good luck. i can't wait for fall recruitmnt at my school. i love reading recruitment stories and can't wait to read more. write soon

p.s. im going for love spell thats my fave:p

ALICE ooooh ALICE ... where o where have you gone?

Sorry about the suspense, just trying to keep up with everything and stay on top.
 

For round two out of a total of 9 possible invites back I only recieved 3 :(.

Passionate Kisses
Sweet Temptation
My Desire

At first I was really bummed, but I decided to look on the bright side and be happy with the invites I got. Two of the houses were in my top five so I figured that I should be thankful. Though I couldn't help but wonder why I got cut from Vanilla Lace. I was almost positive I would go back there considering most other girls didn't want to. I heard rumor though that some sororities don't take juniors no matter what, so I'm curious if that was the case. Rush at my school is verrryyyy competitive and some girls in my rush group that were younger than me got less invites and some didn't get any favorites at all. So I decided to hold my head up high and continue on.

Passionate Kisses- For this round we did crafts and got to watch videos that all the houses made to show pnm's more about themselves. The craft we made at this house were dreamcatchers. Although a little difficult to make the finished products came out beautiful. The girls I talked to this round were really sweet and I felt very comfortable. However, I was not a fan of their video. I felt that the video kind of made them look ditzy and portrayed the sorority in an unflattering manner. I still really liked them, I just wished that they had a more impressive video to display.

Sweet Temptation-The first thing that struck me at this house were the decorations, they were fantastic. You could tell that these girls put a lot of effort into presentation and included the sororities symbols which made it all the more meaningful. For their craft we made valentines with lots of glitter, lace and ribbon. I have to admit that mine came out beautiful and I was so proud of it haha. The girls I talked to this round were absolute sweethearts. Their video was better than passionate kisses' was but it still lacked excitement. I have to admit though, this house is definately growing on me.

My Desire-Being that this house was one of my favorites last round I was very excited to be going back. Their craft was origami, which was nearly impossible. I don't think anyones came out the way it was supposed to be. I actually ended up becoming very disappointed with this house. The girls I talked with today were nothing like the previous girls I talked to. They weren't as warm and inviting and the girl became slightly frustrated with me because I could not do the stupid origami to save my life. Their video was the best of the three houses but I wasn't pleased with them at all. I left with a slightly bitter taste in my mouth.


At the end of the day we were supposed to rank our top six and cut three. Since I only had three I ranked them all in this order.


Sweet Temptation
Passionate Kisses
My Desire


Hopefully I wouldn't get cut from anymore :(.

you seem like an amazing woman! I wouldn't be too worried about it, I know some women that were only invited back to 1 or 2 houses when they could have been back to (i believe) 8, they ended up getting into chapters and are come of the biggest assets in their houses!
good luck with the next round!!

Hmm. As a former recruitment chair, recruitment adviser, and former contributor to my GLO's recruitment manual, I'd have to say that origami would not be MY first choice of an arts and crafts project. The point is to get people to interact with the buffer of an activity, NOT to make people feel uncomfortable or inept. I wouldn't sweat it. I'm sure you weren't the only one feeling frustrated.

PS.Martha Stewart's staff once admitted that the dumbest arts and crafts project they ever conceived of in the magazine was an origami project., which looked fab, but no could do, not even the staff who tried to go back and make it. Nothing against origami, mind you. My dad is king of that--he can just look at a picture and do magic with his hands to make origami animals. But it takes a LOT of time and patience. Not something conducive to a recruitment event.

I'm trying to figure out what philanthropy/charity it is that has a burning need for origami.

hijack

The whole idea of doing something to contribute to the sorority's philanthropy is a nice one and was conceived with the best intentions, but honestly, I think it would be better and make more of a real impact if all the sorority members and PNMs got together and built a house for Habitat for Humanity or something.

/hijack

Philanthropy round can definitely be tough. My bet is they were trying to be trendy to compete with the chapter doing dreamcatchers. There is nothing that deters a good conversation and can put a bad taste in a pnm's mouth than a hard philanthropy project. It is the bane of many a chapter. It's hard to find something compelling and interesting that's easy to do. Many chapters on my alma mater often struggle on this night for one reason or another trying to keep things interesting by being too out there.

my daughter went through informal recruitment (only one house) a few weeks ago and she said the two activities they particpated in were cookie decorating and board games. The had the girls interested in joining rotate through different small group so that everyone got a chance to chat. She said they were both great ice-breakers especially since the games were noisy ones like Taboo and Balderdash

At our school, my chapter is the only one that doesn't do a craft on philanthropy day. We do a red dress fashion show instead, (because our philanthropy event is the red dress gala, which benefits women's cardiac care) the models are actives who are active in the community, and we talk about their involvement instead of the dresses. It was really successful, especially because a lot of the time the crafts aren't that helpful to the organizations we donate them to. Who really needs 200 decorated bookmarks anyway?

Sooo...

I really like that idea. And if all the other chapters on your campus do a craft, this will sure make you stand out in the PNMs' minds! And you're right, a lot of time the crafts are kinda meaningless and don't do much to actually benefit the org that's your philanthropy - BUT gaining more members that will be active in volunteering DOES help them. :)

I thought you were tricked into going to a COB event...? That's informal in my book. Even if all you did was go to dinner with a few sisters and then you got a bid, that is the definition of informal IMO.

Yes, your school does do partially structured informal recruitment the beginning of the spring semester (which they just started last year), but COB events are still considered "informal" recruitment. So, technically, you were given an bid during informal recruitment whether you knew it or not.

I know you mean well, you really do, but you're posting things that you don't really know much about and it doesn't necessarily do you any favors.

Co-sign.