Here goes my rush story....

I went through rush as a junior, after my best friend had rushed the year before me, and was a DG. I didn't think that I would get a house because I was so old (relatively speaking). My campus has seven houses, AOPi, A-Phi, DZ, Tr-Delt, DG, GPhiB, and Sigma Kappa.

On info night I would have been totally overwhelmed, but I saw my best friend and was much calmer because of it.

After info night, I knew a few things for sure. I was not GPhiB or AOPi material. The Gamma Phi's were all really blonde, stick-thin and silicone-laden. On the other hand, the AOPi's just did not do a lot to present themselves well physically. When you are a bigger girl, you should just not wear skin tight clothes.

On day one, I had pretty much the same feelings, but was crazy about Sigma Kappa and Delta Gamma. I knew that I had a tough decision ahead of me, because my best friend was a DG, but I loved all the Sig Kaps that I met, they were just so down to earth and beautiful and wonderful.

On day two, everybody got four parties, and I went back to DG, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Phi, and Gamma Phi Beta (I have no idea how I got called back there). The conversations at Alpha Phi and GPhiB were awful and I couldn't wait for the parties to be over. But I left SigKap and DG, knowing that I could be a sister at either house.

Pref was horrid. I went to DG's pref first, and my best friend preffed me. I was already very torn about what to do, and that just did not help. She told me something that stuck with me until I filled out my bid card, and that was that I should go where my heart took me.

After DG's pref, I went to Sigma Kappa's pref and felt instantly like I was a sister. I started crying during Sigma Kappa's pref, and knew that was where I belonged. But I was still torn, because I thought that I should join DG with my best friend.

I talked to my rho chi, and she told me that I should join the house that I thought I could turn to if I ever had a problem.

I filled out my bid card, and put Sigma Kappa first.

The next day I got my bid to Sigma Kappa, and have been a Lil Snakey K ever since. And my DG best friend and I? We have always been and will always be best friends. I know that I made the right decision in my choice of house, and will never second guess that.

Love in Sigma,

Lil Snakey K

That's a great story, Snakey!!! I know how hard it can be to separate your old friends from your greek life. I rushed with one of my oldest, dearest friends, and she got cut from Chi O. She is a very quirky, funny, somewhat sarcastic but down-to-earth girl, not at all the superficial type. She actually seems like the kind of girl who would want nothing to do with greek life, so I was pleasantly surprised when she rushed. She reminds me of the cartoon character Daria from MTV. Anyway, even when she got cut from Chi O she encouraged me, saying "I knew they were going to cut me, but I can really see you there." We took pictures together on bid day, me in my Chi O letters, she in her A Xi D letters (who I had cut and she knew it.) We were close enough that it didn't matter to us at all. Yes, it would have been fun to be sisters, but to this day I am closely in touch with her and yet I never see any of the girls from my old XO clique. If something like which sorority you go into breaks apart a friendship, then it wasn't much to begin with.

