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Connect, connect, connect. As someone else said, forget about yourself and focus on the other person. Find something you have in common with the person you're talking to - major, home town area, what they do during the summer, hobbies, pets, sports teams, language, or music. It's best to avoid politics or religion, but if one of the sisters mentions doing voter registration and you worked on that too it's fine to talk about it. Or if someone mentions a certain camp or youth group that you recognize as exclusive to your faith, it's fine to say "Oh wow - are you X? So am I - have you ever attended XY conventions?" and make a connection from there.
As for your sense of humor, you may need to tamp it down a bit for recruitment. If it makes you feel any better, I got put in the kitchen a lot during recruitment because they were afraid my sarcasm and odd sense of humor would scare away potential members. I think they only let me be Rush Chairman one year because they figured the paperwork would keep me from actually talking to any of the rushees.
And I don't want to sound like a wet blanket, but you also might want to look into whether or not the group VALUES scholarship (if they are allowed to take you). Like playing tennis with better players, right now you need to be around women who will encourage you to study and not just to have fun.....
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