Petals' Recruitment Story at Penn State (finally!)

[SECMom]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

I tend to think that doing rush while school is going on gives the pnms more perspective than doing only rush for a week before school starts. When all you are doing is rushing, you tend to get a little crazy and think your life will be determined completely by the outcome of rush, which just isn't quite so.

But I wonder if moving rush into the school year helps with this or not at places where greek life is a huge deal. For instance at Ole Miss, did moving it back help make it more sane or did the insanity continue as always but now everyone has to juggle class too?

My older daughter went through rush at Bama the first of the only 2 years that they had a delayed rush--and it was only delayed 2 weeks. Bids went out at 4pm and she had a test in her 5pm class, even though the university had said that no tests would be given that day, so she missed a good bit of her bid day activities. The next year rush was delayed 2 weeks again and trying to balance rush with classes nearly killed her. She is a huge proponent of rushing before classes start.

My younger one just went through rush at Ole Miss, and she says that she wouldn't take anything for the 7 weeks she had at school without being in a sorority. She loves the fact that she had an opportunity to bond with so many girls without them being members of different groups, plus she was able to get her academic feet under her without having a lot of pledge activities to go to. She was fortunate that rush was the week after midterm, and since their rush is fairly short (3 parties) the most intense part was on the weekend. She is a huge proponent of delayed rush......but her sister just rolls her eyes and says: "wait till next year!"

I rushed at Auburn in the 70s and can't imagine juggling all that with classes. I have a feeling that Baby Bird will go through once as an active and then do everything in her power to become a Gamma Chi.....that is what I did

[blackngoldengrl]

Delayed rush gives you a sense of how to manage work with greek life, too. Not that you will be spending 4 hours each day doing sorority stuff ( for the most part... ) but it can give you an idea of how to balance, and plan ahead-as it seems Petals is doing.

Good luck Petals, I'm looking forward to hearing how this goes with soooo many choices!