i just can't resist
 

Wow its enough to make any girl want to relive her own rush experience. Well mine was a bit different because I was a sophmore and when I was freshman I wasn't into the whole greek thing. My friend was a gphib and always told me I should rush so just to shock everyone and try it out for myself. So me and my best friend lived together during rush week and we both rushed. At my school these are the NPC sororities:
AOII
ADP
gphib
piphi
chio
tridelt
From my freshman year I knew the reps, and was leaning towards piphi and tridelt, but I tried to remain impartial. There was an info night the first night 20 minutes in each room talking with about two other rushies to one sister. It was horrible in every house because you didn't get to talk on one I was totally turned off. Finally I went to tri delt and I talked to one girl by myself the whole time. It was awesome we totally conncted.
The next night you went to every house again, a Philanthropy night theme and it was fun I liked most of the houses, but I was unimpressed by adpi. The girl that I was with talked about getting drunk in Mexico with the PIKES non stop we were stuffing these little animals as a project and that was one over stuffed bear let me tell you. I was no expert but I knew that was not what you were supposed to talk about during rush. In all the other houses I felt at home though because I knew a few girls in every house. The next morning I had gotten invited back to all the houses so I had to drop two (we were only allowed four for skit night) I dropped AOII and ADII I just wasn't feelin them.
Skit night at Gamma Phi was awesome I didn't mention it, but they have a kinda snoty reputation, but they were doing a great job rushing that year everyone loved them. They had so much energy and all the girls rushing me were so nice that I kinda knew something was up. They had decorated thier chapeter room like MTV spring break and it was way cute, just a little to transparent. Then I went to ChiO which was really nice, but they had us sit on chair and the girls rushing us were on the floor so it was awkward. The skit had energy, but it was almost scary and this one girl sat way to close to me and kept saying how I just had to hang out with her, and come back and stuff. Then I went to Pi Phi, it was their last year doing grease and it was amazing. I knew a few of the girls and had a great conversation, I was leaning their way. Well then I went to Tri Delt, and I hate to say it, but althought the skit was cute, it was outdated and I talked to some people that I didn't click with I was more confused then ever.
That night me and my friend talked, my first mistake, and she told me she was going to go pi phi and then tri delt for pref night, and I was like me to, then she told me she was going to put piphi first and tri delt secone, I was like oh okay. We really wanted to be in the same house which made it even harder. I was also a Tri Delta legacy which made everything just a larger mess.
I went in to get invites not knowing what to do, I dropped chio and gphib and went with my hear knowing I had had one great night at tri delt, and a few a pi phi i just neede on last night to decide.
Pref night I was so nervous I went to Tri Delta first and Pi Phi second, my friend did the opposite. I was prefed by the girl I had talked to the first night, and it was amazing, one of the speeches was even about what an amazing sister the girl who prefed me was I cried, I was sold. Then I went to talk to my friend during the break, second mistake. She had the same feeling about pi phi I had just had at tri delt, and she was really persusive about piphi I was feeling the pressure. I should have known when I didn't know the girl prefing me it was down hill. I had talked to her, but it turned out that the reason she prefed me was I was Stephs friend. I didn't feel comfortable although it was beautiful and touching.
I went out and talked to my friend, and she was all about piphi, when I filled out my bid card I put piphi first, I think. The trouble was I looked at another card after I filled mine out and first was on the inside collumn and second on the outside, I had it turned around or did I? I was so confused and scared I had convinced myself that if me and my friend weren't in the same house it wouldn't work.
Well on bid day when I opened my card it was the Tri Delta crest. Wow it was wierd even though it was my second choice I didn't feel sad at all. I felt sad because my friend was piphi and I wasn't, but I was happy. After a long year I realized, whatever I put first didn't matter I had ended up where I belong where I now call my home.

Rush experience
 

I rushed because my entire family was Greek, and they pushed me a lot.
My campus has the following NPC groups

AChiO
ADPi
AEPhi
AGD
AOPi
APhi
ChiO
DDD
DG
DZ
GPhiB
KAT
KD
KKG
Phi Mu
Phi SS
PBPhi
SK
SDT

Round 1 started at Pi Phi's. Honestly, these girls scared me a lot. I was really unsure what to expect, and I hate to say it, but all the girls looked the same to me. I was really worried that every sorority would be cookie-cutter.

(as a side note, it is really funny that this was my first impression, because I would now consider Pi Beta Phi one of the strongest chapters on this campus)

After round one, I had the following opinions:

Really liked KD, GPhi B, AChiO, Alpha Phi, and Phi Mu
Really disliked DZ, AGD, KKG, SDT and AOPi

I should mention that I am a legacy to SDT. Not only was my mom an SDT on this campus, she was Pin and Paddle Queen the year she pledged, and her picture is still in the chapter room there.

I also knew a ton of AEPhi's, because my brother is an AEPi, and the two are very close on this campus.

I was invited back to

ADPi
AEPhi
AOPi
APhi
DZ
GPhiB
KD
Phi Mu
Phi SS
PBPhi
SK
SDT

I was pretty happy with this. I could choose 10, so I dropped DZ and SDT (which probably broke my mother's heart more than she would admit). Of course, when I compared with my friends, I found out all three of them had been invited back to all 19 chapters. That was a bit of a blow, but I got over it.

