I pledged freshman year; had a great rush except was cut right before pref by XYZ sorority that my mom and my grandmother were in. I had decided before then I didn't like that sorority that much, but it really hurt my feelings. You're like why? Looking back, knowing what I know about recruitment- probably grades. had a 2.5 GPA. I ended up making 3.5-4.0 in college. Their loss.
So then it was down to DG, which was a chapter that had all types of girls, and another sorority, say ABC, which was made up of only blonde, beautiful girls. Also
every girl from my school in my group went ABC. But they were really cool about it; by that, I mean they didn't act like I was a sure thing. ABC was really nice, but I just didn't feel like it was for me. I also wondered if they were really that nice or just fake. After I decided on DG, they(ABC) were so nice to me. I could have been happy there in retrospect. But I'm very much a want to make friends on my own, not be chosen for who my parents are.
I did go through an "I wonder" phase, but only because the DG that rushed me ended up being my big sister but wasn't around that much. ABC had this girl rushing me from my school that I liked so much. So I was sad about it because she just was a great person. At our school, sororities didn't mix too much with each other.
I was right about most of the chapters except for my own.
Apparently we were a 2nd tier sorority just up from 3rd tier.
I knew we were 2nd tier but didn't know the move up was pretty recent. In fact, short story- evil fraternity XYZ asked our sorority to a swap (mixer) for April Fool's Day and it was a lie. Because to them we were a bunch of fat chicks. About 6 years before I pledged.
During rush I was wowed by the rising sophomore & junior class of DG. These were sharp girls. The seniors were cool too, but kinda different. When our amazing pledge class got in, the guys took notice! They had been taking notice but finally
all the fraternities wanted us to have mixers with them! Even evil fraternity XYZ! That was a really boring mixer.
Now the years have flown by: almost 20 years! The chapter is amazing and I know I've personally contributed to that. Been very impressed with the leadership at Executive Offices and seen one colonization as well! I hope my daughters go Delta Gamma.
It's funny, my niece went ABC at the same school and is really happy there. I'm glad for her.