My Gamma Chi's One was a KKG and the other one was a Tri-Delta!! It was so funny because we totally guessed what they were just by there actions at there houses. And my Gamma Chi turned out to be my Key Sis later on OMG that was so funny!!

Well one of my rho chi's was an AXO - except her chapter put a little video clip in their slide show and I look up and go, "hey, that's my rho chi!" :p

My other rho chi was a Kappa (Though at first I thought she was a ChiO). Going back to the whole rho chi really liking a certain PNM thing - I loved my rho chi, but she did seem to really really get along with one girl in my recruitment group. They would always sit there and talk in between parties and before getting invites. Well after pref parties, we were walking to go pref chapters and my rho chi was talking to this girl who had gone to Kappa and another chapter's pref parties. The girl was weighing the pros and cons of each chapter when I see my rho chi look at her and smile and whisper something in her ear after which the girl was jumping up and down and getting excited. Low and behold, the next day the girl received a bid from and pledged Kappa. :rolleyes: Actually come to think of it, there was another girl in a group that knew our rho chi was a kappa because the rho chi had dated her brother. The girl skipped out on her last party of 1st round (a BIG no-no that will usually result in you being cut from recruitment) because she didn't particularly 'like' the house though she'd never visited it before. Nothing ever happened, and in fact that girl ended up going Kappa as well.

Mine was a Pi Phi. Her sisters gave her away by dancing around her when they were doing cheers since that didn't happen at any of the other houses.

We didn't have a big reveal or any formal guessing though. It sounds like other schools have some great traditions!

I had a Chi O, a Phi Mu, and a DG. I only guessed one right, the Chi O. I thought the Phi Mu was a Chi O and the DG was an ADPi.

I had an AGD and Pi Phi. I guessed the AGD but I had no idea the other was a Pi Phi. Anyways I kept seeing one around campus.

My RC was Christy....I was only 17 when I rushed...and the first time I met her I was blown away...she was absolutely everything I imagined a sophisticated college girl would be! sweet, thoughtful, poised, confident and a top design student. All week long she knew I was torn between my mom's sorority, and the one I fell in love with day one....She never dirty rushed me but I was so excited to find out on bid day that she was, of course, a Gamma Phi! :)

Back in the day my rush counselor was an AGD; I didn't guess, but I remember when my big sis was a rush counselor the next year- she said that her heart just swelled with pride the first time she brought her group to our house and we rushed out singing!!!

If memory serves me correctly, my freshman year Rush Counselor (we didn't call them Rho Chis) was a Chi Omega and my sophomore year RC was an ADPi.

Mine was a Kappa, the other three in our group were Zeta, TriDelt, and PiPhi- I guessed all 4 correctly!

my rho gammas were 2 adpis, a dz and and axid. i knew for sure that one was an adpi and guessed that one was a dz. i was happy to learn that the axid and i were going to be sisters.

One is a Chi Omega and the other is an ADPi. I think they've both graduated though.

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Mine was a DG, and she was such a sweetie!!!

Mine was an Alpha Gam...we all thought she was Phi Mu or Kappa. She was so wonderful though!

Mine was a DG. Thought she was a Zeta

Mine was an AXiD and I remember guessing wrong (I think I guessed Gamma Phi Beta) and when I was a Rho Gamma, I got a couple Zeta guesses, one Chi Omega, one said AXiD, and one said Gamma Phi Beta. :p But the couple who guessed right said they could just tell - can't hide that Zeta pride I guess!

The first time I rushed I had three rho chis, one from Pi Phi, one from Alpha Phi, one from Delta Gamma (I guessed them all wrong except for the DG b/c I knew her lol) The second time I rushed I had three rho chis again :), one from Delta Zeta, one from Alpha Phi, and one Kappa Alpha Theta, I was two out of three.... well I knew the one from Alpha Phi. I thought the one from Theta was a DG.

Looks like I got had a rho chi from almost every sorority on campus at my college teehee.

Didn't have one. Got to know members of all houses without them pretending it didn't matter which one you chose.

Not telling
 

Because of Behavior Not Becoming a Rho Chi:

Early during rush, I approached her at a party, and asked "why do you HAVE to go to every house, even if you're running around with one of the sister's boyfriends and know you'll be cut?"