So after round 2, I had the following opinions:
Really liked Phi Mu, Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, KD, and GPhiB
Really disliked AOPi and Phi Sigma Sigma

I got invited back to every house but KD, so I was really excited! I had to go to five, so I chose to go back to Phi Mu, Alpha Phi, Pi Beta Phi, GPhiB, and AEPhi.

We preffed Wednesday morning, then had until Friday off. The story got good, however, when my Rho Chi called me Wednesday afternoon, to tell me there was a computer error. Apparently, some of the houses had not yet released women. My new list had the following:

AEPhi
ADPi
Phi Mu
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Kappa

I was crushed. They didn't even give me a new scantron; I actually had to erase the houses I thought I had originally chosen. This is where I almost dropped out of rush.

Fortunately, I had an amazing Rho Chi. She told me to pretend that these were the only five chapters on campus, and choose one that I like. She also reminded me that she knew my favorite was still on the list (I had loved Phi Mu from the beginning), and if I loved them that much, they probably loved me too.

Obviously, I stuck it out. The philanthropy stage wasn't that interesting. I got invited back to three prefs and I didn't even care which ones as long as one was Phi Mu.

Phi Mu pref party was first, and I was introduced to Jorie, a girl I hadn't met before, but she was totally awesome. I thouhgt it was great that these girls knew me well enough to set me up with someone that fit me so well. I walked out crying.

I attended my other two parties out of respect for the other chapters but my decision was already made. Actually, I was so nervous at Phi Mu that I did not want to eat anything, so I chowed down at the other two houses. One of my brother's best friends was a senior in AEPhi. Seniors do not participate in rush, but they asked her to pref me to put on pressure. She refused, and I have tremendous respect for her for that.

I then suicided Phi Mu and signed my name with no doubt in my mind that I would be wearing their letters the next day.

That night, I saw Jorie at the bar, and walked right up to her to ask if she was my sister. We laugh about it to this day.

congrats
 

if you are happy, bravo...
that's what's it all about.
have a ball
mmcat
:) :p :D ;)

Cute Story DeltaBetaBaby
 

I loved your story!
i'll share a little of mine, of what i remember

I went through formal rush as a sophmore. We have a smaller greek system on campus so the Sors are:
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Alpha Xi Dleta
Zeta Tau Alpha
Phi Mu
Gamma Phi Beta
I wasn't sure if i was going to rush, because my freshman year I had been hanging out with a bunch of anti greek kids, but i moved to a different dorm and there were a bunch of AXiD's on my floor and a tri sigma. I got to know all of those ladies and decided my preconcieved ideas of sors & frats were all wrong.
So sophmore year comes along and My roomate was a GPhiB legacy so she was going to rush, and the girl next door to us as well (they were really good friends since they met during freshman orientation) So i went to info night, and decided i was going to just do it.
Since not all the Sors' have houses on campus, we have rush in a different place. So the first night after all the parties i was pretty confused. I had jumped into this blind, not knowing much on each chapter or anything.That night we had grade cuts--and everything got messed up. SOme cut for grades some cut just to cut and all the sors had to get back togethter and re-do their grade cuts. So we found out the next morning before our parties. I missed the next day, so i think that might have made a difference.
The next day was ok, tri sigma didn't impress me with their skit so i cut them first- i didn't feel very comfortable with them either, AXiD had a cute skit and so did GPhiB-theirs was western themed. Phi Mu's skit made me laugh and one of the girls i hungout with last year-so i was totally impressed, because i never realized she wore her letters in front of me all the timelast year! Zeta's was my last party and theirs was very good. It seemed like they really put alot of time and effort into it--it was a STOMP theme. very cute. I was invited back to AXid, Zeta, GPhiB and Phi Mu.
That day was interesting. Going into rush i really thought i might go AXiD, but i felt like no one wanted to talk to me even though i liked their philanthropy. they were actually rude. GPhiB was still fun and i really liked them, but their craft was difficult to finish and confusing. Zeta we watched a video and painted flowerpots, and the girl i was talking to was quite impressed that i was artistic in anyway, because she admited that she wasn't-they rotated girls so i got to talk to a few, then we went outside and released pink balloons for breast cancer victims. I like their philanthropy b/c my aunt had breast cancer. Phi Mu was next and we made the cutest little thing called a boo boo bunny (for little kids in the hospital-you put ice in them) their video was really emotional and made people cry. I still liked phi mu. This is where it got hard. I dropped AXiD right away and kept the rest. I really liked GPhiB, Phi Mu, and Zeta. I figured Zeta would cut me because i weighed well over 115 pounds and it seemed that every girl there was under that, but i still really got along well with all the ladies there.
I loved GPhiB because they seemed interested in me, But so did Phi Mu. Phi Mu ladies seemed so nice and sweet. I crossed my fingers to get another day with all three.
well, when i went to go look at where i would be going for pref: Phi Mu. I was happy and excited, but also disapointed that GPhiB didn't invite me back. I was thinking that this is where i wanted to go, plus i knew my rho chi was a phi mu (her toenails gave it away--pink w/ flowers, just like some of the others) Everything was so beautiful at pref and the girl who preffed me i didn't get to talk to much but she made me feel like everyone wanted me there, and then i saw my friend glance at me and smile, and i knew that i wanted to be a Phi Mu. I lied and told them that i was going to another pref after theirs, just to make them worry.
Bid yell came and i was so excited. when they called my name with a long pause and then Phi Mu, my new sisters ran up to me threw a shirt overmy head and pulled me into the crowd. :)

