Another UW Rush Thread - Sort Of

[mythreedd]

My daughter wasn't too keen on me writing a rush thread where I talk about the different houses, but she doesn't care if I write generally about her experence to date...which has been wonderful.

She went up to UW not really knowing anyone and thinks the decision to go through rush is one of her best decisions ever. Luckily for her, she also knew nothing about the 16 houses at UW, so she feels it is especially easy for her to follow the #1 rule of rushing (which we learned here) "keep an open mind."

She has only had wonderful things to say about the girls and their sisterhoods and houses. Although she is exhausted, she says when she finishes each day she can't wait to go back. She also likes the fact, that when they had to make their first selections, that the top 10 she got to rank all number 1, and then the next 6, she got to rank 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The ranking was very hard for her, as she felt she had met some wonderful girls. But when it came down to it, if she could remember a girl's name from a house or a wonderful conversation, she kept them in the top 10. For a couple groups she felt uncomfortable with the rotation because it seemed too fast for her, once a conversation got going to was time to switch, so she ended up using how the rotations felt as a factor in ranking as well.

She was scared to death receiving her first group of invites back but got a full schedule, including 9 of her number 1's, and her #2 house.

Yesterday, she visited 5 of the houses and couldn't believe how beautiful they all are. She is trying to use the advice I gave her when she applied to college: try to find many you really like, instead of one that you love, so that it in the end you get to make the choice, instead of being disappointed. And that's what she said last night, "I'm trying so hard not to fall for only one specific house."

One comment I have is I am also quite impressed with Panhellenic. They have told the girls not to talk about their invites, the houses they are going back to, etc., to other girls, and my daughter says it seems that the girls are taking that advice seriously. She and her room-mate (she's staying in the dorms this week) have hung-out a lot, gone places together, etc., but she says she does not know which houses "Colleen" is going to, and "Colleen" does not know which houses she is going to. My daughter said that is pretty true for all the girls she has met and has been hanging out with afterwards. So that's a great thing in my opinion.

I'm also keeping for her a rush journal based on our conversations and emails, because someone here said it was a fun thing to go back and read later on. I also think it'll be interesting to see how her feelings for different houses evolve over the next few days.

Well, that's it for now. To all the girls rushing, I hope you all find your homes, but most of all...have a blast!