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Being a vegan is a lifestyle choice, and not a life-or-death dietary restriction. If somone offers you food or drink at a recruitment event that does not meet your dietary choices as a vegan, just say, "No thank you." No one is going to cut you from a house for refusing food. And if they do, honey, it isn't a house you want to belong to, anyhow!

Regarding your upperclassman status-- make sure that the office of Greek Life and the sororities receive a letter from your Running Start program regarding your status. Also, make sure any alum recommendations you get talk about the program and your age, and years you will have left in school. Talk about the program at parties and leave women with the impression you are an academically motivated leader--- it will help them remember you and your class status. You may still be cut for it-- like it or not, a junior is a junior, and a chapter that wants freshman is still going to take only freshman. But if you are proactive about informing the sororities and selling yourself as the Running Start PNM, you'll be well prepared.