Dirty rush can make you really not want to be a part of the system. Now, to understand my experience you need a timeline. I was at A school for my freshman year and went through informal rush second semester. The Rho Chi's were a joke, they only showed up when we all had to, they were not available for questions and I saw mine twice, the first and last days. I loved 3 houses but knew that one would only be able to COB me in the fall due to "promised" bids. The next house (2) dirty rushed like there was no tomorrow. I was promised so much, told who wanted me as a little by pref. Needless to say, no bid.
I then took a semseter off before transferring to B school. In the spring I tried informal rush again. I loved 3 houses again (two of the same from A school). Once again, I was promised a bid and the numbers seemed to fit for me. Guess what, no bid. The intersesting thing is that the sorority that did this was the same on both campuses.
So in the fall, I went through formal rush as a sophmore with my roommate. We were dirty rushed from the beginning. They wanted us so bad that we almost had to avoid them on campus. I still liked two other houses but was told some weird things about them by XYZ. We both got pretty scared and I ended up doing something stupid: I suicided pref night. Yep, I was dumb. So, I became a member of XYZ because I was scared. Don't get me wrong, I love my house but if they hadn't pursued me in the way they did, who knows. I may have gone the two other pref parties.
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