Beachgirl's Recruitment!

[beachgirl87]

Hi Everyone! I am a sophomore and I'm going to be going through formal recruitment this spring at a smaller college in the Northeast. There are 3 sororities on my campus and I know a few members from each one. I didn't go through recruitment before this because I didn't really know what it was all about, but many of my friends joined one of the sororities this past fall (they took a HUGE pledge class) and now that I know more, I think I'd like to check it out. My only concern is hurt feelings for the friends I have in each sorority if I were to receive a bid to one that is not theirs... I know that everyone says that you can keep your friends outside of the groups, but I've definitely seen less of all of the girls that pledged this fall... But I'm going in with an open mind that I'm going find myself a home and not choose a group based on where my friends found their home.

The three sororities had a pizza party the week before finals, but I was swamped with school work (procrastination doesn't pay!) so I couldn't attend. After talking to one of the Gamma Rho Chis, she filled me in on the details:

January 30th: Info Night and Registration
January 31st: Round I
Feb. 1st: Round 2
Feb. 2nd: Preference Night
Feb. 3rd Bid Night

I've decided to give the sororities nicknames based on my country favorite groups/singers:

Tim McGraw
Kenny Chesney
Sugarland

Wish me luck! Here we go!

[REE1993]

Who knows... being in different sororities may be a new "common thread" that you share in terms of types of experiences you go through. If you are NPC sororitities, many campuses now have NPC spirit days - "we are all sisters together" - where you celebrate being a woman, a Greek, your extended family. It might bring you closer.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by REE1993

Who knows... being in different sororities may be a new "common thread" that you share in terms of types of experiences you go through. If you are NPC sororitities, many campuses now have NPC spirit days - "we are all sisters together" - where you celebrate being a woman, a Greek, your extended family. It might bring you closer.

I agree, when I pledged, I found it much easier to keep in touch with friends in other chapters than friends who did not go greek at all.

[violetpretty]

Do you have friends in each chapter or are all of your friends in the same chapter?

Good luck with recruitment!

[lOaxO]

I am VP of Programs for our Panhellenic council at my school and we just started a new event called greek fest where we had all the Greeks set up a carnival booth with a game. There was no compition, eventything was free it was just to be around fellow greeks as well as promote positive PR for the Greek community. As VP Programs for our Panhellenic council I strongly incourage all Greek events like that to build bonds with other houses.

[lOaxO]

ps I am a second year at my school and in sorority, we have 6 sosority chapters and i can say i have more than one friend in each house, its a great way to make more friends in a community where it is all about compition between houses to avoid enemies

[Jill1228]

You are on the list

[AnatraAmore]

Hey Beachgirl... I think we're at the same school... I PM'ed you!!!