Auburn Recruitment Fall '08

augreekmom · #1 08-16-2008, 11:01 PM

Awww, big hug to your daughter. It must be so hard to see her hurting right now. While many suggest that it will be difficult to find a sorority home through COB, I hope your daughter will consider registering. You just never know. If sorority life isn't meant to be, there are so many other opportunities to get involved with community service, SGA, intramurals and the many clubs at Auburn. Best of luck to her.

estherjb · #2 08-16-2008, 11:11 PM

This is the part I hate about rush that falls before classes begin. Deferred rush seems like such a better idea, for many reasons.

dgdramadawg · #3 08-16-2008, 11:14 PM

Congrats to all of the chapters at Auburn on their great numbers and great girls! And special congrats to Pi Phi, who got one of my all-time great students... she is so happy to be an angel!

AnchorAlumna · #4 08-17-2008, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by estherjb

This is the part I hate about rush that falls before classes begin. Deferred rush seems like such a better idea, for many reasons.

IMHO, recruitment before classes is better because you don't have conflicts with classes, and you avoid some of the tent talk and rumors. It doesn't interfere with or distract other students coming back to school. You get it over with and done.
But really, it's just what you're accustomed to.

FSUZeta · #5 08-17-2008, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

IMHO, recruitment before classes is better because you don't have conflicts with classes, and you avoid some of the tent talk and rumors. It doesn't interfere with or distract other students coming back to school. You get it over with and done.
But really, it's just what you're accustomed to.

ditto!

Katmandu · #6 08-17-2008, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

IMHO, recruitment before classes is better because you don't have conflicts with classes, and you avoid some of the tent talk and rumors. It doesn't interfere with or distract other students coming back to school. You get it over with and done.

Amen to that! I HATE deferred winter recruitment, especially on a competitive, heavily greek, cold, wintry campus. Dirty rush, awkward office transitions right before recruitment, winter initiations with snow and ice storms interferring in travel for legacy moms and advisors, not getting women truly integrated into the chapter until soph year, entering the fall semester with depleted numbers due to graduation.... my list goes on and on!

AuburnPNMom, so glad to hear about your daughter and how well everything worked out for her after a tough fall quarter last year. I remember your story, and was wondering what the outcome was. Sounds like a great situation for a great girl.

ree-Xi · #7 08-17-2008, 10:49 AM

Congrats to all the new members at Auburn, with special hugs to my new Alpha Xi sisters, and the new members from the New England area!

Auburnmom - I never participated in formal rush (I was clueless about the Greek world and didn't even know that rush had happened until after I saw the girls in white dresses...). Anyway, a class friend brought me to a COB event in January of Spring semester. I knew virtually no one in a sorority, until I went to the COB event, and found out a girl I used to carpool and perform with in HS (a year older than me) was a member!

Not sure if that helped or hurt (because we had had a one of those boy-related tiffs in HS), but I indeed found my home in Alpha Xi Delta.

If your daughter does find a home with one of the sororties, or finds her college family in another way (and it looks like 75% of girls find their niche elsewheere), best of luck to her. Auburn is a fantastic establishment and just going there is an incredible opportunity.

barbino · #8 08-17-2008, 10:52 AM

AuMom08---

Congratulations to both you and your daughter. It was worth reading the entire thread to find out that I have a new sister and we all have a new "baby angel."

SWTXBelle · #9 08-17-2008, 11:06 AM

AuMom08 - congratulations to you and your daughter! Hope she has a wonderful new member period and loves her new sisters.

(Hooray - one advantage to being a sorority with carnations as the flower is 1.) they are always available, and 2.) usually inexpensive!)

barbino · #10 08-17-2008, 11:33 AM

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AuMom08 - congratulations to you and your daughter! Hope she has a wonderful new member period and loves her new sisters.

(Hooray - one advantage to being a sorority with carnations as the flower is 1.) they are always available, and 2.) usually inexpensive!)

SWTXBelle - I have often thought exactly that about carnations, although sometimes finding wine ones is a challenge and you end up going with spray painted wine-tipped ones. They look great if you combine them with blue-tipped ones.

FSUZeta · #11 08-17-2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

AuMom08 - congratulations to you and your daughter! Hope she has a wonderful new member period and loves her new sisters.

(Hooray - one advantage to being a sorority with carnations as the flower is 1.) they are always available, and 2.) usually inexpensive!)

amen!! just think about trying to find white violets anytime of year

PinkRose1098 · #12 08-17-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

IMHO, recruitment before classes is better because you don't have conflicts with classes, and you avoid some of the tent talk and rumors. It doesn't interfere with or distract other students coming back to school. You get it over with and done.
But really, it's just what you're accustomed to.

Amen! I couldn't imagine trying to hold recruitment in the way Auburn does after classes begin. All I could focus on that week was sleep, eat, recruitment parties, and setting up for the next day.

greyhoundrescue · #13 08-16-2008, 11:14 PM

YAY!!!!!
Congrats to every house, every girl, and every proud mama and papa!
BIG congrats to the girls from Marietta, Smyrna, Powder Springs, Peachtree City, and Fayetteville, GA.
EVEN BIGGER congrats to the girl from Newnan!!!!! (my hometown!)

UGAalum94 · #14 08-16-2008, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by augreekmom

Awww, big hug to your daughter. It must be so hard to see her hurting right now. While many suggest that it will be difficult to find a sorority home through COB, I hope your daughter will consider registering. You just never know. If sorority life isn't meant to be, there are so many other opportunities to get involved with community service, SGA, intramurals and the many clubs at Auburn. Best of luck to her.

I don't know that it's super hard to find a home with COB; it's just often likely to be the same home a PNM would have found had she stuck it out with the groups on her invite list.

Certainly, if she decides that she wants to be greek, she will have options with COB and with the colony.

Auburn does have a bunch of opportunities, so she'll have a great experience no matter what.

ETA: Last year, there really were some COB opportunities in the spring with more groups that usual. Maybe it will be a trend or maybe it was related to colonization this year.