I'm definitely guilty of not giving some a try for superficial reasons...

We don't have formal recruitment on my campus, but there were several sororities I didn't even consider for pretty silly reasons(aside from the fact that most of them are locals and haze their new members like crazy). One of the sororities' letters spell POT and I just couldn't imagine walking around with POT on a shirt or jacket. Another has a sigma in its name, but for some reason everyone refers to the sigma as an "E" for their nickname. It just kinda bothered me, like how Delta Xi Omega's nickname is DZO instead of DXiO. Oh, and another's colors are lime greenish-yellow(not sure of the exact color) and brown. Great reasons, I know. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I know I ended up where I belong and I love all my sisters. :D

I was Kappa all the way, but how I choose my other GLO was silly. I really wanted to suicide Kappa but was advised not to. I put KKG for my 1st 2 choices and put another GLO as my 3rd choice. I really liked the one I didn't list a little better than the one I did list, but a cousin was an alum of the GLO I listed, so I figured family counted for something. However, her brother's wife was an alum of the one I didn't list, so I guess it wouldn't have mattered. It was a moot point anyway 'cause I got my wish!

Didn't cut...
 

but I wanted to put a little turtle on my nametag because it's been my favorite type of creature forever and then when I went to the DZ party I almost fell over when I saw all the turtles and kept thinking, "my god this is my kind of place!" Glad I didn't put the turtle on my tag though, that would have been soooo bad!

Looking back, I remember the reason why I cut one chapter on the first day was because I was afraid these two girls I had met through a guy I was seeing (who happened to be sisters) hated me (they barely knew who I was) and would cut me first. So I hd to "beat them to it" or something. I probably wouldn't have cut them if I had met a few more people, including my current best friend who is an alum of their chapter. First impressions make a difference... but I love my chapter more than anything.

I actually had a hard time during pref because, and this is so shallow, the room decorations during pref night. The first chapter, Alpha Chi, had slightly fewer members than Gamma Phi, and though the room sizes were identical (this was on campus in general meeting rooms), they had more space in the room, allowing for more decoration and detail, like lattices, lots of lights, little tables here and there, etc. The room was amazing and had this beautiful arbor as we walked in. I was taken away. Then I went to Gamma Phi: who were stuck with the long, straight tables (as opposed to the small and circular ones) and had a larger number of members in the room. It was horribly cramped, I was nearly sitting on the girls next to me, and there was no space whatsoever for the ritual at the end of the night. But I finally realized that it wasn't about the decorations, it was about the people! I could only seriously name two of the girls I'd met in Alpha Chi (and one was so scary to me for so long, but now we're friends) and I knew, like, KNEW, so many Gamma Phis... the choice became clear.

well, i knows that tons of girls like one sorority on our campus because they're 'more Greek sorority looking' than the rest of us. and it's so funny. . .every year, they get like 15 pledges but by the time initiation rolls around, they have maybe 3 left. . .and then, half of the chapter disappears

I finally read this thread in its entirety and it seriously made me giggle!!!

I'm kinda the oppostie of this whole thread -- I went into Phi Mu kicking and screaming because I HATE pink. I just remember thinking how cool everyone was, and why couldn't the colors be something else! The people won out, of course.

I still hate pink.

I may have told this before--
My roommate cut one sorority because the girl rushing her spent the whole party telling my roomie how to make a rhubarb pie (my roomie could have given a flying flip about cooking)

So she went Alpha Gam - they were a small, but real nice group.

this isn't about me, but my boyfriend...
when he was rushing last fall, i didn't know very much about specific fraternities, but i knew at least a few members from almost all of the groups, or at least had seen them around. but, i had never met a theta xi! i had seen their house on campus, and it's pretty big so i knew some members had to exist. i kept telling my man to pledge there because i wanted to meet "a real live theta xi!" of course, my bad advice was ignored completely towards pref(he humored me for awhile), but i did end up meeting a guy who pledged theta xi later that spring!

This thread has so made me laugh...

I know a girl who pledged a sorority just because she was a groupie of that fraternity who was paired as their homecoming partner that year!

I guess when I went through recruitment I didn't have the choice to cut. But, when I went through I hadn't planned on cutting a sorority because of colors or symbols. I will admit that I liked Alpha Chi because the lyre was the symbol and I was impressed with the musical connection. At any rate...

Reading through these threads reminds me of last year when I was a Rho Chi. I had this one girl who was sooo obsessed over the stupid nit picky things! One time she was discussing how she didn't like this one house because she didn't like their colors and their formal room was ugly. It was hilarious because everyone (including her) thought I was in this particular sorority so she was trying to knock the house and the sorority politely. So funny! The thing that's even funnier is that she actually joined that house! LOL!

