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Drumroll, please...
lol, I hope your "yes" is going to be echoed by others! Since I have free time at the moment and I love the Recruitment Stories forum (I usually go by another screen name that reveals my affiliation), here we go!
First, my ground rules:
1.) I will NOT reveal the geographic location of my school because it will make the school VERY obvious for anyone in the know.
2.) If you figure out the school (and by deduction who I am), congrats, but please don't post it here.
3.) At the end of the thread, I will PM anyone who is interested the code and school name and location.
4.) I'm going to refer to the school as Small School.
5.) Small School's NPC sororities:
Maybelline--a very "girl next door" image
Revlon--definitely the pearls and twinsets image
Stila--the fun-loving, stylish image
Small School also has one NPHC sorority with its own recruitment.
Ok, let's roll!
I graduated from high school in 2003 but already had a year of college under my belt at the same time (I took university courses for high school credit). So, I came to Small School as a freshman with sophomore credit standing. I had a very high GPA, was very active in extracurriculars, and volunteering in high school, but I was never the "popular girl". I was always more of a wallflower. I come from a family with NO Greek life connections (except for a grandmother who desperately wanted to be a member of a certain GLO, but was barred from doing so because she lived off-campus--this was the Midwest in the '40's) and I was basically clueless about Greek life and recruitment.
I LOVED Small School. It was the perfect opportunity for me to open up and step out of my shell. For the first time in my life, I had a slew of friends, a social schedule that was hectic to say the least, and a very *exciting* dating life. One of my new close friends, I'm going to call her Coco (for Coco Chanel :-)) and I became fast friends with several affiliated girls and guys--three in the same sorority, one from another, and most of the guys from the same fraternity. Coco's sister was in a sorority at another school, but Small School did not have that GLO.
Small School has formal recruitment in the Spring (well, January actually). In late November, they held a Greek Life open house and Coco and I decided to go. Despite receiving admonishment from my family for even considering going Greek (my mom is an alum of one of the big schools in Florida from the '70s and she had very negative experiences/perceptions of sororities. She was definitely GDI all the way!), I decided to give it a whirl. Coco; however, did not. Her boyfriend at the time was opposed to her pledging and for whatever reason she decided not to go through recruitment (don't worry, you'll hear more about Coco later ;-)). I paid my money and went home for Winter break.
All break, my family teased me about even thinking of pledging, but I did my homework. I was very impressed by the number of Greek women in Congress, on the Supreme Court, in high positions in every company and field. I was nervous that, while it might be right for me, no sorority would want geeky ol' me. Finally, I returned from break (early for recruitment).
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