[Ag_Sis]

Okay, I think I need to clear a few things up because it seems that I'm being misunderstood here. Just because doing well in school and getting involved is my primary motivation for going to college, does not mean that it is the only criteria I'm looking for in a sisterhood. Academics just happens to be the topic for this thread so I think some of y'all are assuming that it's the only thing I'm interested in (which is untrue).

With that being said, because I'm in an honors program that takes smaller honors classes, it would be nice to know some others who have been there, done that, etc. Additionally, the organizations/programs I looked at have membership capped at a certain number. I assume I don't have to explain to you all how connections with someone "on the inside" would be beneficial during the new membership selection process. However, reading your replies, I still don't know a diplomatic way of asking if sisters are involved in certain orgs.

Of course I would want to join a sisterhood that I click with the best and one that I find a genuine connection with. However, I've never been able to make "connections" with anybody after 15 minutes of small talk. Besides, aren't houses cutting us based on superficial things like grades, involvement, looks, etc.? Why shouldn't PNMs choose (if we are in a situation to have such power, obviously) similarly? I'm not going to go through recruitment looking for checkboxes to tick off, but I would assume that academic girls have similar values and get along with academic girls, partiers and socialites hang out with other partiers and socialites, etc. I could be totally wrong, but that's what I've noticed in my HS friendship circles.

Perhaps it's just my personality, but I do prefer to know as much information as I can about something before I make a lifelong commitment to it.