Okay, now I have a beter understanding of what happens during rush, and SoCal girl I do understand about the marriage aspect and treating every girl like she is number one. That's what you do. What I'm talking about is what the girls do. For example: After I had done all of my research and decided to pledge Delta, I had to 1)get to know Deltas on my campus 2)Find out when the informational would be and what to wear 3) Attend 4)Get all of my letters, 5)send my transcript 6) Wait FOREVER for a call 7) Go to an interview 8)Wait FOREVER for a call and then things went from there. At each one of those stages I had to ask myself if DELTA was worth all of the hastle. Obviously I thought it was. Now unless I've really missed the point, rushees go through a whole long process, and at the end they could end up with their second, third, or fourth choice? That's like me going through all of those steps and in the end becoming a AKA, Zeta or SGRho (in no particular order). I don't care how sweetly they could have treated me, had I ended up a Zeta, I would have always known that I didn't get my first choice. When the Deltas did something, I would have been envious, they they won awards or went on trips I would have wanted to go or take part ect. And more often than not, I would not have affiliated with an Alumnae chapter. This isn't to say that there aren't members of BGLOs that "settled" for less than their first choice, but it is certainly harder, and it is a more deliberate act. Consiquently Delta has (far more) Alumnae chapters than collegiate chapters, and we have fairly common 50 and even 75 year Deltas.
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