Rush at UofA

[bamagirl09]

Unless things have changed since...oh, last week...orientation is 2 days. The orientation people are NOT lenient (sp?) about missing any parts of the day for recruitment. They have actually been annoyingly strict about it in the past...You may just have to bite the bullet and come during June or July or be ready to have fairly heavy cuts during BOTH philanthropy days because you will most likely be missing parties on both days...

[AOIIRhoDelta]

Not only is it not good to miss part of rush, but you will be basically screwed if you register that late. I know it seems silly as far as travel expenses, but get the earliest date possible. My best friend is a freshman at Bama who went to the tenth orientation (also honors) and her options were severely limited. she ended up only taking 12 hours that semester... including band and oboe lessons. she told me there weren't even any language classes left other than urdu...

[FSUZeta]

claire,

my daughter goes to samford(in birmingham) & we made two trips in the summer from naples-one for orientation in the early summer and one to move her into the dorm in august. we will making similar trips for our son this summer. it's worth it to do two trips.

orientation is important-it is at orientation that you will meet the kids you will be attending bama with for the next 4 years. believe it or not, in that short period of time you might make a good connection with someone you meet. you have one more chance to familiarize yourself with the campus and the town before classes begin. and i can promise you that the sorority members who are orientation leaders will be checking out all the pnms. they will do it discreetly, of course, but i know they will be letting their sisters know to be sure to "check out clairedelune from orlando-what a cutie!!"

more importantly, you register for classes, and as aopirhodelta pointed out, the pickings are going to be slim if you wait until right before school starts to register for classes-they don't hold spaces in classes open for late registrants.

there are enough pnms going thru recruitment at bama that the sororities don't need to cut pnms who miss a day any slack-and they won't. there are at least a dozen other pnms waiting to jump in your spot. your chances will be greatly minimized if you have to skip a day of recruitment.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

orientation is important-it is at orientation that you will meet the kids you will be attending bama with for the next 4 years. believe it or not, in that short period of time you might make a good connection with someone you meet.

Or you might develop a crush on someone that lasts for quite a while, until you see his picture many moons later and see that he got fat. I'm sorry, did I make this about me?

At any rate...I forgot about the whole not getting classes concept if you don't go through the earliest orientation you can. I went to maybe the 6th out of 12, and there were already LOTS of classes that were full. Oh, and even for my teeny school, ours was 2 days long. I can't imagine a big school like Bama would have a 1 day orientation. I agree w/ everyone else - go to orientation/register in July, get it out of the way, and then you can concentrate on rush!