Though it's clear from my signature that I ended up in Sigma Delta Tau
, I *love* reading recruitment stories and writing so I thought I'd share my own
I graduated from my school this year and I'm realizing how much I miss Greek life, though ironically my recruitment experience was well...not the best. I went through a roller-coaster of emotions, which made for some cringe-worthy memories but a pretty good story
Ah how naive I was back then...
So without further ado, here is my Recruitment story from Fall '09. I'll break it up a bit into different posts.
My school has 11 NPC sororities. And for the purpose of this story, you will know them as...
Dr. Pepper
Root Beer
Coca Cola
7Up
Cherry Sprite
Mountain Dew
Ginger Ale
Pepsi
Cream Soda
Orangina
Sierra Mist
I rushed in the fall as a sophomore, as I had transferred to my school in the middle of freshmen year. I did attend several informal rush events in the spring, but not all of the sororities were taking new members and I wanted to give all of them a shot. Now it's a *bit* harder to get a bid as a sophomore at my school, but not out of the ordinary at all.
Meeting my Rho Ghammas and rush group was lots of fun. My RGs were incredibly sweet, funny and frank about the process. They gave us helpful advice and one of them ended up being very important to this story...
I spent a lot of time alone prepping for recruitment. I read countless articles, scoured GreekChat for advice and tips, and went shopping, diligently picking out what I (hoped) would be cute, appropriate and memorable clothing.
During our Meet the Greeks session, I stayed the length of it even after most girls had left so I could chit-chat and spend extra time talking to sisters when it wasn't so crowded. I was pumped and ready to go. I already had some favorites in mind, I will admit, but I wanted to try and maintain an open mind.
Little did I know, that would become difficult...
A fizzy, tasty RECRUITMENT story
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