Yep, you got it.
It was a rush for a newly chartered chapter.
I was thinking the same thing that someone posted earlier. The older sorors kept saying "It is a new breed. They just don't know. That is why they need mentors". But I was like, couldn't they have at least looked at it like a job interview? At the very least, a job interview. I thought that it was common sense to dress professionally for such an event, but I realize that common sense isn't all that common.