I remember telling this story, but i'll tell it again
I went through rush because i wanted some of the all-girl bonding that i had in going to an all-female private high school...my orientation counselor was an AXO and she was SO NICE...didn't dirty-rush at all, just said that i would make a great greek and that i should come check out rush...so i did!
i went to all of the houses, got my choices down to my top 5, but when it came time to pref, it was AXO, XYZ and Gamma Phi Beta, in that order...as i was writing out my pref card, i was so torn between the three (max. number allowed to do a pref final for at my school) but i kept remembering AXO's pref night ceremony and it was the reading of our symphony that really clinched it...i knew that i had found a home with faith, hope and love of sisters...yet, i was still wary as if it might be too good to be true...
my rho chi delivered my bid that night and i opened it up and saw the AXO crest and just hit the ceiling and screamed "YES!!!!" the next day, i ran to my house and my orientation counselor just kept hugging me and saying how badly she wanted to say since the beginning of school that i would be the perfect AXO...she is now my big-big sister....looking back, i know that i would have probably made a good gamma phi because it's the house that i am closest too, second only to my own, but seeing how the XYZ sisters acted throughout the year, i know that i would have NEVER fit in there...i am so glad that fate took a hand in my selection process and i followed that voice that said "HEY! pref AXO!"