My Fall Recruitment Thread
 

Hey guys. I just signed my pref card, and wow what a rush this whole experience has been (pun partly intended). I can't wait to tell you guys my whole story. There are a lot of ups and downs and changing of opinions, but I'll be honest, there were times when I was happy, sad, excited, disappointed, catty, regretful, SHALLOW, and then true to myself. I have to run right now, but I'll update and tell how it all goes. Bid day is tomorrow, and of course I'll include that after. Cya!

andddd I just wrote the entire first day and it got erased

Ok, so here goes. I am going to be completely honest, so if you don't like it, too bad!

I'm a junior transfer and there are 4 NPC sororities. Going into rush, I had a preference towards two of them (Mascara and Lipgloss). They were the more desirable sororities. I am very attractive so I thought I belonged to these. The other two were Blush and Eyeliner. I met my rho gammas (I had 2) and I fell in LOVE with them. I really liked my rho gamma group as well. On day 1, you visit all 4. On day two you visit all 4 again, then vote for your top 3. On day 3, you can attend a max of 3, and then on preference you can attend a max of 2. Then bid day is tomorrow! Here is my day 1:

Blush-I really liked this group! They were easy to talk to.

Lipgloss-This was my favorite going in, based on some girls I had met before recruitment. The first girl I talked to I didn't immediately click with, but the second was great! This was definitely my top choice so far.

Eyeliner-I was apprehensive about going to this group. My roommate had rushed freshman year, only attended Eyeliner's pref, but did not sign a bid card. She rushed the next year and was released from recruitment all together. Anyway, I felt so so about this group. They were my least favorite. I genuinely didn't really click with the girls.

Mascara-I was excited to go to mascara. I had fun talking to these girls and really like them. I want to go back here definitely!

After night 1, my personal rankings were (we didn't vote until after night 2)

Lipgloss
Blush
Mascara
Eyeliner

Night 2:

Mascara-I loved mascara tonight. I probably had the best conversation in all of rush with a mascara girl tonight. Mascara jumped to the top of my list.

Eyeliner-Eyeliner was better tonight. It was always very easy to talk to them. I felt like I didn't have to pretend at all.

Lipgloss-I didn't adore lipgloss as much tonight as I had before, but I was still very interested in them. The conversations tonight just hadn't been amazing.

Blush-Blush tonight was not great. After they sang the opening song, and came to pick people up, my friend and I had nobody and were standing around waiting. Finally a girl picked us up. Then when everyone went to get a seat, there weren't any for us. The sorority girl with us had to go ask her sister to stand so we could sit when we were blatantly standing right near her! The conversations continued to be good with this group though. I was annoyed about the night's occurrences in blush though.

We voted for three tonight. I chose Mascara, Lip Gloss, and Blush. Stay tuned!

Good luck!

Day 3:

Our first set of invites! I was pretty nervous. Here was my schedule!

Eyeliner
Mascara
Blush

I was really, REALLY disappointed about lipgloss, but figured since I still had mascara, everything was all good.

Eyeliner-At this party, there was one girl, with 5 pnm's, and she just talked at us the entire time. ??? I don't think I was asked one question.

Mascara-Didn't go great today. The active seemed only interested in talking to the other pnm with us. When another girl came around it was someone I had already met before, so again she focused on the other girl. When I looked around, some people were having one on one conversations so I was a bit sad. I don't think I will get invited back here, and I'm really sad because of how great yesterday was.

Blush-Since it was philanthropy day, most of the sororities had a little craft and then we just went back to mingling and socializing. At Blush, the entire day was about the philanthropy. That was nice, but I didn't feel as if I got to know the Blush girls as well.

When I voted that night, I voted for Blush and Mascara. I hoped hoped HOPED I got Mascara, but wasn't feeling great about it. More later!

Holy moly! Either that chapter is very very small, or there are a LOT of pnms at you're school. Which is it?

Lol! It was just how it worked out. Many of the girls during this party were one on one. It wasn't the fault of either the chapter or the school. Besides, wait to see how the rest of the story turns out!

Edit: I believe that chapter has around 60 girls, and there were 250 going through recruitment. The largest chapter on this campus is 90 I believe.

Pref was today, and a complete whirlwind. I've never been more confused, upset, and happy, all at once. I will let you know where I went later!

Aww yea pref will do that to you lol...cant wait to see where you ended up!

For pref, I was invited to Blush and Eyeliner. I was very sad about mascara. I couldn't help being catty. I almost wished the groups had recruited on looks alone. I didn't click with the girls that I wanted to like me. I am still sad and I will probably always wonder what it is like to be a mascara or lipgloss but I will go on. I read an example on here about, if you don't get your choice to your first choice college, are you not going to go to college at all? That helped me a lot, although I do distinguish that at your safety school, people are not going to be around a lot wearing an Ivy sweatshirt you got rejected from, whereas the other sorority shirts are commonly seen. It's harder to forget. I did go to the prefs and gave the two other groups a chance, but I think being disappointed by being cut by your favorites is completely normal and should not elicit rude responses (which I have sometimes seen on GC). If a girl decides not to pursue Greek Life rather than her second choice, and you wish to condemn her, don't. She is missing out already.

Anyway, I had Blush pref first.

Blush-Everything was set up very pretty. Candles, pretty deserts, etc etc. I loved the card where the girls wrote you little notes, but the girl preffing me was really not someone I had connected with as much. The Blush girls talked about how much Blush meant to them and I could really see how proud they were of their sorority. When I left, I thought the ceremony was nice and was confused about the insane emotional responses people say they get from pref.

Eyeliner-I was still very upset about mascara (and lipgloss) and honestly it showed. I was pretty overwhelmed and the Eyeliner girl who was preffing me could tell. She waited while I was in the bathroom drying my eyes. So we sat down again and continued talking. It was much more casual and laid back then blush. No candles, no dimmed lights. I really felt ok at Eyeliner. It seemed these girls already liked me so much and I didn't have to pretend at all. I felt very comfortable and loved the two girls talking to me. (Unfortunately they were seniors). When I left, I felt like I just knew.

I was the last one to sign my pref card it took me forever to decide. When I was at blush, I had looked around at my potential pledge class, and loved 99% of them. I knew one girl at eyeliner's pref. I didn't feel a connection with the blush actives like I did with eyeliner's. I loved blush's philanthropy, and wasn't as jazzed about eyeliner's. (This is really bad, but hey I thought about): I absolutely loved one of my rho gammas, and I knew she was an eyeliner. Blush seemed to be more well-rounded in all. I was pretty torn. I finally just went with my gut and put them both down (as 1 and 2).

So you put blush as #1 and Eyeliner as #2?

lol i didn't say the order i put them in. i'll write more later. i just got back from bid day festivities

Woo hoo! Get some sleep, do your homework, and come back so we can congratulate you!