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All Around The World Rush
Okay, this is going to be a live recruitment thread, but I'd like to keep the school secret. If you know the school (I'm sure it's easy to guess), please keep quiet.
A few things about me… No recs. (at a school where recs. are pretty important) and my GPA is 3.33. I'm not sure whether that is a decent GPA in comparison to other rushes, but there you go. Recruitment has started. Being from a non-greek family, I was very excited/nervous about what to expect. There are 13 sororities. I will code them after countries. Kenya Australia Egypt United Kingdom Thailand Russia Spain France Argentina Canada Brazil Greece Italy The first day I visited France, Thailand, Spain, Brazil and Egypt. Brazil This house was so pretty and I was overwhelmed by how cute all of the girls were. I only spoke to one girl at this house, who I felt I had a connection with. We spoke about traveling and sisterhood and I was amazed that half an hour went by so quickly. This good bye felt really sincere and she said she was so excited about meeting me. I really loved this house, but was aware it was considered one of the top houses. France Next stop was France. Again, this was one of the prettiest houses. I only spoke to one girl again and got on really well with her. She said to me 'I saw you and was so glad I got a pretty one. It's awkward when they're not'. Which I thought was a bit of an odd comment. But never the less, she was so nice and sweet and I definitely had the most fun talking to her. When we left she said she was so glad she had got to speak to me and wished me luck in recruitment. I felt that 'wishing me luck' meant that she enjoyed speaking to me, but knew that her chapter weren't going to be inviting me back. I felt even more sure of this when I found out that a couple of the other girls had been bumped at least once. Surely if they were interested they'd have bumped me too so that they could get enough of an opinion? Spain I remember really liking their songs and they ended the last one in a way which made everyone laugh. I was bumped twice here. I had great conversations with the first two girls, but it's a bit blurry. I remember enjoying speaking to them lots. With the third girl it felt a bit awkward. But I had a very positive feeling about this house. Egypt The main thing I remember about this house is how impossible it was to hear everyone. I only spoke to one girl and wasn't overly keen on her. She just didn't stop talking and kept repeating the same things. I think she was very nervous, but it came across as a bit full-on. This was definitely the house I liked the least out of the ones I saw today. I was willing to give them a chance, as I only spoke to one girl and it we really the noise issues which had put me off the most. Thailand When entering this house we had to shake hands with about 5 different people in a row, which was a bit awkward as we'd always be ready to shake their hand before they were. I really loved this house and felt a connection to all three girls that I spoke to. I liked their songs the most, as the girls seemed to be enjoying it so much and it really felt like such a family. They seemed to have a high focus on philanthropy and it we really nice. One of the girls opened up about why she has a personal reason to feel so connected to their philanthropy and whilst I didn't say, I also had a very similar reason and it made me really warm to this chapter. If I had to rank the 5 I'd seen so far, it would be Brazil, Thailand, France, Spain, Egypt. |
Good luck with recruitment!
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Wow, France's comment is really...weird. Don't get too put off by your active being awkward at Egypt...she could've been really nervous.
You sound like you have a good attitude and open mind, which is great! Good luck with recruitment! |
I have now seen all of the houses and chosen my top 10 and ranked my bottom three.
Australia Okay right, I really did not like this chapter. There weren't enough girls for us each to speak to one, so each girl had two pnms. I had nothing in common with the girl that was speaking to us and it was the longest 25 minutes ever. It was just so boring for me, but the girl didn't seem to realise this. Their song was pretty lame as well. England Everyone was rolling their eyes before entering this house, but I actually spoke to two really sweet girls. It seemed completely natural and I liked them. It wasn't my favourite by a long measure, but I enjoyed my conversation here. Italy I spoke to a lot of girls here and just really didn't have anything in common with them. Again there were't enough girls for the pnms, so we were paired off. One of the girls told me the reason she joined this chapter was because they didn't really wear make up and they don't have many socials with boys. I thought this was such an odd thing to say. especially as both of the girls she was speaking to were wearing make-up.I knew that I didn't like this chapter much. Argentina This house had really cute outfits and all of the girls seemed so different and not carbon-copies of each other. I had a great conversation with the girl I was speaking to. The girls that were sat speaking to next to us had an issue involving a glass of water spilling all over the pnms white skirt and I noticed and got distracted, whilst the girl I was speaking to didn't notice… So I hope she didn't think I was rude. I really liked this house. Russia OMGGGGG I loved this house. I spoke to 3 girls and got on so well with all of them. It's really pathetic but I've always liked their colours, symbol and flower before as well. I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. I told one of the girls a story about what i did last summer and when we were walking out she was like 'omg, I'm so excited to tell everyone about you'. This house is beautiful as well and I came out definitely knowing this was my favourite. Kenya I had a nice conversation with this girl. It's a bit hazy now. I remember we both played lacrosse, so we spoke about that.I definitely liked this house, but on reflection, in comparison to the other houses it wasn't definitely more of an average… nothing bad, nothing outstanding. Canada I loooooved this house. I spoke to some great girls, who I had lots in common with. One of the girls said she was so happy I was at the university and going through recruitment.This was definitely one of my top 3. Greece I was expecting to hate this house, but was surprised. It is one of the smaller houses, so two pnms to one girl. But unlike the other houses where this had happened it worked well. The girl was great and the conversation went well until the end. The girl started to sound very desperate and said something along the lines of 'It is your decision and you have to go with your heart, but 'Greece' would be a great home for you both'. then she hugged us, which was really awkward. Sooooo at the end of the day I had to pick my bottom 3 and rank them. My bottom 3 were Greece, Italy and Australia. I ranked Greece the best out of these 3 and Australia the worst. We can get invited back to a max of 10 tomoz. I'm not really expecting any invites at all, but we'll see what happens. Just for reference, if I was to rank my top 3 now it would be Russia, canada and Brazil. |
I have no idea where you are going through recruitment, but wow. You have gotten some really weird, off the wall comments from members. :eek:
Keep positive! Hopefully you will return to some houses and continue on with the process. :) |
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Can't wait to hear more updates! |
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DaisyMJ - random question. If the chapters that had to rush 2 PNMs to one active would have been a little smoother doing it, do you think it would have bothered you as much, or was it the concept of the chapter being smaller in general that turned you off, more than what the girls said/did? |
I can see where double-rushing can be awkward. Especially if the other PNM dominates the conversation or has more in common with the sorority member than you do. Unless the active has done it before, one PNM can easily end up feeling like the "odd girl out." This in turn kind of turns her off to the chapter a little.
