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My Rush story is an interesting one I think. I rushed as a transfer student at the beginning of my junior year. I ended up pledging a local. I stayed with that for about a month.. It was horrible.They hazed, and it turned out that it just wasn't the place where I was supposed to be. Due to their pledge system (and some nasty mean-ness) I ended up being depledged. Then spring semester of last year I decided (after some hesitation) to rush the NPC sororities. We have an organized informal recruitment during spring. How it works is; there is one open house, during which rules are explained, and PNMs go through in groups (like formal rush) and meet each org for 20 minutes. then there are three rounds of parties (also like formal rush) but the PNM choose which groups to return to, no pref cards or cutitng of any sort and it doesn't end with pref party. So I decided after that first round not to return to one house because I could tell right away they weren't for me. The other two however impressed me, and seemed to have good strong chapters and nice girls. I went to all three parties for each organization. By the end of the week, I basically had decided that one was better for me than the other. I was still a little hesitant, but, I got a bid, I accepted, and now I have the best sisters on earth !!!!!! OH as a side note... after being depledged from my local basically "being a bad pledge" (more to it than that.. but..) I received the "outstanding new member" award from my chapter at our formal this year... so, I would have to say you're only as good as the people around you.
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