PinkBabygirl10's Informal Sorority Recruitment Thread

[DeltaBetaBaby]

At Illinois, we had plenty of women come through in January in jeans and sweaters, usually with sneakers or boots or other snow-appropriate footwear. Believe me, we did not think any less of them. I guess the gauge for first round would be something a little nicer than what you would wear to class, so if you are on a campus where women wear sweats to class, wear jeans to rush. If you are on a campus wear jeans to class, wear black pants.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

At Illinois, we had plenty of women come through in January in jeans and sweaters, usually with sneakers or boots or other snow-appropriate footwear. Believe me, we did not think any less of them. I guess the gauge for first round would be something a little nicer than what you would wear to class, so if you are on a campus where women wear sweats to class, wear jeans to rush. If you are on a campus wear jeans to class, wear black pants.

If someone came to one of our January COB parties, through the snow in heels, I would probably think they had lost their mind.

Originally Posted by adpiucf

LOL. I would never waste that money on lounging clothes unless I was a movie star. I don't think it is appropriate to wear sweat suits in any kind of setting other than lounging or traveling. That being said, I'm always looking for shopping buddies!

I like your style. I personally think that air travel requires flipflops and a comfy pair of pants. My dad is from the old school where you dress in Sunday best to fly. He used to yell at me all the time when I arrived here in NC for spring break.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I like your style. I personally think that air travel requires flipflops and a comfy pair of pants. My dad is from the old school where you dress in Sunday best to fly. He used to yell at me all the time when I arrived here in NC for spring break.

Just don't wear track pants with snaps down the side when you have to walk through the metal detector.

[LOVEinZTA]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I like your style. I personally think that air travel requires flipflops and a comfy pair of pants. My dad is from the old school where you dress in Sunday best to fly. He used to yell at me all the time when I arrived here in NC for spring break.

I know that feeling, except my dad worked for the airline, so we HAD to dress up, it wasn't a personal thing!

[navane]

Originally Posted by LOVEinZTA

I know that feeling, except my dad worked for the airline, so we HAD to dress up, it wasn't a personal thing!

Same here! Even now, I just cannot imagine flying without dressing in business attire.


.....Kelly

[FSUZeta]

don't worry about eyeliner-they should not know that you didn't list them on your bid card. bid matching is conducted by alumnae and the panhellenic advisor(and often a computer), and "what happens in the room, is supposed to stay in the room."

even if they did know, surely they would realize that people make mistakes. your opinion of them may have changed in the semester.

i am the recruitment advisor for a nearby chapter-we match bids by hand-i cannot remember who suicided zta or tri delta, and we advisors would never tell the collegiate members even if we did remember. there is just too much going on at bid matching time and we are too excited about the girls we did get, to worry about the girls we did not get.

you should be fine. don't worry.

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I like your style. I personally think that air travel requires flipflops and a comfy pair of pants.

I'm with you. I wore business attire once on a plane and I wouldn't do it again.

[33girl]

If ACCESSORIES is newer (I know you don't want to say if they are still in colony status or not so you won't get outed ) and they are a good deal smaller, they may be having events after the main informal rush activities are over and/or having a national team come in.

And yeah - unless it was something HUGE (i.e. the triple in-house legacy to BBB suiciding my chapter of AAA) you don't remember who put what down on their bid card from semester to semester.

[Stef the Pef]

Good luck! It sounds like you're going to do just fine.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by PinkBabygirl10

This is really weird. I assumed ACCESSORIES was new since they're so small and awkward at rushing, but I just read in a booklet we were given on all the sororities that ACCESSORIES was the second sorority to come on campus sometime in the 1970s.

They could have since reorganized.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

They could have since reorganized.

Yep. A lot of chapters that have done so just say "we were founded on campus in 1974" or whatever, neglecting to mention that they've been closed and reopened and recolonized 6 times since then.

And even if they aren't new, they may be receiving rush help from their nationals and doing their thing after everyone else is done doing their thing.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yep. A lot of chapters that have done so just say "we were founded on campus in 1974" or whatever, neglecting to mention that they've been closed and reopened and recolonized 6 times since then.

I'm sure if ASA ever re-opened Beta Kappa at WIU, we would still claim first sorority on campus - since we were, even though we'd since been closed.