Auburn University Rush--Fall 2007

[AuburnMom]

An update….. Kate just called! They have finished the ice water teas. After the ice water teas were over, each group met with their Pi Chi’s and ranked the 16 sororities, indicating which of the 12 they wished to return to for the second round parties (second round is Philanthropy Parties and they can attend up to 12 parties). They were told to rank the 12 they would like to return to as number one and then they were told to rank the remaining 4 sororities as numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5. These lists are then cross referenced with the Sorority’s lists and invitations for the next round parties come from this. Invitations for the next round parties are given out tomorrow morning right before the parties start. She said that it was tough to decide on all of the rankings as she was making decisions based on only 20 minutes worth of conversation and she enjoyed herself at the majority of the sororities. I can definitely see where it could be tough.

I am proud of Kate as she has stayed true to herself and she is making her choices based on where she truly feels at home (even at this early stage) and not by what she is hearing from the other girls. She gave me the detail of her visits to the sororities and as soon as I can think of some snappy nicknames (like I am ever going to beat the girl who used the Care Bears for the sororities—I just loved that one!), I’ll update with that information....

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for her……

[PinkRose1098]

Yeah! Thank you for keeping all of us who wish we were there in the loop. I hope that your daughter has a wonderful recruitment and ends up in the sorority of her choice.

[ZTA72]

Thanks for letting us know!
Good Luck to your daughter!!

ZTA72

[AuburnMom]

I decided to use European countries to represent the 16 sororities at Auburn University. So, in random order, here are the sororities that the girls visited over the last two days of Ice Water Teas:

Spain
France
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Switzerland
Luxembourg
Ireland
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Monaco
Scotland
Austria
Italy
England

Kate seemed to enjoy her visit to most of the sororities, but she did mention that she really enjoyed her time in Ireland, Austria, and Sweden and felt most at home there. She also enjoyed her time at Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, and France.

Kate’s roommate enjoyed England the best (even though I am sure there were others she also enjoyed) and I haven’t heard yet about Kate’s suitemate.

Tomorrow morning the girls find out to which sororities they will be invited back to visit for the Philanthropy parties. I think they are all stressing a little over the number of parties that they are going to be invited back to and which ones. Most of the girls went out to dinner tonight with their Pi Chi’s and the Pi Chi’s spent a good amount of time emphasizing that very few girls get invited back to 12 parties and that the average is usually lower. The girls find out in the morning where they are going and then immediately head out to the first party. I am guessing I won’t get an update until the end of the day.

I’ll keep you all posted……….

[honeychile]

I can't even imagine getting all dressed and ready, and then finding out which houses you're invited back to!!

Best of luck to your "Kate" and her friends!

[ufpiphi]

Bless your heart! I assume most mothers are on pins and needles during their daughters' recruitments (I know my own was) and here you are thinking of us needy GCers!
Best of luck to your daughter!

[AGDee]

If she is disappointed with the number of invites, remind her that she can only join ONE sorority anyway... that may help soften it up a little.

[UGAalum94]

I think being dressed up and ready to go probably keeps some girls who are disappointed at first with their results in rush longer. And since the groups who they go to may win them over, it really might make a big difference over all.

If you got your results, and then went back to the dorm and compared with everyone else and heard more tent talk, you might be more likely just to call the whole thing off.

Auburnmom, thanks for posting this thread, and I hope your daughter has a great recruitment!

[Jill1228]

Woo hoo! A current rush thread! I added you to the list

[AuburnMom]

Kate will attend 12 parties in this round! She's so excited. I don't know yet which 12 she is attending and I don't have any information on her room mate/suite mate yet. Apparently she received her list and had a few seconds to send me a text message before she headed out to her first party. She told me she'd call me at lunch and let me know which 12 and I'll update more at that time.

Thank you all for your kind words of support and ufpiphi, you are correct, I am on "pins and needles" this week!

More information later in the day......

[AuburnMom]

Hello....

I just talked to Kate; she is still having a good time at rush, but I think she is beginning to get a little tired and I think the heat is getting to everyone! Tomorrow morning she'll find out how many parties she will be going back to and where she will be returning for round three (skit parties).

As mentioned a few times cutting from 12 to 6 sororities could be tough for some PNM's. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

I'll update tomorrow....

[LOVEinZTA]

YAY FOR RUSH!!! That's really all I have to say. Can't wait to hear all about your daughter and her friends!!!

[Momto2gals]

I kind of know the numbers the sororities have now as I have been checking out their websites and such (although a few of them you can't tell) What is the TOTAL number of sisters a sorority at AU can have? I know the most I have heard of is one has about 222 and the least (based on what my daughter told me she has heard) is one that has 100 members. So if a sorority has lets just say the big one with 222 members. They can't accept as many pledges as the one with 100. Is that correct?
oh and by the way. Thanks so much for being so understanding. I went to a university that only had 3 sororities at that time and had a very hard time just getting women to go through rush so I had no problem getting a bid from the one I wanted. This is all very different and scary to us. I have another daughter coming up although she is still quite young. What advice can I give her. What do the sororities at Auburn look for? Is that GPA a BIG issue? Do you need a 4.0 or higher to be considered by the bigger sororities? And if there is a problem with so many going through rush at Auburn, then why don't they have more chapters there? I know at Alabama for instance there is about 18 or more, right? I have been telling my daughter to just pray about it. I will tell her her chances are not that good at being picked up during COB by the ones that she wanted. She should probably join one of the ones she went to today. Thanks for all y'alls help!!