MaggieXi's Retro Elon Recruitment Story

[PinkRose1098]

It's so much fun reading this! I almost want to pull out my journal from when I went through rush - I was in the last group of girls to do this at Auburn.

[FSUZeta]

please do pinkrose. we love retro rush threads!!

maggie, was there no silence rules in effect at elon? it sounds like this "hanging out" at your dormmate's sisters apartment was designed specifically to check out the pnms. and it is definately a no-no on most campuses.

ps: you outfit sounded cute to me!!

[violetpretty]

I find it odd that the first round was 3 and 3. Seeing 6 in one day is nothing

[SoCalGirl]

I never understood the 4-1-4 system. Can you briefly explain that? Thanks!

[MaggieXi]

Basically the 4-1-4 as I understand it is that first and second semester are 4 months. January -- the "1" month at Elon was called Winter Term and you would take a concentrated class, study abroad or do an internship for 3 weeks or so. Every Winter Term that I had was a blast! I took some really interesting classes and did volunteer work my senior year.

As for the silence thing, back then (and I KNOW its changed since then) you could "hang out" with sorority women up until the Monday morning that recruitment began. It was a very gray area at the time! Once Sigma Kappa colonized the following year, the whole process changed. By the time my senior year came around we had a new Greek Advisor and she was very very good and changed our whole recruitment!

BTW, because someone asked me, the sororites on Elon's campus at this time were:

Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Xi Delta
Phi Mu
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

[MaggieXi]

So Sunday night I go and meet Heather my Rho Chi and meet with another group. Torey from my dormand from a bunch of my classes is in the other group and I am really happy that I know someone to go through first round with.

Our Rho Chis checked our name tags to make sure that they were ok looking. I think mine turned out really cute! It's kind of like a necklace and it has Maggie from the Simpsons on it since I am from Springfield too. Heather actually used mine as an example to the group because it was "memorable". We also got our schedules for Monday and Tuesday. I will be seeing: Down Dog, Shanti and Warrior on Monday and Tuesday I will be seeing: Om, Half Moon and Lotus.

When I got back to my room Traci was re-doing her name tag because she said that her Rho Chi told her it didn't say anything about her or make her stand out. Just to drive her nuts, I told her that my Rho Chi used mine as the example as what to do. She got a little mad at me, but maybe I know more about this rush stuff then she does! Elon was really big on name tags being about the PNM. Generally, it wasn't a good idea to make a nametag that was just your name.

Sarah came back tonight and she has definetly decided not to rush but she said that she would help me get ready and do my hair and stuff. Oh, and she is still not speaking to Courtney! But Courtney is really getting on my nerves too she keeps going to different girls rooms and telling them what she thinks about all the different sororities. This is what she says:

Om & Down Dog are the sororites to be in. They are for the really pretty and classy girls. Most of the girls in these sororites have lots of money too. So you have to be able to "aford" to be in their sororities. She is of course wants to be an Om or Down Dog.

Half Moon is third on her list already. They have a really good southern reputation and its generally they take only girls from the south so anyone from the north doesn't really have a chance with them. But generally, its more for the "regular" southern girls.

Lotus generally is full of party girls. The drink beer out of cans and through really good mixers with the fraternities, which, according to Courtney isn't a bad thing because that means frat guys want to hang out with the Lotus'. They also have a lot of girls who play sports.

Shanti is for really smart girls. They have the highest GPA and win everything. However, a lot of fraternity guys don't like to hang out with them because they are "know it alls" and "goody two shoes".

Warrior is absolutely the worst house to be in. Courtney said if you get a bid from them, you are better off declining it and re-rushing next spring.

It's amazing now to look back and see all the garbage girls like Courtney spout. They really make the whole process worse by putting all these thoughts in girls heads and make them doubt themselves!

I ran into Colleen from down the hall. She is a sophmore who didn't rush last year. She told me not to listen to Courtney's stereo-types and that she knows girls in each house and they aren't all like how Courtney has described them. Colleen is rushing this year and she told me that there are two sororities she would like to be in but won't tell me which ones because she said she doesn't want to jinx herself or listen to anything that other people have to say about it. I was so happy she told me that! Even though I wish she told me the two she likes the most!

I can't wait for tomorrow! Too bad I have to sit through classes all day first!

[violetpretty]

When I went through recruitment, my boyfriend was not thrilled about the idea, but he wasn't totally against it. He was younger than me, so therefore, still in high school, and he thought that I wouldn't have time to come home and be with him if I joined a sorority. He realized that denying me of a good time at college would just be selfish and he was ultimately supportive.