When I was going through rush here at Ole Miss, I had my mind on a few sororities but I remember going to this one house, they are no longer on our campus, and HATING their house! I remembered I called my mother that night and told her that if for some reason that was the house I ended up in I was going to drop out and that I would rush again the next fall. Well, I didn't even need to go back to that house because I cut them after second round. I will say this, my best friend from highschool pledged that GLO and I ended up eating there a few times with her and guess what? After that fall, they started renovations on the place! CRAZY! So, I learned my lesson from that. However, they did have to leave campus because of money and low numbers.

I met a girl three years ago during rush who only wanted to be a KD because her name was K.D. Those were the first two letters of her initials, it stood fro like Karen Diane or something! She did end up pledging KD though! Crazy!

Ok, so I didn't go through formal rush or anything, but i have a story kinda related to cutting for stupid reasons...

when the local NPC told us they were voting our local group on, our greek advisor told us basically to look at every other NPC sorority that wasn't on campus, with the exception of one that has been kicked off like 3 times for hard core hazing in the 80's. well, that left us with 21 sororities. No offence to Sigma Delta Tau, but I didn't want to go them because I looked at the letters and all I saw was 'EAT'... I'm ashamed to say that....but it happened.

I did like Tri Delta for a few reasons, but the ones that fit here are the fact that the mascot is a dolphin(as a marine bio major, i think its in our requirements to love dolphins) and since delta means change, and it would be the third time our name was changed, I wanted Tri Delta, so we would have a special part in the name. corny, i know

I don't think that's corny at all. What an awesome way to tell someone part of your history as a local becoming a national! Anything that makes your letters more special to you is important.

When I went through Chi Omega's house tour, the girl that took me around talked like a kindergarden teacher. She had a little kid voice and the perfect diction for children. I was super tired and it seemed like I had to talk to her forever until someone came up and took me away. I left horrible because I tried so hard not to be rude to her, but they really should not let her rush PNM because her voice was really annoying.

At Sigma Kappa, I was rushed by a girl from a town near me that has the best BBQ i have evre had. We talked about that the whole time because her friends family owned the restaurant

I went through formal, but ended up dropping out. Well, I was going through my rush book trying to figure out which sorority I liked best. I ended up not giving DG much of a chance because of some stupid reasons.

Here Are Some of my Stupid Reasons:
1. I already had a preference for DZ because I loved their website and symbols. (I had been checking out each sorority's website throughout the summer.)
2. I couldn't picture myself being represented by an anchor.
3. I wanted so badly to drop SSS because I thought the letters looked dorky and I didn't like the idea of boats as paddles.

By the way, I have an acquaintance who ended up becoming a DG and I've met many of their girls. I honestly believe they are a wonderfully strong organization. Also, I'm glad I didn't end up being a DZ because I know I wouldn't get along with a lot of their girls. As for SSS, I think they are a great group of girls, but once again, not for me.

LOL!!!!

*bump* :)

A friend of mine (I'll call her Susie - the names have been changed to protect the innocent :) ) told me her dumb reason for not going back to a particular sorority.

The way our first round of formal rush worked, you went to each sorority's rush room for 10 minutes ("tours"), then there were 2 open houses totaling around 8 hours, where you could go back to any sorority you wanted for as long as you wanted.

When Susie got to XYZ's room during tours, pretty much the first thing her rusher asked her was "So, do you have any questions about XYZ?" She was caught very off guard, and blurted out the first thing that came to mind: "Tell me about your nationals." Turns out her rusher had gone to convention that summer, and so she talked her ear off about how exciting convention was for the entire ten minutes!

While I'm sure it was exciting for the sister to go to convention, Susie just couldn't get that excited about a convention for a sorority she had literally just been exposed to during rush. She was very put off, didn't go back to XYZ during open houses, and wound up dropping out of rush altogether.

A former friend of mine from school thought that I was a threat to her relationship with her boyfriend even though I set the two of them up so she made him stop talking to me. Of course he still does, just not in her presence. We were both pledging during the same semester and would talk about that a lot and he started calling me his "Greek buddy" this made her jealous because she didn't want there to be something that he could discuss with me and not her so she told her friends that she wants to rush next year so that he won't have a reason to talk to me. (Isn't she a sweetie?) Of course after hearing that, we are definitely not going to giver her a bid for KLP.

*bump*

There is a story that (without getting into detail) revolves around the Kappa house being haunted. A PNM cut us (even though she adored Kappa) because she was too scared to live in the house.

I know of girls who attended a house here and came out saying they were not going to go back if invited because they didn't like the way the house smelled.

Finally, one of my friends cut a house because they sang a sisterhood song on skit day. (Skit day is the second day of recruitment, sisterhood is not usually discussed until day four.) It freaked her out so she cut them.

