Recruitment: An Unfinished Fairytale.

[alexandra92]

I go to a small midwest LAC with only local sororities, with a delayed rush, so the way we do things is very different. We also do not have houses. I don't think we are permitted to go national.

Anyway, how recruitment works, rush starts right after we get back from winter break, we spend a weekend going to informal's, which are about 1.5 hours a piece. Then come a lot of cuts, and you get formals, which last two weeks, one sorority formal a night. These can be up to three hours. Also this rush story comes to you in all of one post.

So the sororities are

Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast
Rapunzel
Sleeping Beauty
Thumbelina
Snow White

Cinderella: I loved these girls! They were extremely sweet and sophisticated. I enjoyed the conversations I had with them, and the seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say. Being my first group I was surprised to see them cheering us in quite loudly, and I got passed along whenever I mentioned something that they knew another sister was interested in. I felt very welcomed and it completely changed whatever preconceived notions I had about these girls.

Beauty and the Beast: Their rush was very cute, but I felt really out of place with the girls, they just weren't my type of people. They were all very nice, just not for me. This is a smaller chapter at my school, which doesn't really bother me, but the conversations where very forced and awkward to me.

Rapunzel: These girls had a very cute mystery theme, and I enjoyed talking to them and getting to know all the girls. They didn't really click with my personality, but for no particular reason.

Sleeping Beauty: This is the sorority that all the girls in my sport are in, so I already knew a ton of them, I enjoyed their rush and hanging out with them and talking about everything. This also seemed to be the most diverse sorority which was interesting. I also fell walking in when they were all cheering, so that was a great way to start the event.

Thumbelina: I was completely blown away by this sorority! They are all the sort of rough and tumble kind of girls you wouldn't expect to see in a sorority, along with girls who you would. I felt like I could really be myself here and was very comfortable, which was a shock to everybody especially myself because they don't always have the best reputation on campus, but I loved them!

Snow White: This was the day of the Superbowl. They had the game on. I didn't feel like they really paid any attention to us, which was disappointing, since this was the group I was most attracted to going into rush.

We got our formal invites in the mail, and a good chunk of girls got cut. I only got Beauty and the Beast. I went to my Rho Gam to drop out, because I did not feel any connection with the girls in that sorority, and I didn't want to waste their time when I knew I wasn't going to pledge. (For everyone whose saying "give it a shot!" a lot of girls will go to their formal recruitment just to get the food, since it's one of the best catered ones and I did not want to be the one to waste their time or resources. I knew they weren't a great fit and I didn't want to give them the wrong impression.)

Turns out Thumbelina's formal invites got screwy, and I DIDN'T get cut!
I was super excited.

So, as you can see, I only went to the one formal.

Thumbelina: Loved it, had so much fun, got to talk to all the girls, I could see myself just hanging out with these girls. They're very chill. My roommate and I went to this event together and both had a splendid time.

So I suicided on my preferences, only listing Thumbelina.

My Rho Gamma was late to deliver my bid and I'm pretty sure I scared her when I grabbed it out of her hand, opened it, then went jumping up and down screaming to find my roommate.

My roommate went Sleeping Beauty, and I went Thumbelina, PM me if you want the key, since I'm trying to keep this private.