[SWTXBelle]

Hmmm ... the thread is called "Spring Break Mistake", so I've got to think that the op has had some second thoughts about the tattoo. One of the fastest growing sidelines for dermatologists is tattoo removal - both my brother and my sister have tattooes they'd like have removed. Literally thousands of people every year decide that their tattooes aren't a good idea. As an aside, I've never heard anyone say "Damn! I wish had gotten that tattoo! What was I thinking?"
So maybe, just maybe, it's possible to have a tattoo that isn't really representative of "the real you". In that case, showing the tattoo would be preventing others from seeing you for who you are - which should be more than a design inked onto your skin. I'm willing to be that your appearance was something that registered with your sisters - and they approved. Much depends on the campus culture.
When you have to cut hundreds of girls, you are going to have rely on some superficial things - be it tattooes, g.p.a. ,(Can you be a good sister with a g.p.a. .1 less than the cut-off? Yes.) activities, etc. I don't like certain aspects of formal recruitment, but it works for many women. I am not even suggesting that my daughter go through formal recruitment because she is temperamentally unsuited for it. I do hope, however, that she will go through informal, where you often have a better chance to show the "real you" in a less frenetic setting.

And that eyelid thing - ow! ow! ow!