Way back when, I think I *just* wanted to be an ABC because my favourite R.A. was one, so I just started hanging out with her and her ABC friends. They were nice, but I didn't really realize at the time that I probably would have fit in MUCH better with the XYZ's. In the end, I didn't join ABC, and when it was time for winter rush, I rushed XYZ, loved it, and got TOTALLY psyched to join, but they unfortunately cut me, because by then, I had become involved in too many other on-campus activities, and the girls didn't think I could make the commitment. It's okay, I'm still super friends with a lot of the XYZ girls, in fact, when one of my really good friends got a bid to XYZ this year, I hugged her and congratulated her, because that's what friends do, and she made it really clear that, XYZ or not, she'd still be my friend. So far, she's been as good as her word, and it's kind of a good thing, because, like I said, I've always been friends with the lovely ladies of XYZ (and some in ABC too, actually), and I'm just glad that my friend has become so close with them too.

I remember when I went through recruitment, I was pretty much set on where I wanted to go.... so we were at the first round parties and they started chanting... freaked the heck out of me... Then they did it the next night... and at pref. But, I still got over it because I loved the sisters... and I have found the chanting is actually really fun, but you can tell during recruitment we scare half of the girls.

This is kinda off on a tangent, but two of the family lines at my chapter have a tradition of making banners for their lils with pigs and bears representing each member of the family line. I am so glad that I'm not in either of those family lines, cuz my poor lils would've ended up getting the ugliest banners. I would've not been able to stand cutting all those little bears or pigs out of felt. This is an example of what one of those banners looks like: http://pic17.picturetrail.com/VOL816...86/4698869.jpg

THe diversions editor on the paper here went through recruitment twice (once fresh, once this year). Both times she's had extenuating circumstances to where she didn't finish rush. We were having a discussion about being Greek, and she told me, "Tau Delta is the only house I'm afraid to go into...those cats all around are just too scary!". I cried because I was laughing so hard. I told her that it is tradition to give ugly cat gifts, and I do mean UGLY. I hope she's considering Off Quota next year...she'd be an awesome sister :)

When I first went through recruitment at the University of Louisville I have to admit that I cut a few groups for the dumbest reasons. I even went back to one house for the only reason that their colors were my favorite colors!

I just love this topic!! I have been laughing so hard at some of these stories that my sides hurt. Anyways, I guess I am also guilty of the stupid reasons as well. I remember when I went through rush there was one party that I went to that after they served you (just punch and light finger type foods) the rusher would take you to a sofa or chair and you would sit down, than the ruser would kneel down in front of you and hold your food out for you, kind of like a human coffee table, needless to say I did not eat much or go back.
Than when it came to listing your choices I was torn between two. They are both great organizations and had super girls. It finally came down to their badges and what can I say, I just adore the golden quill!! Plus, I can not imagine my life with out Alpha Xi Delta in it!!

I know people keep saying "my friend" this and "my friend" that, but . . .

My friend (who went to Alabama) was totally interested in XYZ sorority and knew that was the sorority that she wanted to belong too. She had gotten the recs and checked out the house the year before, and was totally ready to go through rush. . .

She ended up dropping that sorority, because it was the first house she went to on the first day of rush (coincidentally) and was scared to death when a ton of girls were screaming at the door. She said she didn’t know what was happening, and she changed her mind then and there. Of course she obviously realized that all of the sororities yelled at the doors, but she had already mentally cut that one, because of the bad experience. She was more prepared for the other houses and they didn’t "scare" her. She ended up getting in a great sorority at Alabama.

(I do hope I have her story correct, anyway, it was something close to that. I found it interesting because after she told me that I was ready for my rush which was the next week @ North Alabama)

I don't have a cool "cut for crazy reasons" story. I thought the 4 sororities at UNA all had great aspects. (one was a little "blonder" then the rest)

I know of one group that I would cut because I don't like their colors..I haven't seen a lot of items with them on them so I may have a distorted idea of what the actual colors are. f

I would also cut some b/c of their mascot/symbol. I need something I can find around town, lol.

After the first night of Rush, we were told that we could write down little notes about each sorority so we could remember them the next day when we had to cut some. One girl in my group couldn't remember how to write Gamma Phi Beta's letters, so she cut them!

Another girl cut Sigma Kappa because she thought that the Sigma looked like a "funny E"

:rolleyes:

still makes me laugh!

Hahaha! This makes me laugh because on our Alpha (new member) retreat, some of the older girls did a skit for us and we're calling themselves "I Ate A Pies" and the "80 Pound Thighs" as a joke! It was really funny! But, some of the new girls were really worried that people called us that on campus! of course no one really does, but i think some of those girls wouldn't have stuck it out if they thought that they would get called those names... :p

LOL... this topic is hilarious!

