I have been lurking here for a few months and thought I'd join to post my daughter's recruitment story. It will be a Reader's Digest Condensed Version as she is not incredibly forthcoming with minor details and I was horrible about writing down all she did tell me. However, there are valuable lessons in this story that might be of help to others down the road.
First a little background: No one in our family has ever "gone Greek". Very few have ever even gone to college. She is out of state and only knows one student at Auburn. That young lady is in a sorority at Auburn but was three years ahead of her in school so they don't really know each other. She has close to a 4.0 unweighted GPA, was very active in school, community and church organizations, holding several leadership positions. She has never aspired to be a cheerleader, homecoming queen or pageant participant (not that there's anything wrong with that). It never even occurred to her to participate in recruitment until she went to Camp War Eagle early in the summer. Even then, she was more interested in going to meet people than anything else.
Due to very little time and no experience, I spent the summer on Greek Chat. There I learned that we were woefully unprepared as neither of us had even heard of Lilly Pulitzer.
Still, we ventured on. She was able to secure at least one rec to every sorority through friends, friends of friends and even friends of friends of friends. For a few, we relied on friends of acquaintances. I was not above asking total strangers for advice and suggestions for getting recs. At Walmart, I once saw a license plate of a particular sorority we needed and seriously considered having the owner of the car paged. We shopped for clothes that would work for recruitment and be of use later.
We made the long drive to Auburn and got her moved in and ready. I was a nervous wreck about her recruitment. She was as cool as a cucumber. Her philosophy in recruitment and in pretty much all things is that it works out the way it is supposed to work out and there is no point in worrying. I can assure you this is not a trait she got from me.
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