Yes, I got my frist choice, but it took my a while to get there!
When I was a senior in high school, I was at a Hillsdale prospective student reception with my parents. We were talking to a current Hillsdale student who was wearing a little golden key on her sweater and we asked her what it meant. She told us that it was her sorority, Kappa, and if I was on campus soon she'd love to give me a tour of the house. So, when I went to Hillsdale in March, my admissions counselor took me over to the Kappa house (which is beautiful, by the way) and she and the girl I'd met at the reception gave me a tour. Thus, when I started school at Hillsdale in the Fall, I knew that I was going to rush, and I though that maybe Kappa would be a good place for me since they all seemed so nice when I was a prospective.
However, one of the girls on our cheerleading team went through Fall informal and went Pi Phi, and always told us freshman WONDERFUL things about Pi Phi. Plus, I had a good friend who was also a freshman (now my roommate at the Pi Phi house!) whose sister was a Pi Phi and would always invite us to her apartment to hang out with her and her Pi Phi roommates, despite all the rules!
Well, when formal recruitment rolled around, it was me, three other freshman cheerleaders, and this friend of mine with the Pi Phi sister all going through together.... Like all good PNMs do, we got together and talked about everything when we were on silence, of course!
First day we all went to all four houses (Pi Phi, Kappa, Chi-O, and AXD) and the same on the second day. Third day was formal desserts - I got invited back to all four, but only went to Pi Phi, Kappa, and AXD. I knew I wouldn't fit in well at the Chi-O or AXD houses, but our dean insists that we attend all three desserts if possible, so I just went to AXD for good measure. I was the most laid-back PNM in the history of recruitment, I think - I was totally oblivious, and wasn't really thinking about the outcome at this point.
However, I got invited back to all three pref parties, and then I started to think. By this time my friends and I had decided that although we liked the Kappa house, we probably wouldn't be very happy there, and thus I preffed Pi Phi and AXD. I went to the Pi Phi pref party first, and when we left, we were all basically in tears - the pref party really made me realize how comfortable I was with the Pi Phis. I went to the AXD pref party and, although it was a really nice ceremony, I left knowing that Pi Phi was my true home. I walked out arm in arm with three other PNMs who are now my Pi Phi sisters. As we walked up the hill to rank our choices, we all looked at eachother and silently mouthed "Pi Phi", which we definitely were NOT supposed to be doing.
Back at the dorm, my friend with the Pi Phi sister was totally torn between Pi Phi and Chi-O, while I, totally disobeying all the niceties of rectuitment, had suicided Pi Phi. We got a knock on our door, ran up the hill, and gathered in the dean's office to receive our bid cards. When our envelopes had the same handwriting on them, I knew it was Pi Phi...... And the rest, as they say, is history!
I remember being so confident in my choice, because I knew I wanted to be a Pi Phi, but being soooo worried for my friend because I wanted her to be a Pi Phi with me and she was totally torn! But, it all worked out in the end.