I rushed in Fall 2004, and I'm the first Greek in my family, so i had NO CLUE about what was going on, or how to decide which house to cut, or anything really.

I ended up cutting one house because it smelled funny, and another because the girl who was talking to me had bad breath and an annoying voice and she just kept STARING at me! I was totally creeped out by her!

I thought I would be "above" cutting a group for stupid reasons (considering I just went through rush a year ago!) but there were two that I just could not go back to!

At the third party I went to a girl put her hang on my leg and said "you look just like a girl in the chapter you would definitely fit it" and then just stared. Needless to say I was so freaked out I made sure I never went back there. I don't know if the rest of the sorority has nice girls in it, I was just so creeped out by the one that I couldn't focus on anything else! I hate when people that I don't know touch me, especially on my leg so that was a deal breaker!

At the first party I went to a girl started telling me about the chapter's Bible study. That was great and all, but I am not a religious person so I knew I wouldn't be too interested in that. I tried to get her to talk about the philanthropy or any activities they did but she just kept talking about Bible study. I swear I just sat there with glazed eyes for about 10 minutes while she went on about the meeting times and how she had lead a couple of the meetings and etc etc..... It kind of scared me and made me think that to join them I would have to become super religous. I now know some girls in the chapter and they laugh when I tell them about it. If she had just mentioned SOMETHING else about the group it would have been fine!!

I feel silly now for letting one girl in a chapter influence my decisions.. but obviously I am happy where I am so I wouldn't change it for the world!

Dropping formal rush
 

This thread makes me laugh - I dropped out of formal rush for a stupid reason, but I think it was probably meant to be -

In the first week of classes I made friends with a guy who was in two of my classes. So I agreed to tag along with him to a fraternity rush event (He figured, if you show up with women, what fraternity wouldn't want you? ha)

While I was there I was mobbed by members of XYZ sorority who totally dirty rushed me and this other girl (It was hands off week so none of them were allowed to talk to us, much less 5 of them). The other freshman girl and I were both polite and everything at first, but later we both went to the restroom together and 'fessed that these women were the dumbest, shallowest, bimbos we had ever met. So we made up some really crazy story and left, giggling the whole way. Well when I attended the pre-rush meeting the Rho Chis told us that we had to go to EVERY house. ohmigod there was no way I could show my face at XYZ after that silly story I told them. It had not occurred to me that I had to go to every house no matter what!

So I dropped out of formal rush completely to avoid having that one house.

Anyway, it worked out well because I had a semester to see the REAL character off all the houses and ended up getting an informal bid to Kappa in the Spring, which I knew all along was the only house for me.

And although I didn't choose on color, I don't think there's anything wrong with it - I mean, its the color you wear the rest of your life, might as well like it! ha

Paula

We once had a New Member who was an artist, and drew a really cool poster of "80 Pies" - making each of us a "Pie"!

I’m not sure if this is a stupid reason but at the time it made sense and quite honestly it still makes sense. I went to a sports night at XYZ fraternity to watch the game and have dinner. As the event ended some actives went on a beer run and then the night really took off as we…watched Legally Blonde. Look I admit now that I’m Greek I find more humor in movies like Legally Blonde or Sorority Boys but as a prospective new member I couldn’t help but feel that it was way to feminine for me. I decided that night that XYZ was just not for me.

Ok, I would have thought that was weird too. LOL

Way back in the day when I rushed, at Ball State all the guys had to go through Round Robin and visit all of the fraternities. Some things that made me cut houses after that round...

Snapping and chanting at the front door. I was ok with the chanting, but the snapping wierded me out!

One chapter had an active brother who was at least 40 years old! Not an advisor, not an alum, but an active brother who was old enough to be my dad! That really wierded me out since they were the smallest fraternity too!

One house absolutely REEKED of Polo cologne. Literally all 80 brothers were wearing it. Everyone in my round robin group made fun of it too.

On one house tour, the active said "This is where we usually get high..."

I really liked the guys I met at Phi Sig, but the thing that sort of clenched it for me was that they had Sigma, their Chow mascot. I was going through major dog withdrawl at the time...

The ironic thing is, when I was house corp president, I was the one who had it written into the lease that pets were forbidden! (long story)

At Long Beach we did bus tours, I Drop two houses because they didn't have chapter house. Another house all had polo shirts and sweaters on, it seem kinda gay. One house had a guy i went to high school with and i did not like him, but his hous was cool, but i still drop them. I was between two house TKE and Sigma Pi. I love TKE, and ended up picking them because of the "chanting and snapping" which i thought was cool. Only reason why i ever considered Sigma Pi was because they had a nice house.