a side note; during this whole time of me being confused of where i wanted to go, my poor roomate was so heartbroken: her final two were AXiD and her sister's (biological) GPhiB. PLUS the girl next door was trying to decide between the same. Bid night: My roomate went AXiD and her friend went GPhiB, they were crushed, my roomate was confused and they both dropped out. This year my roomate from that year went through again and finally is back home with AXiD-what she wanted all along. :confused:



~*LES SOEURS FIDELES*~

Just a question.....has NPC mandated rush parties across the board? It seems like everyone who has rushed recently tells the same story as far as parties go: party 1 "info night'" party 2 skit, party 3 philanthropy where you actually make something (???) and then pref. Our rush was never ANYTHING like this. It was basically 4 parties where you entertained the girls, plied them with nice food (ours was always the best because one of our sisters' parents ran a high-end catering business and every year they catered for us) and chatted them up. There was a skit, I think it was 2nd or 3rd party, and there was one night where we went over all the financial crap.

Rush was really cool back when I went through. The girls would come bursting out of their houses in their costumes, singing and dancing, and they would grab the rushees and go inside. They gave us little gifts, like I remember getting a picture frame from Chi Omega, and we got to take stuff with us (such as the financial info sheets, some of the chapters went all out and made these elaborate scrolls, and then during pref we got letters from our rushers to take home, and we also got flowers) Then suddenly it was decided that it wasn't fair to the chapters to do it this way and then the rushees weren't allowed to take ANYTHING from the houses, not even a napkin!!!! And they started making us do parties 1 and 2 in these tiny, identical rooms at the student center and they were very strict about what props and decorations we could have, and no food. This made no sense to me because everyone has a house, but I guess Panhel felt that since some of the houses are nicer than others it wasn't fair. And no more singing. The rushees get escorted in by the PXs and the members aren't allowed to come out at all....members used to drive the rushees from house to house but now it is all alums. (Funny anecdote: my soph. year I got rearended by one of my sisters while driving for rush. I had seven rushees crammed into my little Celica and they all screamed!! I wanted to kill my sister but of course I had to act all gracious and sweet for the rushees!!! One year an Alpha Phi hit a DG head on (not hard) whizzing out fraterity circle for a rush party! Thank God nobody got hurt!!!!)

south vs north rush
 

i would love to see how it is done in the south compared to how it is done up here in the north. Somthing tells me that i might have to pull together a road trip to my Aunts house in Boca Raton Florida and visit some otehr schools just to see the (huge) differences. Any Phi Mu's in florida want me to visit???? hehee

I experienced rush like you did and it was awesome. I will never forget walking into the the Tri Delta house and a boarding pass being shoved in my hand. We were lead into a room that had been converted into the cabin of an airplane. The seats even had seatbelts on them and our "stewardesses" made sure we were buckled in before take off. We were served peanuts from Delta Airlines. Their skit was the "movie". It was really cute.

