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Sadly UGA Recruitment was a very painful experience for me.
I came in with:
3.8 gpa
3 yrs of varisty cheerleading
founder of a nationally ranked club sport
5 years of work experience
hundreds of hours of volunteer work
peer counselor
and at least 2 recs from each house
never touched any illegal substances (therefore no "drunk pictures" on facebook)
and I am having a book published in 6 months
In addition I personally knew 1-6 girls in every house visited during Round one, and my boyfriend is related to one of the Chapter Presidents and we'd spoken countless times last year.
After Round Two I had all 12 houses and felt that each house went well and I had meaningful conversations with the girls. Round Three I was cut from all but two.
I was very hurt but tried not to take it personally and really enjoyed my time at PiPhi and AGD.
Prefs morning I received a call 6 minutes before our meeting that I had been dropped.
I understand that it is often a numbers game, but I still feel like something must have happened between Round 1 and 3. How did I go from all 12 to getting completely dropped?
I know God has a plan for me and everything happens for a reason, but it is difficult to understand why this happened.
I also knew several girls who had drunk pictures or had a reputation for being very promiscuous that got bids from their first choice....
It was a learning experience and I guess Greek Life was not meant to be my path.
Best of luck to all the girls and parents of girls who got bids. I hope yalls first chapter meeting went well last night, it was fun to see all the girls dressed up coming back from chapter.
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