DGMarie your to funny! I walked inot Initation and all these girlsd looked at me and said are you an alum and i said no not exactly i am the mystery pledge sister you didn't see all quarter long!hehe


Seriously though, I was one of the fortunate ones i must say. My Alpha Phi GC sisters know how quick it went for me. many commented how quick my AI process really was. They also know the frustration i went thru in waiting.


They say timing is everything and i truly believe that. lauradav mention that it was insulting and in some sense maybe it is but it is also unfair to make a woman wait and wonder well do they want me or dont they. That is is insulting too. When FR is only days and AI can take up to a yr...it is frustrating! Sistermadly and I were just discussing this the other day and the fact some on here have been waiting forever to find there home.

I contacted EO and they inturned contacted me a day later and that same day i heard from my first Alum Chapter ( the president) that i initiated into. I met them and they before even meeting me had the application for me to fill out and send in to EO. I was to be initiated in June in the spring initiation class but with convention and timing as well as the US mail it got pushed to fall initation. EIther way it comes to timing most of the time.

Ladies you got to rememebr that AI is farely new to the majority of groups. Let me say if i knew A Phi had AI in place yrs and yes ago i would be a member already but the groups that are NPC and those groups being around when i graduated college in 95 did not know of AI.

Yes chapters are very leary of what Ai is. Were all leary of new things. But we have got to get into the new century this isn't 1960s or 70s or 80 any longer this is 2003 and sorority life has come a long way from what it use to be and we should be open to all women who wishes to take part in our sisterhoods.


FR and AI are two forms of membership and yes each have some flaws but they also have some good things about htem too. I am the first to tell you i don't like to wait, i get to impatient but i understand why we are selective. Because we want the best for our GLO and we want the very best to be our sisters!


Laura