Beginning in 1991, Rush went "No Frills" under the NPC Unanimous (sp?) Agreements. Things were to be gradually phased out with complete no frills instituted by 1995 or there about. Singing is permitted but only if it is essential to the event.

I remember reading the study NPC conducted behind this change. In some areas, Rush budgets were outrageous. I won't name the school but several chapters there had rush budgets of over $20,000. How could the less affluant chapters compete with $25,000 of gourmet glitz while all they had was $2,000 and a fruit tray? The "No Frills" policy was supposed to put everyone on an even footing and bring rush back to the basics - making a friend then making a sister - through conversaton.

In the south, many chapters still do skits but it cannot last for like 10 minutes of a 45 min. party. (This varies by school.) There can be extra decorations like for preference and skit, but not the other times. Some schools have their Panhellenic Recruitment Rules on their web sites. If your every bored to tears one day, just do a search. It's really interesting.

Rushee from Hell
 

Gosh, that was me. Rushee from Hell. I was a horrible rushee, I am ashamed to say.

I grew up about 20 minutes from where I went to college so I spent a lot of my junior and senior years of high school going to parties and bars (shhh, don't tell my mom ;) ) there. I had done lots of recon work so by the start of my freshman year I already knew that I either wanted to be a Delta Zeta or a Chi Omega. The sisters I had met were all gorgeous, they seemed really nice and the fraternity guys were falling all over them. Yes, looking back, that seems to be pretty flimsy criteria to base a lifelong decision on and yes, I was stupid to do that! But I was 18 and I didn't have all my buddies at GreekChat to help out!!! Noooo, I just had Pooch the SAE brother telling me "Oh man, the DZ's are SO HOT" lol

Anyhoo....
Rush started and I got invited back to all 12 sororities and I cut all but DZ, Chi-O and Tri-Delt (my heart was set on the first two, but I was assured that Tri-Delt was one of the big three so I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, or two baskets as it turns out) I was so awful; I didn't even pretend to be interested at the other 9 houses. I'm not even sure why I got invited back by them, if I'd been a sister, I would have cut my rude a$$ after the first round.

I kept going back to DZ, XO and DDD until it was preference parties round and then I went to DZ and XO parties. They both rushed me really hard and I loved both places and knew that, socially, I couldn't go wrong with either one. But the preference ceremony really touched me at DZ and I found myself getting teary eyed there. It was my first inkling that maybe there really IS something to this sisterhood thing beyond going to parties together and borrowing each other's fabulous clothes.

So I put DZ first and Chi-O second and the next day I opened my envelope and read that I was cordially invited to join the sisterhood of Delta Zeta :) I was the happiest of happy campers! I looked around at my pledge sisters, a uniform group with pretty faces, adorable figures and great clothes and thought "Let the fun begin!"

Then reality set in. I had a pledge mom who expected me to actually memorize things like our founders, our creed, the greek alphabet, etc. We had study hours for pete's sake; what was THAT all about??? I just wanted to party with all the cute guys who were suddenly panting after me! Yes, I was an obnoxious pledge :( We all were, I guess. We were just thinking about our letters, not the commitment behind them.

Our Founders Day is in October and my first Founders Day is what helped to open my eyes as to the true meaning of being in a sorority. Alumnae came from all over to celebrate with us, including an 80 year old sister who had been president of our chapter in 1927! Talking to these women and watching them interact with one another, watching everyone during the ceremony, it helped me realize that there was so much more to Delta Zeta than I had been getting from it. I still don't know exactly how it happened, but I grew up that day and from then on, I resolved to be the best pledge/sister I could be, and to always be a credit to my sorority. Luckily, my pledge sisters also took the opportunity to shape up, too! Most of us eventually held Executive Board or Panhel positions.

