Why DID you make it into a sorority?
 

I don't see how anyone could be offended by this post. I think it's great for PNMs to see what different chapters are looking for in a sister and why. Obviously you have what your chapter was looking for so you have first hand experience.

That being said I believe my chapter wanted me because I represent Kappa Delta's Five True Colors, Scholarship, Leadership, Sisterhood, Social, and Service. I'm an honor student, volunteer, campus leader, and love going out with my friends. I'm also very down to earth and laid back and balance out some of the more dramatic, high strung girls in the house (especially some of the girls in my pledge class.....love you, ladies!:) )

Well, that's it....have a great day, friends!

I too think this is a great thread... The reason I believe I received a bid from Alpha Delta Pi: Involved in leadership positions in high school, honor student, looked forward to intermurals (my chapter has always been a fan of playing, even if we didn't win much), very layed back... also I believe that the fact that I was looking for a place to feel comfortable made a difference, and they saw quickly that I was able to... i did not go through formal recruitment, so it was the fact that I was able to hang out with the sorority and be me...

i believe i made into ADPi because the girls saw what i had to offer. i was so comfortable with them and they liked being around me. i was a perfect fit into their chapter.:D *tooting my horn*
i am so thankful that the girls looked at me and saw a sister.

I believe I made it into ADPi because coming in, I had a high GPA, lots of involvement and leadership background in both high school and college, and I knew a few of the sisters. While I was there, I acted like myself, and I made sure to tell the sisters how much I liked ADPi and how happy I was there. I think I presented myself as a well-rounded person and I got along very well with every woman I met. In fact, I am still very close with all the girls who rushed me, years later!

Above all, I think I got into my sorority because I clicked well with the women who became my sisters.

I think I got into Phi Gam because I was (and still am!) a big ball of energy packed inside a small body. I believe the president at the time (who is now my roommate!) and many of the sisters saw "Hey, she's cool, she's fun, and she's got spunk! We've got to have her!"

I felt really comfortable with the sisters, even when talking about Kappa Phi (something I was afraid to do with other sororities on campus in fear that they would think I was already in a sorority). I think the sisters admired the fact that I was willing to do both sorority life and exec board of Kappa Phi and they admired my determination.

Also, I had a great (compared to now) GPA and was already involved in a life group as well as Kappa Phi so they knew I could juggle everything. :) I honestly remember just being myself around those women. I wasn't afraid or nervous, I just was.

What a great idea for a thread... :D

I think Delta Gamma chose me because I was extremely involved on campus... When I rushed as a sophomore, I had founded an improv group on campus and was the Artistic Director for a theatre company that produced 10 plays a year. I had plenty of honors and awards and things, but I really felt like Greek life was missing from my college experience.

Any sorority would want a woman with good grades, awards, and tons of campus involvement... it makes the sorority stronger to have people involved in other activities!

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Oh- I originally asked if anyone would be offended just b/c I know there are several women on this site who either went bidless, left rush, or just in general had a bad Greek Life experience. And I didn't want this thread to make them uncomfortable.

Because I was involved on campus (athlete, student government, College Dems, etc), had a high GPA, and was dating somebody prestige.

(The third was just icing on the cake, really, but it did help.)

I was very active in high school and had great leadership experience. I had a high GPA and a good resume. I didn't have the greatest recruitment experience but I think I was outgoing and easy enough to talk to and let enough of my personality shine through (a bit too much in one case?) for the girls to see who I really was.

In all honesty, though, I still think a big reason I made it into Kappa was because I was a legacy. How I got in doesn't make a whit of difference, though, it's what I did with my time in that matters to me, and I believe I spent it fairly well.

I originally rushed in my freshman year, but dropped out due to peer pressure...it was stupid at the time, but in the end, I was better off...I transferred schools my junior year and the population of the new school was 400% larger than the one I was leaving...I decided to rush again, feeling overwhelmed by the population difference...

This time, as a junior, I felt I had a better idea of who I was and what I was looking for in a sorority. I went through rush and when it came down to my Pref. night choices I went to both parties.

**PNM's I would NOT recommend what I'm about to say..especially if your campus has guaranteed bidding!!!***

When I returned to my Rho Chi to sign my Pref. card, I remember not wanting my 2nd choice at all and suicided my bid card...my Rho Chi advised me against this, but I only wanted my 1st choice or nothing...

I got my 1st choice! (Obviously ... LOL)

While in the house, I loved and hated my experience. I went alum early because of the reduction in units, but remained active with my sisters. There were A LOT of interpersonal problems and friction throughout my active years. We were continuously COB'ing and we couldn't fill our house (which only slept 7 sisters!). The house closed the year of my graduation (Oct. 1991)...

Since then, I've been advising another chapter off and on during the last 12 years. I've enjoyed working with upcoming generations of AXO's and seeing the changes in the NPC as a whole. I'm also currently the alumnae group president.

Someone once told me that being an active is only approximately 4 years (2-1/2 for me), but being an alum is for life!!! I'm definitely enjoying my status as a alumna so much more and realizing what "the bond" is all about...

This is a self congratulatory thread lol. Nothing wrong with that but kind of funny.

I believe the reason that I made it into AOII was because I was incredibly obvious about how much I loved it and that I was really active in high school with a good GPA. The first day I was there, I was decided that AOII was where I wanted to be. I didn't know how obvious I was being til after recruitment when the sisters told me that it was so obvious that they could give me anyone to talk to cause they knew I wanted AOII so bad! :D

You know what......

