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No more cuts this afternoon, and a very happy daughter! She attended Lilly and Iris last night. Here is the rundown--the few details I have:
Lilly-She was so happy to go back and very comfortable here. She has been interested in this sorority since visiting last year before enrolling. Turns out her "not sure of fit" reaction 1st night was more about really wanting to be asked back. She has a lot in common with the girls, felt "at home," and loves their philanthropy as well as this chapter's philanthropy activities that put the girls out in the community for service activities. Her host was someone she knows, and she thought it went well and was thrilled. Skeptical mom here thinks the host may have asked for her because she needed to be convinced she would be OK with her as a sister. I have reasons for thinking this, but we won't go into them here. Generally, I am pretty intuitive.
Iris-Her experience here was not great. I believe she went in with an open mind and wanting very much to find that things could click. Conversation was strained and she read some of it as "they almost acted desperate." She commented that she knows these quick impressions are hard, that she was certain all of the girls were great people, she just didn't see being a part of this group.
Invites for preference parties came this afternoon and she was hoping for an invite from Lilly and would have not been dissapointed to be cut from Iris. Well . . .
She is probably at her 2nd preference party for the night! She was thrilled to get invite from Lilly and going to keep an open mind about Iris for the party. However, she is learning toward suiciding Lilly, whatever that really means. She said it is discouraged, but after speaking with her Rho Gamma she was pretty certain she would rather try again than turn down a bid from Iris and not be able to rush again for a year. I don't know much about all of this, but it sounds like she has thought it through.
I am keeping my finger's crossed for her--thinking Lilly!
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