The only thing I still regret, is what an utter witch I was during rush. When I became active with Panhel, and even in my classes and on the newspaper staff I had the opportunity to actually get to know some of the girls I had shunned during rush. And know what? They were nice girls. Really, really nice, some of them. Either they didn't remember me from rush or they were too classy to say "hey you stuck up freak, don't even THINK of talking to me NOW". Either way, that was a large dose of humility for me.

I wouldn't recommend that anyone go through rush with the attitude I did. First of all, I acted like a horse's behind and second of all, I could very easily have landed myself in a house that was all show and no true sisterhood. I was very, very,
very, lucky that the house I thought I wanted ended up being where I truly belonged. I mean, it's been 15 years since I initiated and I am as devoted to my sorority as I've ever been. So I guess things worked out in spite of myself!

So, that's my rush story, ugly but true!

Tracy, you are so awesome!!! You weren't a rushee from hell, you were a very normal girl who knew what she was looking for!! I think if everyone is honest, at least from the outset, they would want to be part of the group with the prettiest, coolest girls rather than the nerdy-but-sweet crowd. You have nothing to be ashamed of!!!! I was exactly the same way. Being a local gal myself, I did a little "recon" too ahead of time and I was told that all the pretty girls with money were Chi Os, Delta Gammas or Alpha Phis. Bingo!!!!! That's all I needed to hear. Wasn't even interested in the others. I was exactly like you were 1st party. I remember standing in this BEAUTIFUL new house, surrounded by 3 or 4 members who were eagerly rushing me. They were so nice and sweet and genuine, and all the while I was thinking to myself what a waste of time it was because I was dropping them first!!! I guess I felt a little guilty at the time but did it stop me? Noooooo way. And after second party I guiltlessly dropped the next group up on the food chain. I realize that not everyone is put in the position of getting to do the dropping, and not everyone gets to go back to all their top-choice houses, but still. The reality is, you want to have friends and fun and sisterhood, but that is pretty much available at any house. Most girls want to be part of a chapter with the best possible image too. Human nature!!!!!

I figured I'd share my rush story too. I was pretty nervous at the time but now that I look back it was alot of fun! I went through informal in the fall but it was really structured and I went to every house just to see what they were all about so it was pretty much like formal for me :) We have:
AGD
Alpha Phi
AST
GPhiB
DZ
ZTA

There were 1 or 2 parties a night so I'll just say what I thought of each house in the 1st round.
AGD- really nice friendly girls. I already knew a few from freshman year and high school so the conversations went well but I couldn't really see myself there.
APhi- felt sooo comfortable there. The girls were so easy to talk to and so funny. I immediately connected with the girl who rushed me and we had a great conversations.
AST- it just seemed akward here for me. The girls were nice but there were alot of pauses and instead of talking the whole time we played a game so I didn't really feel like I got to know alot of the sisters.
GPhiB- I LOVED it here! The girls were really laid back and easy to talk to...just like me. The girl who rushed me was really sweet and they had a cute skit.
DZ- REALLY cute friendly girls. They were nice but I knew this wasn't the house for me...I just didn't feel it the way I did at APhi or GPhiB
ZTA- pretty much the same as DZ

So after the 1st round my favs were APhi, GPhiB and AGD. I went back to all three of those and AST because they invited me back and I figured I'd give it a second chance. Second round at Aphi and GPhiB went even better than the 1st and now I was REALLy confused about where to go. I got cut by AGD and cut AST so I had those 2 prefs to go to.
I had GPhiB pref 1st and it really was beautiful...flowers, candles, songs...I knew it would be a hard decision. Then I went to Alpha Phi. I just felt so comfortable with the girls! They had a senior give a speech about what the sorority meant to her and I felt myself getting teary. I knew I wanted to call these girls my sisters.
I put Alpha Phi 1st on my bid card and I couldn't be happier with my choice! :D

Any more stories????
 