She was really drunk and said "oh wow, you're the one [campus romeo] was cheating on XX with? The only person that DG cut after first rounds? Wow! I didn't put it together that person was you! All the Rho Chis are talking about you!"

Yes, that would be me. I dated ONE GUY my freshman year - count 'em - ONE, and it almost got me cut everywhere.

She was mortified later, and said she shouldn't have told me that. Oddly enough, we're still friends today - she lives in my area!

I should write a retro rush thread, but I'm pretty sure no one would believe it.

When I went through formal recruitment in Fall 2005, my floor had 2 Rho Chi's. One was a DZ and the other was a Theta. We all guessed the one who was a Theta, but we went back and forth on the affiliation of the DZ.

My Rho Chi was a Sigma Kappa. I'm sure I gave her fits during rush since I came in with pre-conceived ideas. I've never had much of a censor on my frontal lobe so I'm sure I regaled her with my opinions as well. She was a very sweet woman, but I didn't use her services much. When I was a Rho Chi later, most of my girls figured out that I was an AOII, but I had one sweet little Phi Mu legacy in my group. She was the only rushee I had that pledged Phi Mu, and she was so sure that I was a Phi Mu as well. She was really upset and cried when I told her that I was not one of her new sisters. I felt a little sorry for her, even though I knew she'd get over a hundred new, wonderful sisters in less than ten minutes!
Incidentally, I knew my Rho Chi was a Sigma Kappa from day one. I had my sister's yearbook from the year before. I don't think I told anyone else from my Rho Chi group. I have a big mouth, but I think I did use some discretion even at 17!

One of mine was a Zeta, and the other was an Alpha Xi. I knew who the Zeta was because I went through rush as a sophomore, and my freshman roommate was a Zeta, so I'd seen her several times before. I was a good girl and didn't tell anyone else, though! I was pretty sure the other one was an Alpha Xi, too. They were both great.

Hee hee - I'm reminded of something that happened during my rho chi training. We were acting out various scenarios, learning how to counsel PNMs (e.g. a PNM who didn't get any invitations, a PNM who wanted to suicide, etc). One of the scenarios I got was "OMG, so I'm pretty sure you're an AEPhi and I'd love to be your sister! AEPhi is top of my list because of you! Can't you tell me whether you're an AEPhi or not?"

(Answer: You have a one in seventeen chance of being right, and anyway, a sorority is more than just one person - you should think about where you're most comfortable with most of the sisters, not just one.)

Funnily enough, most of my PNMs thought I was a Sigma Kappa. A bunch of them went Sigma Kappa, too, and none of them went AEPhi. *shrug*

Mine was a Phi Mu! I was actually thinking that she was an AOII though. It was kind've funny though, because I knew what every other Rho Chi was that year except mine. I had been around a good bit during my senior year of high school (senior visit days and just visiting friends that I already knew at LU), so I had met alot of them. But, I guess that worked out well for me.

I would have NEVER guessed mine had I not known my inside info. I was looking at the different websites for the chapters at my school, and happened to see the name of one of my rho chis on the website. I know this is really bad, so I never said anything. I was pretty shocked because I thought she was something else. The other I really thought she was ADPi and SHOCKED to find out she was ZTA on bid day. She is definitley not the sterotypical ZTA at my school.

We had 2 groups that went around together. The Rho Chi of the other group was a D Phi E and our Rho Chi was a Sigma Kappa. I had NO idea about either one as I went into recruitment pretty clueless about the different sororities.

When I was a Rho Chi, my group swore up and down that I was a Phi Sig.....which was SOOOOO hilarous to me, because if you knew the Phi Sigs at my alma mater, and you knew me, we couldnt be more different!

Some of my girls guessed that I was in Sigma Kappa because they saw a picture of me in a scrapbook. My face was covered, but not my hair, and they were like "You're the only Rho Gamma with short brown hair." Luckily, they didn't tell the rest in my group. The ones who didn't know guessed that I was in Theta or AOII.

I was wrong about all two of mine. I guessed the Phi Mu was a DG, the DG was an ADPi, and the Chi O I got right.

