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Don't worry about recruitment for now. Just enjoy spending time with your new friends in the sororities.

At recruitment next fall, your grades and activities, as well as your social reputation, will speak volumes for you. Keep your GPA up and get involved with a community or campus activity or two this year. Also, don't embarrass yourself socially at parties or at night spots off campus. This goes double for the way you behave around members of the opposite sex. Your reputation precedes you when you are an upperclassman.

When you go through recruitment, go in with an open mind to all of the chapters at your school. Just because Susie joined House A and Jenny joined House B doesn't mean you will receive a bid to either one. No matter what anyone tells you. And/Or, once you get to recruitment, you may find you really like House C, a chapter you knew nothing about before.

Enjoy your time with your new friends, and take it as that-- friendship. If you're always talking about recruitment with them or announcing your daydreams of being their sorority sister, they're going to see you as having an ulterior motive. By hanging out with them, you're not a "pseudo-sister" or an "almost sister"-- you're just friends with a group of girls who happen to belong to a club on campus. Be normal, be natural, don't be a weirdo stalker. If anyone brings up, "Are you rushing?" "Wouldn't it be so great if you joined ABC?" it is certainly ok to let them know you are going through recruitment next year and you love the ABC's. Just don't linger over it needlessly.

Good luck and have fun this year!