I absolutely love reading these rush stories! Is there any one else who wants to share? I guess this would count as my guilty pleaure
;)

-Ryan

WARNING:Long rush story ahead!
I decided to rush as a freshman, because I didn't really know anyone at my school. The day I moved into my dorm, I had orientation for rush. I went to the meeting, and got split up into my Rho Chi group. At my school, we have:
ADPi
AOPi
ChiO
Tri Delt
DG
KD
SDT
The only sorority I really knew about was Tri Delt, because a good friend in high school had an older sister who was a Tri Delt. I had gotten an issue of the Polis, which is the greek directory, and has a little fact sheet on all of the frats and sororities. I remember judging them by the superficial things, like the open mottos and the pictures of some of the sisters. But, I pretty much had an open mind. I ended up meeting up with a girl I had met during orientation, and she was an ADPi legacy. She was also trying to keep an open mind, but she kind of let on that legacy's usually get in, and she had 2 of her real sisters in that chapter. The first day of rush we went to every party, and that day was pretty much a blur to me. By the end of the day I had some opinions, I liked Tri Delt, SDT, and ADPi a lot. I knew a girl from my hometown in DG, so that was kind of a plus, but I didn't really have a strong opinion on the rest. The second day of rush was philanthropy day, and the sororities were also allowed to have drinks other than ice waters. I had really great conversations with girls in ADPi, SDT, AOPi, but not so much in the others. We had to rank that night, and then the next day we were getting invited back. I was a nervous wreck, and remembered wanting ADPi and SDT so bad. The maximum number of parties you could get invited back to was 4, I'm pretty sure, I got invited back to 4, ADPi, AOPi, KD and ChiO. That day and the day after were video days. We don't do skits, just videos. I remember having the best conversations in AOPi and KD. I loved ADPi's video, and I had a great conversation in there as well. In KD's party, I talked to 2 awesome girls, I met the Vice President of the student body at the time, who was a sister, the video was cool, and I had the best time. I didn't feel like I belonged at ChiO's party though. I had went to KD's party right before, and after I left that, I knew where I wanted to be. We ranked again, and then the next day were invited back to up to 2 prefs. I was invited back to KD and AOPi. I had some great conversations during the week with AOpi's, but at their prefs, I didn't feel very comfortable, and remember feeling like I didn't fit in with the majority of sisters. When I went to KD's prefs, I sat with the same 2 girls that had rushed me video day, they are best friends and roomates, so I got to see some of the best parts of sisterhood. The ceremony was so beautiful, I was kind of tearing up, even though I didn't know the girls! We came back from prefs to rank one last time, and I was so nervous. I wanted to suicide KD, because I knew that I would not sign any other bid. But I didn't want to get dropped from the computer system, so I ranked KD first, then AOpi, then you had to rank a third, so I put ADPi. That night, my rho chi group went out to dinner, and I remember talking to one of my rho chis, asking her what I would do if I didn't get KD. She just told me all this stuff about sometimes, you don't get your first choice, and you'll find a home wherever you go...all I could think about was wanting KD. The next morning, we got our bids, and our rho chis would call us out one at a time, and give us our envelopes. One girl went out, and came in with a pretty large envelope, and it was from AOPi, then a few girls later, one came in with a little envelope, and she got KD. So, I knew what envelope I wanted! I was one of the last ones they called out, and I went into the hall, and my rho chi asked the other if she had an envelope for me. She shuffled through the remaining envelopes, and she handed me a.....small envelope! I ripped it open, and saw the green writing and the Kappa Delta crest...I went crazy, hugged both my rho chis and went in the room yelling and hugging the 2 girls in my rho chi group that also got KD (one of whom is my very best friend ). I was thrilled, I am so fortunate to have gotten my first choice, even though I wasn't sure about it until the third day of rush!

That is lovely! I cannot get enough KD stories!

I wish I had such an eventful story, but I was part of a colony and although I was dead set on KD we never had that much worry...except when we had to vote between 2 NPC groups and then take that to Panhellenic and hope they felt the same!

AOT