My Live Fall 09 Recruitment Story
 

I had decided well into my junior year of high school that I planned on rushing a sorority once I had started college. Well, last year due to some personal issues I had been unable to go through formal recruitment and also missed out on all the informal stuff. Although I knew it was going to be harder for me to get a bid, I was fairly certain my school isn’t that competitive and knew that as much as I wanted it I’d never be happy with myself unless I went through rush this fall.

My school has 8 chapters and in order to nickname them I randomly pulled makeup items from my makeup bag and am using the names of my favorite brands to code them. I loooove my makeup bag, so I had a wide selection of brands to pull out. Hahaha.

In alphabetical order by brand name (meaning no order with the actual chapters) we have:

Covergirl
OPI
Revlon
Rimmel
Tarte
TooFaced
Urban Decay
Wet N Wild

Since I’ve been at this school for a year, I already have formed some opinions of the different chapters on my campus. But, I know things aren’t always what they seem at first sight. So, although I have two or three that I’m really hoping for, I’m definitely keeping my mind open, hoping that the others can change my opinions of them.

Our events haven't started yet, but I just thought I'd get a head start on this thread because I love reading all the stories posted on here.

I can't wait until the events start though!

good luck to you. looking forward to reading about your experience.

A great attitude to go in with, particularly the part I bolded. Instead of being set in your opinions or perceptions of chapters, you appear open to forming new ones. All the best to you!

Good Luck. I hope it works out for you.

yaaaaaay for the makeup theme, and double triple yaaaaaaaay for keeping an open mind. You are going to have a blast!!

Best of luck to you..cute names!

Good luck

Good luck. Yay for Sephora <333

Thank you all for all the good luck messages!

Omg these code names are so cute! I LOVE makeup. lol.
Good Luck at recruitment!!!!

What, no MAC? :)

Haha. No, unfortunately none of my MAC products ended up getting pulled out of my massive makeup bag.

Just got back from my informational. I definitely felt a little out of place being one of the few sophomores rushing. But, I quickly started talking to a few girls next to me while we waited for everyone to come in. Apparently the two freshman girls I started talking to were way into TooFaced and Wet N Wild. They had a friend from a nearby college who was in TooFaced and had also wanted Wet N Wild and assumed because she was for them that all chapters were the same and they would be good for them too. And what’s worse is that they kept messing up the names of these chapters. Which I understand how it can be confusing but they seriously believed they were experts. They wouldn’t hear any of my attempts of telling them to keep an open mind. They were dead set that TooFaced was the best chapter on campus.

In reality I wanted to disagree with them. Neither chapter is that great in my eyes. I was always set off by how… shallow a lot of the TooFaced girls seemed in classes that I had with a group of them. And Wet N Wild is pretty much all parties (well at least that was the reason why a hall mate of mine said she joined them last year). Which yeah might be great for these girls, but I had my eye on some of the more well rounded chapters on campus. Namely Covergirl and Revlon. But, I didn’t want to correct them (Which yeah I know what right for me won’t be right for them. But I just felt really compelled to say my views were right. Thank goodness I didn’t.) and join in on their tent talk. So, I focused on talking to one who was in my computer class about an upcoming assignment until the presentation started.

As it ends up most of my Gamma Chi group seem to be fellow sophomores and a lot of transfer students. So, I was relieved that I wasn’t one of three upperclassmen, I was one of twenty. So, my chances of getting into any sorority seemed a bit better. I haven’t really gotten a chance to really meet the girls in my Gamma Chi group since everything was really fast paced. But, I plan on arriving to check in a little early before the first rounds of parties to actually talk to some of them.

Ha ha....it seems like so far the random makeup names are meshing quite nicely with your impressions of the groups. If you get rushed by a British girl at Rimmel I will LOL. ;)

Haha. Yeah I didn't even think about it for TooFaced but I did laugh when I pull Wet N Wild for that chapter.

Oh I hope not or else I'll feel as if whatever comes up in this thread is like dictating fate. LMAO.