Advice Needed

[southbymidwest]

GArunnergirl--Congratulations on getting into UGA, all of your accomplishments, and getting a ROTC scholarship! I have family in GA, and I know how very difficult it has become to get into UGA. Please check with your ROTC advisor ASAP (or whatever he/she is called), as to requirements for attending ROTC functions. It also sounds that you are quite good at time management- you are ahead of the curve as compared to many incoming freshmen.

I will tell you, a number of the girls in my daughter's sorority are pre-med, engineering, finance, physical therapy, physics, math, honors accounting and some other really brain-busting majors, and are balancing their lives successfully. In case you are wondering, NO ONE gives them crap for being brainiacs. (Especially when one is struggling through weed out chemistry, accounting and calculus courses and bless them they are willing to explain the concepts so that one can understand them). Everyone has strengths that they contribute to the sorority. BTW, Big Bang is younger daughter's favorite show.

Does UGA send out a recruitment booklet during the summer months like some other SEC schools do (I am familiar with USC's)? If so, it may have some pretty specific examples for what to wear type outfits for each day. Or check their website. In addition to your aunt, you might want to head to a large department store (Nordstrom/Dillards, I can bet you they will have someone who will be able to give you help). You might want to bring the UGA recruitment booklet or printed website pages so they can understand the looks that you are going for. You might also want to check the threads from this year (polyvore) and "what to wear for recruitment" threads from last year-some great looks. I would post the threads but for some reason can't. I would also read the stickies, and any SEC/UGA recruitment threads, if you haven't already, they will give you an idea as to what to expect from recruitment.

Great that you got recs!

The website you mentioned is poisonous. Period. I think every single sorority in every single university on that website has had nasty, catty, hurtful comments written about it. Ignore it. Is your cousin happy in her sorority? That is what counts. All those idiot posters who denigrate her sorority (or any others) can stick it.

One last thing- although I would tell the sororities about ROTC, I would not tell them about your hoping to get into USAFA. Since it is only a possibility at this point, you don't want it to be a strike against you.

Good luck!