My Small School Recruitment Story

[rollthedice]

Hello everyone!

So I've been a lurker on this forum for awhile and now that I am about to start recruitment I decided to register and write my recruitment story. I go to a small school in the Northeast. We have 4 sororities. Since I am far from creative I'll just use the 4 Disney Princesses as their code names.

They will be
Cinderella
Ariel
Belle
Jasmine.

At my school you are not allowed to go through recruitment until you are a sophomore. Unfortunately because of this rule, I know the general reputations and conceptions of these sororities. I am planning on going into recruitment with a blank slate and I am really excited to learn more about these awesome organizations. However, I will share the general reputations:
Jasmine- last resort, girls aren't exactly normal, completely different from national reputation
Cinderella- apparently girls here are party animals and are all exact look a likes, far from being the friendliest but a very popular group
Ariel- an acceptable group, has a wide array of girls, generally a positive group
Belle- the other popular group, very similar to their national reputation, girls are very nice in this group but again are carbon copies of each other.

Now that I have said those reputations outloud to all of you, I am planning on trying to forget about them and form my OWN opinions.

We have had an informational meeting already where everyone signed in and received a recruitment booklet. Outside the meeting there were booths with posterboards of pictures and information for each group. Each group also had a little guestbook where you put your name down to express interest. There were 4 representative for each sorority. I spoke to the Belles and had a great conversation with one of them. I even found out I live ridiculously close to her. I was a bit intimidated and shy though and feel as if I may have appeared awkward. I then went and spoke to the Cinderellas. Already I learned that perhaps their reputations were off. I tried to introduce myself before I signed into their guestbook and one of the girls was really friendly with me. Again I feel that I may have come off a little awkward. By this time I realllly had to go to the bathroom and only managed to sign Ariel's guestbook. I ran to the bathroom and when I came out the Jasmine's were packing up and I didn't catch them in time.

We have three nights of events and then bid day. However, since we are a small school we don't exactly have groups for house tours and the like. We can either tour the houses with the two Rho Chis OR go to the houses with a group of friends. To keep myself impartial I have decided to go with the Rho Chis rather than go with my friends and feel swayed by their judgments.

The events start up in a few days and until then, I'll just post my general feelings about things as well as anything related to recruitment.

I hope I did this right and it isn't too long haha!
-A