got to see their mini skit. So all the actives were lined up around the room watching the performing actives. It was easier to see everyone. HOWEVER, I know for a fact that if I went to marissa day 2 my freshman year, I would not have cared that the girls were primarily one race. They were gorgeous girls. and that is what I was looking for my freshman year.

DAY 3
 

A FULL SCHEDULE!!!!!

Serena
Ryan
Seth
Marrissa

WHY WAS SERENA AND RYAN KEEPING ME?!?! I was so stoked! a 50% chance to end up in an amazing home. That stat made me so happy! SERENA!!!! YAY!!!! I could not wait to step through that dark, cozy house and meet more girls! what sophomore gets a great full schedule??? a lot of the freshman did not even have full schedules!

Reactions to houses that I got cut from:

Blair Waldorf- not too suprised. Cool house. Would have been proud to rep their letters. But was not crying over it. Afterall, I was going through as a sophomore. It's understandable.

Jenny- WHAT???? I wasn't really sad or anything. Just a little suprised, I just thought I made a good impression and I know my floormate was routing for me. Rumor has it that this house usually only takes freshman... well thats what I choose to believe :p. ha.

Day 3... continued
 

I walked confidentily to:

Serena van der Woodsen- Ok, so I got lead in and sat with a gorgeous girl. I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED, but we got into a political conversation! I know that is a big no no here on GC, but it happened. It wasn't bad, however we did have opposing views. I finally decided to stop it before it that debate got to be intense. I believe I said something like "dude, this is exactily why I want to be in a sorority. You meet so many girls and learn so much. I mean, it's great that I believe ______, but if I dont listen to other people's side, I'll never grow." WOW, that worked pretty well if I might say so myself. We talked about other things too. That girl (lets call her Jessie--I do not think I came up with a psuedo name for her) I met Day 1 and L-O-V-E-D came and crouched down wear I was sitting and said hi. Her face was so excited to see me, and so was mine! When she left, the girl told me that Jessie told her so much about me. I was so excited! I told her that I had Jessie was so fun! Later, I talked to another active, the conversation went great! EVEN SHE TOLD ME that Jessie was talking about me non stop!!!!!! SO IN LOVE!

I walked out of Serena kind of scared. what if that mini political debate was the end of me???? I mean the active I talked to about politics was older in the house. It would only make sense that she had more influence over her chapter than Jessie. SO NERVOUS!!!!

Ryan Atwood- "why am I even here?"-- I got that feeling again as I stood outside with the stunning PNM's. The actives at Ryan were so amazing, so fun, so refreshing. But everytime I stood waiting outside the house for the recruitment party to begin with the PNM's that were invited back to Ryan, I felt out of place. Well, not so much out of place, but I felt myself pulling out my MAC compact to do touch up. These PNM's were gorgeous. I guess thats good, maybe that will make me a little more concious of my appearance (I am one of those girls that gets ready to go out to parties or events.... I don't really where make up to go to class or study). So maybe this house could help me always be presentable. But then I thought-- I don't need a sorority to make me feel out of place. I needed a sorority that would make me feel a part of them. Hope this makes sense. The doors opened and the party began. I got paired with this pretty cool girl. The active I met day 1 came to say hi to me. after about 20 minutes of great conversation, I could feel the recruitment party comming to a close. So she asked "Do you have any questions about recruitment or pref". Now, keep in mind, I talked to this girl for so long (the entire party!) We really clicked and we didnt talk about one recruitment thing. I really felt like I could be way honest with her. So I said "I love recruitment so far! everyday is so exciting. But.... theres this one house that keeps inviting me back.... Seth Cohen. I keep putting them at the bottom of my list, but they just keep making it onto my list. I am kind of confused by that." I continued to tell her about that one girl who deactivated and told me alot of the ritual and how I felt that ritual is so important and now I just felt like seth cohen wasnt special in my mind. The active just sat and nodded and then said "yah, we werent expecting so many girls to go through recruitment this year. So the computer program we are using is on overload". I left the house feeling happy. I got genuine advice.

Seth Cohen- I did not even know why I was here. I decided to just look disinterested in everything. I realize that they worked hard on their recruitment and should not have to tolerate a PNM to be so unclassy. But I had no classy idea how to tell them that I was not interested.

Marissa Cooper- I did the same thing here that I did at seth cohen. I already knew what my top 2 would be.


now to the ranking (2 number 1's)

1 Serena
1 Ryan

2 Marissa
3 Seth

That Night
 

I laid out my dress for recruitment.

Makeup...... check
Purse...... check
Heels...... check
Dress...... check

Sleeping sucked. In my head I thought:

What if that political conversation really messed me up at a chance at Serena?

I loved Jessie, but does she like me or is she faking it?

What if I have bags under my eyes since I am lying awake thinking about this.

I finally fell asleep and work up before my alarm even sounded. While I got ready I thought:

Should I prepare some questions to talk about? Should I have topics to talk about?

What should I talk about?

I literally have exhaused every good topic with Serena. The girls really knew a lot about me. I decided not to think of any topics or questions. If it was meant to be, then the conversation would flow.