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Hmmm, it wasn't that they were smaller that was the problem. It was just done really badly.
Okay, so this morning I got back my schedule. I could go to a max of 10, but was seriously expecting to be released completely. I wasn't and my schedule read: Australia, Italy, Egypt, Greece and Canada. I got back my lowest 3, but was so happy to get Canada, as it had been one of my favorites. I wasn't really happy, but overall considering everything it was the best I could hope for. As I was obviously sitting around a bit today, I had a chance to speak to lots of other girls and it sounded as though there had been heavy cuts. I met so many girls that only had 2 or 3 chapters left and lot of these had decent GPAs of around 3.5. A few legacies were cut and quite a few girls dropped out all together. A lot of people had been cut from Canada. My room mate was invited back everywhere, but Canada and she's like the perfect pnm. So for Canada to have invited me back despite the lack of recs and being a transfer Junior that knew no-one in any of the houses was quite a compliment. Australia I really hadn't liked this house last time, but I definitely preferred it this time. The philanthropy craft thing was really lame though. I just can't see myself living here. The girls I spoke to just weren't interested in any of the same things as me, so it was a bit weird. Greece Everyone was moaning about being invited back here and planning ways to cut by them. I definitely felt even worse about it than I had done the day before. It wasn't nearly as bad as people were making out. I can't even remember what we did for the craft here. I also did something stupid here and mentioned drinking when asked what I do for fun. Oops. Italy I spoke to a really nice girl here, but like Australia I really can't see myself in this chapter. After this chapter, I pretty much decided that if I only got invited back to these first three tomorrow then I'd drop out. I know that that isn't what you're supposed to do, I just know that these 3 groups aren't me and I'd be much happier an an indp rather than wasting time with girls I have nothing in common with. I know it all works because it's mutual selection, but I know there are reasons why I wasn't invited back to my favorite houses.... and was warned about this by a recruitment adviser before even starting the process. Egypt I hadn't had a great time at this house the first time round, but had been willing to give it another shot as the girl I spoke to had seemed nervous. It went much better this time. I had great conversations with the two girls I spoke to and their craft was really cute. I really want to be invited back to this chapter and I've completely changed my opinion of it. Canada This was my last house of the day and I was sooo excited about coming here after waiting for so long all day. I was paired with someone that does the some major as me and had been traveling to a lot of the same places as me. I spoke to two girls at the same time here and it was a bit awkward as they both sat either side of me. I guess they had cut so heavily there were more than enough members to pnms and there were lots just stood around smiling. I didn't have such a connection with these two girls as I had had with the ones the day before. But this is one of the top houses and I had enjoyed it so much the day before. I just very much doubt I'll get invited back tomorrow. I could have easily been cut on my age, gpa and a number of other things... I'm kind of an easy cut. But they cut girls with much higher gpas, recs that were able to fulfill the housing commitments. So for them not to have cut me, must have meant something in the conversations shone out. I just don't feel that happened today at all. Anyway, I guess we'll see tomorrow. |
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I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of the story, I hope you find your home!
How odd that you have gotten so many strange comments! I am wondering...are you British? Not because of the strange comments, just because of some of your spellings/phrases. |
DaisyMJ,
I've been thinking about you and hope you are doing ok! Please let us know how things are going! :) |
Hey, I ended up dropping out on pref day. I went to all 5 houses I had left on skit day and absolutely fell in love with Canada. On pref day I was invited back to three houses, but Canada had cut me. I still had Egypt left, but just could not see myself fitting in here and I'd never liked the other two houses (Australia and Greece) and had tried to drop them from day 1. I'm a bit disappointed and maybe I'll end up regretting dropping out when I still had Egypt left.
Like I hinted at earlier and like some of you guessed, I am in fact British. I'm here as an exchange student for a year. I was warned before recruitment began that there would be a strong chance I would be dropped by everyone after day 1, due to only being around for a year and recruitment is pretty competitive here... A lot of girls on my floor were cut by everyone/dropped out. I think one of the problems is that there are 3 houses were are seen to be a lot worse than the others. If girls have high gpas they get invited back to their top 10 on first invite and drop those bottom 3 houses. Then the next day a lot of them get cut completely and have no houses left. Reputation matters here quite a bit. A lot of girls have their hearts set on Canada or Brazil and get very upset and drop out when they get cut from those houses. I hadn't even heard any reputations and don't have the pressure of being a legacy/coming from a high school where you know from a young age which houses you must join or not go greek at all, but it was very obvious just from visiting the houses. I'm glad that I got to experience this crazy side of American culture college and I had fun doing it. I went in to recruitment not expecting a bid, so to have been invited back to my favourite house up until pref was a compliment. Maybe I should have continued to bid day, but it would have been a lot of money for something I really wasn't sure about. |
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