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We had 7 sororities at my school the semester I rushed, though at the end of the semester, we were down to 6...
Anyway, when I went through formal recruitment, the first night we go to all 7, the next day we cut one, or get cut by whoever didn't want us back. I got invited back to every single chapter except the one that I had originally been going through rush again. I decided to tough it out though and went to the next 6 parties. What was really rough here is that this time, we were supposed to go from 6 down to 4. I got cut by 4 though, so I ended up with a list of 2. I saw my list and was ready to drop recruitment. My Rho Gamma spent 20-30 minutes convincing me not and how these girls must have seen something really special in me. I only spent half that night at parties, while most other girls went to a total of 4... The night after that was pref night, and those same two houses invited me back. By pref night I already knew where I belonged though, because the previous night, the day I had been so bummed about getting cut so much, when I was talking to the girls at Kappa, I started asking them about fall informal recruitment and if it would be a bad thing to drop, and instead of trying to gloss things over they gave me real honest answers, and due to that, I really appreciated them for it, and it made me feel like they were genuine caring sisters for me.
So while I went to 2 again for pref, I suicided Kappa because by then I knew it was them or the highway and back to waiting for the fall.
On that note though: Plenty of them told me that there was nothing wrong with waiting until the fall and that it can even be less stressful. Had they not made me fall so much in love with them that night, I probably would have taken that fact and just waited until fall.
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