Big Sister selection

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

One thing I really like about ASA is that on bid night you get a Ruby Sister who is your temporary Big, until you get your official Big. Best of both worlds.

Lots of sororities do this, a sort of "bid day big" until you get your big. In Sigma Kappa, we call them heart sisters. I've heard of DG's anchormates, ZTA's strawberry and white violet sisters, AOII's panda pals, Theta's kite sisters, Kappa's key sisters, etc. I like it because as a new member, it's nice to have someone to guide you right away, yet, if you meet someone else you fall in love with a few weeks into your new member period, you're not bound to the girl you met during recruitment.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Lots of sororities do this, a sort of "bid day big" until you get your big. In Sigma Kappa, we call them heart sisters. I've heard of DG's anchormates, ZTA's strawberry and white violet sisters, AOII's panda pals, Theta's kite sisters, Kappa's key sisters, etc. I like it because as a new member, it's nice to have someone to guide you right away, yet, if you meet someone else you fall in love with a few weeks into your new member period, you're not bound to the girl you met during recruitment.

We had heart sisters until one sister decided to change it and call them dove darlings which made me throw up in my mouth a little.

[OleMissGlitter]

When I pledged back in 1996, I got a "Rose Buddy." She was my temporary Big Sis until I got my real big sis. She was just someone who sat with me at meals and I could call her if I had in questions. I personally think that a new member should find out who their big sis is about 2-3 weeks into the new member period.

[_Lisa_]

Originally Posted by AlexMack

We had heart sisters until one sister decided to change it and call them dove darlings which made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Heart Sister, Dove Darlings...we called them Heart Sister back in my day, but the current chapter I advise calls them "Pearl Pals."

[KSUViolet06]

It really depends on the sorority. In my chapter, we got a new "Pearl Pal" for every week, until Big/Little Week, which was the week before initiation.

[Emilyzd]

In my chapter when I was an active member we had a Pi Pal until we recieved our diamond sisters at our sisterhood retreat. Now the girls that are actives get there diamond sister on bid day I think b/c our International office thought that was a form of hazing. I liked not knowing who my big was until sisterhood retreat b/c it was a total suprise and we were giving clues along the way to trick us.

[SWTXBelle]

We had a big sister of the week every week until right before initiation - then we had a big sister reveal.

[SigKapChatter]

[quote=violetpretty;1518560]Lots of sororities do this, a sort of "bid day big" until you get your big. In Sigma Kappa, we call them heart sisters.

At our chapter we call them violet sisses.

[aephi alum]

At my chapter, you got an Alpha sister on bid day, an Epsilon sister a week later, and a Phi sister (your big) a week after that. I'm pretty sure they still do it that way. The new member period is 6-8 weeks, so you have an "official big" for most of your NM period, but before that, you have two different "temporary bigs" who give you little gifts, take you out for coffee/ice cream, and basically make you feel welcome and make sure you meet sisters you might not have met during recruitment.

[thetaprincess]

At my sorority we called the bigs that we got on bid day our kite sisters.