Recruitment Story (Finally Sharing It)

[M.Pennybags]

So I've been a member of GC for a few years, but have never told my recruitment story. I finally decided to do so. In order to tell an honest story I created a new profile.

I rushed the spring of my freshman year at a sort of competitive school in the south. There were seven sororities on my campus. I have given them the following code names:

Race Car
Train
Top Hat
Iron
Boot
Scottie Dog
Thimble


Before I came to school the idea of joining a sorority had never crossed my mind. I didn't have any Greeks in my family and I didn't have many friends that thought they would join Greek organizations either. However, when I started school I saw that many students were involved in Greek life. They seemed to dominate the social scene at my school. Additionally, during my first semester I hung out with my roommate and 3 others girls a lot and that all wanted to go through rush. (lets call them Go, Jail, Free Parking and Go to Jail). We attended the meet the greek events together and when it came time, we all signed up for recruitment together. Go was my roommate she was pretty laid back and like to party, she wanted to join a sorority for the social aspect. Jail was from Texas and was VERY excited about recruitment. During the summer her mother put together a big recruitment packet with tons of photos and references and she sent this to all the chapters. (I knew nothing about references and made no effort to get any, they weren't required). Free Parking was a legacy to boot through her sister. She also liked to go out and party and wanted to join a sorority for social reasons. Go to Jail was from the West Coast like me, where sororities aren't as big of a deal. She really wanted to join a chapter. She thought it would be a lot of fun. I still wasn't 100% sure if Greek life was for me but I figured I might as well give it a shot. It couldn't hurt to go through and if it wasn't for me, then I could always drop out.

More to come...