I headed out the door and suddenly thought "DUDE WHAT IF SERENA'S NOT EVEN ON MY PREF LIST?!?!?!"

I was scarred to death.

I walked to our meeting place with so many twists in my stomach.

The Group Leaders were being so slow. They knew that a lot of girls were going to drop because their tops might not be on the list. They told us that if they saw us open the pieces of paper they were going to give us with our schedules, that they would take it away. They made a speech that basically told us NOT to talk to each other, this was supposed to be our own personal decision, they said to go to the houses no matter what and give them an equal chance FINALLY she passed out the pieces of paper.

I walked away from the group as instructed. My hand was holding my future. I KNEW if Ryan and Serena were on there, I would HAPPILY be in either organization. I did not walk to my normal 'lucky spot'. I just took deep breaths and then stared at the folded piece of paper.

I opened it and.....






























































































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You are not funny! I keep checking for updates and then you lead me/us on like that. I can't stand it! ;)

*splorf!*
 

aprocess, you have a phenomenal sense of humor!

So...who was in the envelope? :)

I need to know! Im on the edge of my seat!

I have a bad feeling about Ryan. :(

Okay, this is really not fair!!! :)

gahhhhh... the anticipation is killing me!!! ...and I need more reasons to keep procrastinating :rolleyes:

Omg...I'm gonna die...

ok, its official, you are evil.................LOL

hahaha... that it totally me as well. I really should be reading about the Chinese-Japanese portion of WWII.... but instead, I read recruitment stories. :)

Please update soon!

AH you trickster!

My heart was pounding as I scrolled down!!! You are such a tease!

I agree.. I just feel like it's.. idk, taboo or something to mention other houses, especially in a fashion like this. But regardless, I cannot believe you left us on a cliffhanger like this.. I NEED to know!!

lol lol lol!!! Give us the update.

Ugh! I am trying to drink my coffee and catch up on my GC! I need to know....

NOOOOOOO!

That was evil! You have me hooked and I need to know now. I hope you get back to update soon (as in five minutes ago)!

So not fair!!!! Get back here and update! My heart was pounding when I scrolled down!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WHERE IS SHE?

So........ this really needs to be updated soon, or else I think we're all gonna go crazy

:p

Come............................. BACK!!!

umm... come on. give us the juice baby.

I am realllly going batty. I NEED this to be updated. I too have a feeling about Ryan because of the extensive discussion about Seth...

still nothing?

Pref
 

So I was going to write this tonight, but after reading your comments, I couldnt keep you in suspense that long!

I breathed in deep, I needed serena to be on there. I did not know how I had opened up my heart so much in just 4 days. Those girls were seriousily like my sisters. I thought in my head "ok, just open and go!!!"

I op




[phone call one sec]






I opened up my schedule and:

Serena
Marissa

Reactions
Ryan: you all saw it coming. I actually was cluelss at the time it happened. I wasnt stressed out about it at all though. I mean, I came to the realization that I was trying to be someone that I wasn't and just felt like I always had to look prestine. I mean, whats a sister if you cant watch gossip girl/the oc in your pajama's with them? [FAST FORWARD: you guys were right. I made a few friends at ryan post-recruitment. they told me that a few girls really fought for me, but ultimately the girl who was talking to me thought it was tacky to talk about another sorority. how was I to know? I thought I was supposed to talk to them as friends. another LEARNING EXPERIENCE/TIP: you are supposed to be their friend. Afterall, they want to be friends with their sisters, but the reality of the situation is that you have only known them for 20-30 min. They have to work hard to make you like them, that you need to output the same energy. For example, if she talked about seth negatively, I would have thought that she-- and the rest of her sorority-- was a (insert b word).]

Seth: Thank the lord oh might! free at last!

Serena: My heart jumped out of place when I saw them on the list

Marissa: It really made me fell so wierd that they were on my list. I was told that I if you only had one recruitment party that day, and you have completed all the events, then youwere garanteed a bid to the sorority on your schedule. I was hoping that Serena would be the only one (or Serena and Ryan), but now I have to suffer through another sleepless night???? lame. And how am I supposed to make myself look uninterested when I already tried?

I walked to my first party, Serena...

We just waited forever for that update, and now you're making us wait some more?! ahhhh!

:p

Yeah, but at least she finally told us which pref parties she was going to. Pretty sure we would've had a few heart attacks around here if she didn't at least tell that part!

True true. I just get so impatient with these things!

I need to stop procrastinating and actually do some work :rolleyes:

you better hurry back this time. lol

I burst out laughing when you did the scroll down to nothing...my roommate gave me the weirdest look. Hilarious story, I LOVE it, you are so funny and a great storyteller. I love the honesty. I can see this going either way: you get Serena, your dream house, and it shows your maturity this time around played out OR you get Marissa, are crushed, but then have the time of your life. LOVE LOVE LOVE this thread!!!

c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon...
Keep going!!!
You've got me hooked, can ya tell???

I'm so dying to hear more! This is a great story!

pleeeease come back!!!

the only acceptable excuse is that you were studying for something major.....please finish your story!!

I bet she's sitting back laughing at all of us!