This is something I hadn't thought of in probably 25 years but a chapter sister and we were discussing rush today and she brought it up. Southern gals, clutch your pearls because you're not going to believe this!..... (I'm going to use real sorority names because it was so long ago I can't imagine anyone would care)
When I was an active, the Big Three were, alphabetically, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta and Delta Zeta.
There was a rushee named "Bridget" who was in the same Rho Chi group as my sister and me our freshman year and she was incredibly outspoken that the only house she would consider joining was TriDelta. After she was cut by them (can't remember which round), she dropped out of rush, presumably, never to be seen again.
Well, sophomore year rolled around and here I was on the other side of Rush. Guess who came back? Bridget! And she was still determined to be a TriDelt. She was breathtakingly rude to the sisters who tried to talk to her at our party and our Rho Chi contacts assured us that she was the same everywhere, except at Delta Delta Delta. We cut her after the first round, as did many other houses and TriDelt eventually cut her too. Again, she dropped out of rush, presumably, never to be seen again.
Ha! If you believe that one, then you don't know what rush is like at a big state school that is only about 11% greek.
Bridget showed up again during formal rush our junior year. Still determined to be a TriDelt. Still breathtakingly rude to the other houses. Still cut heavily. The difference this year? She got a bid from Delta Delta Delta! After three tries (DDD never participated in informal rush), she finally reached her Holy Grail.
To this day, no one who wasn't on TriDelt's Bid Committee that year knows how that happened. Not even the sisters who weren't part of the Bid Committee. (said one TriDelt to a friend of mine, "I don't know what happened. I looked up at Bid Night and there she came running across the Quad right at me".
Maybe someone felt sorry for her? Maybe someone was bribed? Maybe they thought she was someone else with the same first name? The world may never know. Not that it's our business anyway
So THAT, ladies, is an example something that would never, ever, EVER happen at a Southern school!
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