PNM Mom's "Places where I want to Travel" recruitment story

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My daughter has been going through sorority recruitment at FSU this week. According to her this year has the largest rush group ever with around 1580 PNM’s split up into 83 Rho Gamma groups. I was in the Greek system in college as an AOII (obviously) and was so excited that she wanted to go Greek as well. Even though my sorority is not at FSU (yet) I will be thrilled when she finally connects with a sisterhood for life that is right for her.

Since my kids are almost out of the house and my husband and I are already dreaming of the trips we would like to take I’m going to do a “Places where I want to Travel” recruitment story. Enjoy my travel dreams combined with my daughter’s FSU Sorority Recruitment story!

There are 16 chapters at FSU:
Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega,
Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta,
Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Mu, Sigma Delta Tau and
Zeta Tau Alpha

I have named them in random order: London, Prague, Vancouver, Curacao, Napa Valley, Cabo, Paris, Vienna, Hawaii, Cairo, Tokyo, Toronto, Aspen, Fiji, Barcelona and Athens.

Round 1 (Scholarship)
My daughter is not one for details so I won’t get into her impressions of each and every house at this point except for the few she told me about. She ended this round with a solid top 4 and only 2 in her bottom. She didn’t feel like she was able to make a strong determination of the rest because 20 minutes just was not a long enough time for her.
Her top 4 were:
Napa Valley – Her impression of this sorority was that all the women were beautiful, smart and sweet. She loved the house and enjoyed her time talking with her rusher.
Aspen – Out of the gate, this house was her favorite. She loved how stylish and athletic the girls were. The only disappointment came when she found out she was supposed to have been paired up with a friend from high school but the count was off at the last minute. I told her this was actually a good thing as this gave her a chance to get to know someone else new.
Fiji – She felt extremely confident about her experience at this house. She spent time with an officer and had some great conversation. She definitely felt like they liked her!
Athens – She loved this one, I think, because her rusher was extremely funny. She appreciates great humor and this made a great house even better in her eyes.
Her bottom 2 were:
Vancouver – She simply said something here just didn’t fit right with her. She had nothing bad at all to say about them except that she didn’t feel at home.
Vienna – The only thing she mentioned here is that her rusher was a bit aloof and didn’t seem really interested in her at all. I’m not sure what that meant exactly but she left without feeling a connection. She stated that was the only house she would likely not be interested in. I advised her that there are plenty of other girls in this group so not to form too strong of an opinion just yet.

She had no details about the other 10 but said they all were interesting enough that she wouldn’t mind coming back to any of them.