How long did the AI Process take you?
 

Because of Blue Angels idea I will start this one up.

My process was definately an exception to the rule. From initial contact with one of my sponsers to initiation was approximately 10 months.

September to March for me; less than 7 months.

For All New AI Posters, a lot depends on many things about how long it takes!

There have Been Many Who take a long time and some who take less!

It is and can be a very long time as an AI.

Never give up hope.

Alums take longer as Alums also have many other things to do.


There have been many AIs on GC and They will agree that it is a Much Hadder Process than just going though Collegiate Process!

Hope Is Eternal!

15 months from the time I started the process (contacting GLOs) until initiation.

since I haven't been initiated yet, I guess some would consider it on going...but I did have my pleding ceremony in Oct 05.

I inquired back in 1998, but stopped the process and started up in 11/03....

But with Tri Sigma it started (again) in 11/04....

Since I don't have a date and I really don't think it will happen (initiation) until late 2006 or sometime in 2007....

Don't worry, I can still volunteer and do some things on the national & local level, which I have already done

Edited to add: The main reason it is taking me so long to get initiated is that there is no collegiate chapter near my area and we are waiting, because a National Officer must be present to confer the degree....I can wait as long as it takes....

Re: How long did the AI Process take you?
 

But the norm for the ones our chapter has done..... :D

(but that may be due to the chapter too.....:D )

My process took 3 years-from meeting the girls to Initiation-but well worth the wait!! :D

For those who didn't read the other thread, I'll give you the Reader's Digest version.

Technically, it took more than 20 years *since I was a ZTA pledge in college.)

It was nearly three years from the time I wrote a letter to volunteer to help out the alumnae chapter (and having no idea there even WAS such a thing as AI) to my initiation. Zeta was the only GLO I pursued.

Midwesterngirl, which sorority are you a member of?

Mine is DEFINITELY an exception to the rule:

Initial contact with IHQ in late December (right after Christmas)
Initial contact with alumnae chapter in early to mid-January
Pledging ceremony in early February
Initiation on March 20th - and became an advisor a few weeks later!

Sarah

When you post with the time it took you to be initiated, could everyone please name which GLO is was with?

Thanks

(edited because I can't spell !)

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for posting this information. I'm going through the alumna initiation process now and I was really worried because it's been a few months. This thread will definitely help me stay positive and focused!

Overall the process lasted about 2.5 years. It's funny because I think if the current women who are in charge of the process for Tri Delta would have been the women who were in charge when I first inquired it think I would have had the quickest process on record, lasting about 2 months.

It took me nearly five years. Lots of starts and stops due to changes going on in my life and with some changes in officers responsible for AI within Tri Delta.

2 years, six months and counting....

(but I'm "on hold" at the moment)

From first contact to invitation to membership: approximately 30 days.
From invitation to membership to initiation: 2 months.

Delta Gamma:
Made contact in October
Initiated in March
(Mine would be an exception though, as I had various internal contacts assisting me)

For another DG that I know:
Hers took nearly 2 years, due to miscommunication, etc.
However, she is a DG today and that's all that matters, right?

While to some Posters who are asking about AI, it is not an easy process as many have said.

But, some GLOs are more accepting than others for many Reasons.

As I have always said, depending on the GLO, it can be a longer or shorter Process.

None will be easy.

I can say that Many on GC are and have been tying for some time and have never given up.

Those that attained Memebership are to Be Commended and it is well desearved.

Never Let Your Dream be wasted, just keep trying and hang in there.

Those that never want to attain will never make it!:)

Excellent advice, Tom.

I think the hardest part of the process for me was trying to show my interest without looking pushy. It can be difficult to know where to draw the line.

There were a number of times when I thought all was lost and was nearly ready to give up. But what I didn't know was that things can be held up behind the scenes that have nothing to do with you... particularly in the GLOs where AI is very rare.

Sometimes it's a matter of waiting for the once or twice a year General Counsel meeting to be voted on. Or maybe someone slipped up and didn't hand in all the paperwork or filled it out incorrectly. Or your local chapter could be waiting for the collegiates to have their next initiation.

It's good to have an advocate inside the organization so that they can oversee the process and make sure nothing slips between the cracks.

I'm an exception--it was less than a month. I called, told them I had been a member of colony that chartered, they sent me the form, I returned it and it was done. I was initiated on Valentines day by my chapter a two weeks later.

DPhiEs process is not as strenuous as other groups--although you do need to have a member sponsor you, so that may require getting to know someone if you do not already.

My experience was shorter than some others had been, but it seemed like it took AGES!! My first contact was in January of 2005 and I was initiated in November '05.

Being an AI has been a WONDEFUL experience and I am so glad that I found my home in Gamma Phi Beta. :)