We made our group guess every night. I was overwhelmingly a Chi O on the first night. By the third about a fourth were convinced I was a DG because they swore that my "sisters" had accidentally left a picture of me uncovered. Neither I nor the DG's I know can figure out who I got mixed up with to this day. Two thought I was an ADPi because I talked to their alum a lot and got bleary-eyed at their video (I was Exec and got to go into the parties and that video was amazing), only a few guessed Alpha Gam. One said I had the personality for it (the best compliment I got the whole time) and one said she just couldn't see me anywhere else. They didn't guess anything else.


On Pref night I on purpose chose to wear what the Chi O's wear on Pref night (they wear black and pearls, which we wear on Open House, and red and pearls on Open House, which we wear for pref, so I just switched) since the majority of my group thought I was one. I went to my own pref party first and tried as hard as I could not to cry, but in the end I did. A few of them even saw it. I had many of the same girls for Chi O, which I went to next. I sat next to their adviser and talked to her, but didn't even get close to tearing up (they have a great pref, but it's not the same when it's not your own chapter). My girls were walking out of the room winking at me and giving me thumbs up. And I am going...

COME ON.

Besides, if I were a Chi O, would I really have worn my own Pref night outfit to pref? Wouldn't that be TOO easy?

Sneaky ;)

When I was a rho chi, we were instructed not to wear anything resembling any chapter's pref night outfits on pref night. The Alpha Phis wore white and everyone else wore black, so that meant we could wear whatever we wanted as long as it wasn't all-black or all-white. I wore a black-and-white print.

We didn't have such creatures. We had summertime "big sisters" who were really pen pals who were sorority members. They weren't required to hide their affiliation.

Nor were we required to visit all the chapters on campus.

When I was a Rho Chi, we interviewed talked with our groups about stereotypes on the first day (i.e. there are different kinds of people in every org) and from those meetings we extracted what we thought some of the steroetypes were and tried to break those thoughts throughout recruitment. One of the fun things we did was wear things things that the PNMs claimed that certain sororities wore (Phi Mus always wore Tiffany silver pearls with silver pearl earings, Sigma Kappa always wore overalls, ZTA always wore black pants, AZDs were "hippie-ish"). So different Rho Chis would wear those stereotype outfits to PNM meetings. The night before Rho Chi reveal we had the girls sooo confused, one PNM would say that I was a Phi Mu because she saw me wear tiffanys silver pearls, another would say that I was a SK because I wore overalls....

My Rho Chis were an AZD (though I swore she was a Phi Mu) and a Phi Mu (who I swore was a Zeta).

We're still waiting on this, P - it's one I would absolutely read!:D

I wasn't either, but I did anyway, because I didn't want to assume the first person who was nice to me in a sorority was in the right sorority for me.

I didn't have a Rho Chi because I went through structured informal - the only disaffiliated people were the Panhel officers (one of whom became my 3 big).

Why are you so against Rho Chis, Tess?

She's apparently against anything traditionally Greek.

And because using Rho Chis and forcing all rushees to go to every house is denying these young women their individuality and responsibility to take care of themselves. Why do they need to be lead around campus by the nose and required to spend 20 minutes with a group before making a lifelong decision that is then followed by a much-too-short pledge period? They should know everything at 18 or 19, they are adults after all, should experience the "good" parts of hazing and don't need to be beaten over the head by risk management training.

... or something to that effect.... am I close?

I don't believe in hiding affiliation.

I believe young women who are attending college are capable of making up their own minds. I don't think they need to be spoon-fed; if they make a wrong decision, it's part of the learning experience. We all make wrong decisions in our lives. We learn; we move on.

I don't think it's important to make young women believe any sorority is better than no sorority.

Mind you, I despise formal rush as it's done on most campuses, too. It reminds me of arranged marriages, with PanHel standing in for parents. I think it leads to the type of membership selection that is stereotyped and leads to selection based on looks or clothes rather than souls and minds.

Thank you for responding in my stead.

And no, for all your astute observations, I'm not. I'm all for candle-passing ceremonies, rushing, pledging, semester-long pledgeships, pledge rituals, and life-long commitment. I believe pledges should get to know all the sisters in the house, should have to do chores for the good of the house, and should learn. I believe sisterhood is for life, but I don't like all my blood sisters either.

Thank you for replying in my stead.

BINGO!!!! Nailed it!!! Where's my prize?!? :)

Nor need you agree with me. However, expecting reward for understanding someone else's position is not very adult, is it?

"Seek first to understand" is a very valuable lesson. Becoming catty about same is less than becoming, in my opinion.