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Originally Posted by ErinHope

*blush* thank you! That means a lot to me. My recruitment experience still baffles my Gamma Chi, but looking back, I think the reason was that I just didn't have enough personal connections with actives before going through. A lot of girls get bids from chapters in which their best friends are actives, but none of my close friends went to college with me. The girls I did know weren't Greek.

As for Pi Phi and me, everything is going well. I can't wait to move into the house and I'm excited to start recruitment!

I hope PNMs find this story helpful when they go through this year.

I hope you don't mind me pointing this out but if I could bold, star, and underline the above point and circle it, I would. I think it's important for PNMs to know.

With these big SEC schools, knowing sorority women personally from high school, camp, etc. is sooooooo important.

Can you get a bid without knowing women? Sure (as in your story.) But knowing women, being from the same camps, churches, high school activities, etc. goes a LONG way.

I think that's a part of recruitment that's kind of the "elephant in the room." PNMs focus on their recs, hair, make up, etc. but forget that the women for whom the "pendulum" of recruitment selection swings mostly in their favor are those who are "in the know" with sorority members (i.e. they know you and like you from *insert activity or camp here*)