Honestly, I'm not sure why DG chose me. I rushed as a Freshman with an average HS GPA of 2.8 and the only activities I was involved in during HS was Band and a couple minor clubs. I played some league sports throughout my life, but nothing largely special.

As for now.....I'm sure DG chose me because they saw me as the type to become a leader and do great things throughout the time that I was there. But I'm really not sure if those things were apparent at the time I rushed.

*ADPiAkron might have input on why ADPi might have wanted me since I did pref there.....but who knows??* <----trying not to put her on the spot! :)

Just as any chapter does for pref-- we invite back women we can potentially see as a sister! So there is your answer-- kind of generic-- but I cannot give specifics as that seems like it was eons ago!

Generic is about all you can get when a women who comes through recruitment is a Freshman and you don't know much about her! ;) I still remember leaving your house that day crying my eyes out!

SHUT UP!! I left DG-- my other Pref-- crying my eyes out too!!

ETA: My answer to this question is the same as Hannahgirl's-- I even had the same GPA coming out of HS! I was involved in very little in HS-- cheerleader and intramural sports-- I also had some volunteer experience!! But in addition I had a rec for ADPi from a HS teacher! But I know for sure they did not see the leader in me that I came to be-- but I didn't see that coming either and I thank ADPi for making me into the person I am today!

Definately!!! I wouldn't be who I am right now if it wasn't for DG!!!

Actually, I didn't make it in during recruitment. I didn't recieve a final party bid from any sorority. So my rush was pretty much done then. I didn't do my preference signing with the rest of the girls, I did it in the greek life office about 3 days before. I didn't suicide, but signed the 6 sororities in order of preference. The Greek life adviser told me that I probably wouldn't match up and that I was done. So after the rest of the girls did their preferences (on a sunday) they called everyone who didn't match up. I got a phone call saying I didn't match up. So I figured I was done. The next day my roommate told me that someone from Student Affairs left me a voicemail. So I checked my voicemail and it was the Greek Life Adviser, telling me that I had been offered a bid to Tau Delta, my no.1 choice! So I kinda ended up being the "dark horse". I was a little upset about it at first...but it all worked out for the best. I just wish the Rho Chi's had told us that that could happen, that we could not be asked back to anything or not be asked to pledge...that was never stated anywhere on rush materials.

I'm not really sure why I was. I am kind of a misfit in the group. I still love my GLO but I am so not the atypical sorority girl. I kinda don't fit in & in some ways I do. Is that weird?

I was warm and friendly with the girls. I didn't tell them how wasted I get every weekend, or talk politics, or tell them I was desperate for a bid from ANYONE so I could wear letters.

I met their GPA requirement.

I asked questions and acted interested. I asked how they liked the philanthropy (Children's Miracle Network) and about their mixers with the other fraternities. I asked how involved they were on campus, and if their girls were diverse (pretty much any sorority will use that as a springboard to explain how great their chapter is, how they have a lot of races/socioeconomic backgrounds/college majors represented.) I gave them the chance to talk up the sorority, and took opportunities to talk myself up too. When I talked about myself I used specific examples, and then changed the subject, so I didn't seem too self-absorbed. (i.e. them: "So, what were you into in high school? Were you in any clubs?" me: "Yeah, I was captain of the soccer team the year we made it to state. Do you guys have any intermural sports teams?"

Other than that, I dunno -- I think if I'd rushed me, I would've cut me! I didn't have any outstanding traits, not a particuarly spectacular GPA, not a legacy. I was the recruitment director's rush crush, though, so maybe that was part of it.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "rush crush?"

A "rush crush" is when an active member "falls in love" with a PNM during rush and desperately wants that PNM in the house....

It's basically when you're so taken with a PNM you "just have to have her in the house!!!"

Same deal - I was the rush crush of one of the more influential seniors. It helped that I had seen her hanging on a rugby player who was up on the bar mooning everyone at some seashore dive Labor Day weekend, and had told her that as far as I was concerned, the whole thing had never happened and Mr Rugby seemed like a very nice guy.

Also there was a lot of criticism because I had dated someone with a terrible reputation, and she had dated the same guy the previous summer. She reminded everyone that if they cut all the girls Playerboy had ever gone out with, they might as well forget making quota.

[I lead a nice, quiet boring life now, but needless to say, college was something of a soap opera.....]

I don't think I could pin point why I made it into ADPi (maybe one of my chapter sisters could help out on that one)....but I'd like to think they saw the leadership potential in me that I didn't realize until I signed my bid card and became part of the First and Finest!

I don't think I was anyone's rush crush, but I do know the FRC told me that she saw me on that first day of FR and KNEW that I'd be a sister at the end of the week! :)

I think the reason my Sorors wanted me was because of my passion. That's what kept coming up.

[Bumping for the happy factor :)

I agree. I know the "whys" I was bid, but I'd be embarrassed to post them!

I was a body builder with a genius IQ, which was thought to be compensation enough for my small sexual organ.

Also, I was group leader and the only male in a Sexual Addiction Recovery Group (Bikini Nymphos) that coincidentally was populated only by models. That was considered a perk for the chapter.

I think there may have been some other reasons also . . .