I really want to share my Recruitment story! There were so many ups and downs, it was really crazy. I have made this new username as to hide who I really am.
I'm going to preface this with a disclaimer: My school is small, and so is Greek Life, therefore I'm going to have to leave out details. There's certain things that a person who knows my school could pick out and would point right to me! And sorry, but I won't reveal my code for the same reason.
There are 3 Panhellenic sororities on my campus. I'm naming them after types of pop.
Coke
Pepsi
Sprite
Pre-Recruitment Happenings
I was a legacy to two groups, Fanta and Mountain Dew, but they didn't have chapters on my campus. My mom really encouraged me to go Greek because she loved it, so I signed up for Recruitment as soon as possible. I knew of only three other girls on my floor who were rushing, and so we were excited! When the Greek Life brochures came in our mail, we poured over them - it listed colors, mascots, and there were cute pictures from events. From reading this brochure we all decided that we wanted to join either Pepsi or Coke.
I called my mom and told her about the different groups. She cautioned me to wait for the actual parties to decide which group I wanted, but obviously I didn't listen to her.
The party scene at my school really revolves around Greek Life. The weekend before recruitment started, one of the girls on my floor whom i'd gotten pretty close with asked me to go to a party with her and a couple of her guy friends. The guys were all rushing one of the fraternities, and she said they needed to bring hot girls to tonight's party. I was excited because this was the first party i'd heard of at my school! So we went to the party.
When we got there we saw two groups of girls - the guys said they were Pepsis and Cokes! He told us they would be watching us all night. One of the guys already in a Fraternity said not to drink too much and DON'T talk to them. My friend didn't listen and ended up dancing on the bar. I held back and talked to some guys who said they were rushing one of the other frats on campus.
Finally it was time for the pre-recruitment social! We were excited to meet our Rho Chis and get into our Rho Chi groups. What we didn't know is that all the sororities would be there too! We walk up wearing the clothes we wore to class and there are TONS of girls wearing lettered shirts! We both are really scared, but then we see our Freshman Orientation leader - wearing a nametag that says "PEPSI - President"!! In our minds, we were so relieved and excited about the prospect of being a Pepsi. We talked to her and a few other Pepsi and Cokes, and then we had to go get into our groups. The whole event was really uncomfortable now that I think about it and probably broke a few rules too - ALL the PNMs and ALL the sorority women together at one time? It was chaos.
Our Rho Chi groups were divided up, and I had no close friends in mine. We went to talk about the rules of recruitment. They really focused on the rules regarding oral bidding and what is classified as "dirty rush". We were given a piece of paper and told to make a collage that tells about ourselves and bring it with us on the second night. We walked back to the dorm giggling about the nights ahead and how excited we were that our Orientation leader was the president of Pepsi.
Before recruitment began, these were my opinions of the sororities:
1. Pepsi- Fun, cute, trendy, liked by the Fraternity boys
2. Coke - All-American girls, wore a lot of makeup, "Southern"
3. Sprite - Not interested at all. Nothing about them stood out to me before Recruitment began.
to be continued...
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