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Originally Posted by Ally T
She said they could change it, but they like it being really tough. Why is it so tough? Why wouldn't they want more good members?
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This is the kind of attitude you have to put behind you if you want a snowball's chance of being successful in rush. Few things are more unappealing than someone new who walks into a situation, points at the people already there and says "you're doing it wrong."
You have a whole semester to become the person YOU want to be NOW - not someone a family friend portrays you as in a rec or who you were when you graduated high school. Get involved on campus, don't sit in your dorm room playing online. Make an effort to meet sorority and fraternity members from as many groups as possible through extracurriculars, classes, and parties. (If you go to parties, either don't drink at all or have one drink and stop. You don't need to be the drunk freshman.) Surround yourself with POSITIVE people. Girls who tell you how humiliating recruitment was, who deride the Greek groups for their exclusivity and who talk about how much better their school's way of recruitment is are not positive people.
And do keep an open mind about all the groups, but be true to yourself as well. You should feel a sorority will contribute to you as much as you will contribute to a sorority. If this is too one-sided either way, you don't end up with a very positive sorority experience.
Good luck!