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06-05-2007, 05:21 PM
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*Prefs*
We get our prefs invites the next morning. Melissa has been invited back to Pi Phi and Alpha Xi. Kelli and I look at our invites. Yay! I got my two top choices: ADPi and ZTA!
Kelli looks at her invites. She has not been invited back to ADPi, but she’s very excited to be going to Tri-Delta and Pi Phi. Kelli is very sure she wants to be a Tri-Delta at this point.
ADPi is my first prefs ceremony. Amy, my rusher from the day before, greets me again. We have a chat in her room in the house and she tells me about her experience with the sorority, and she tells me how honored she would be to have me as a sister. We head into the chapter room for a ceremony, and I’m in tears. I just love, love, love ADPi!
Next, at ZTA, my rusher from the day before greets me. She isn’t a house resident, so we’re sitting at a table and talking about prefs-type talk. The ZTA’s are wearing beautiful white dresses with turquoise sashes. I really like these girls a lot. Their ceremony is lovely. Can I see myself as a sister here, though?
There’s a break between prefs and bid card signing. Kelli and I decide to grab Subway at the Student Union. She’s 100% decided to rank Tri-Delta first, but I’m still sorting things through. I love ADPi, but the ZTA's have made me feel really at home, too. In the end, I rank ADPi first and ZTA second.
*Bid Day*
On Bid Day, I eagerly open my envelope to read….
The sisters of Zeta……
WHAT?!
(to be continued...)
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06-05-2007, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by adpiucf
On Bid Day, I eagerly open my envelope to read….
The sisters of Zeta……
WHAT?!
(to be continued...)
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LOL. I have a story about that when you're done telling the rest of your story.
btw, I'm so glad you used the real chapter names rather than like, "Today, I went to visit the Dandelion house! I really like the Dandelions...."
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06-05-2007, 06:58 PM
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LOL. I have a story about that when you're done telling the rest of your story.
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Please tell!
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06-05-2007, 09:10 PM
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gee, i never knew how close we came to having adpiucf as a sister. it would have been an honor, but i truly am glad for her that she got her number one choice!
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06-05-2007, 09:17 PM
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Please tell!
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The ADPi bid cards are very confusing because they start off with "The sisters of Zeta Omega...."
Our PX made us stand in front of our group and open our bid cards in front of everyone. I look back on it and realize how evil that was considering that not everyone gets their first choice. I wasn't scared. I was 99.9% sure I was getting ZTA. (I very much dirty rushed....which is a bad, bad thing so don't any of college GCers do that  ) Anyhow, one of the girls opened her card (we'll just call her Jaime....I'll PM you adpiucf with her real name) and it said she got ZTA. She went and sat down next to me and this other girl in my PX group who had also gotten ZTA.
About 5 minutes later, one of the girls who had gotten TriDelta went on and on about how excited she was with her choice and asked if we were all happy. Jaime says, "Not really. I wanted ADPi but ZTA was my second choice so I guess that's ok." We all said sorry to her and told her that she'd be happy anyway since ZTA is also a great group. I talked to her and the other girl in my PX group who got ZTA about how we were all going to run to the ZTA house together. Jaime said, "Yeah, I'm excited too but I just don't know how I got ZTA. I really, really thought I would get ADPi."
She kept on talking for a while about how she was so sure she'd get ADPi. My PX overheard this and came over to inspect her bid card. "Ummm...you're an ADPi," my PX told her. The girl was all like "What???????" My PX explained to her that the bid card read she was invited to join the Zeta Omega chapter of Alpha Delta Pi. I guess Jaime saw Zeta and didn't read any further. Jaime was like, "Huh? Oh? Really? OK! YAY!" My PX walked away shaking her head. Incidentally, my PX was also an ADPi.
I would have laughed my butt off if Jaime showed up at the ZTA house and the girls were like, "Errrr...we don't have you on our bid list...."
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06-06-2007, 01:54 PM
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that poor girl.
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06-06-2007, 01:57 PM
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I've often wondered about the Kappa Delta Chapter of Chi Omega...or the Sigma Kappa Chapter of Chi Omega...
Maybe they don't have both groups on said campuses -- or perhaps they just omit their chapter designations!
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06-06-2007, 03:08 PM
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I've often wondered about the Kappa Delta Chapter of Chi Omega...or the Sigma Kappa Chapter of Chi Omega...
Maybe they don't have both groups on said campuses -- or perhaps they just omit their chapter designations!
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I STILL remember opening my card way back in 1984 and reading "The Delta Zeta chapter of...." and not reading any further.... 
....until my roommate picked it up and said "it says the Delta Zeta chapter of ALPHA CHI OMEGA!!!"
Which made sense, really, seeing as how I knew the envelope had been delivered to my room by a big group of AXOs and I had just been to their party (and I hadn't been to the DZ house at all!)!!
DOH!!!! 
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06-06-2007, 01:57 PM
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Thankfully in the end, she didn't end up joining either of our sororities. LOL.
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06-05-2007, 05:36 PM
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Seems like I remember hearing several years ago that UCF was the fastest growing university in the country. Is that still true today?
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I was wondering how they managed to get three chapters larger in the last decade. That would totally make sense.
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06-05-2007, 05:37 PM
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On Bid Day, I eagerly open my envelope to read….
The sisters of Zeta……Omega Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi...
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Sorry...the suspense was killing me!!  
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06-05-2007, 05:44 PM
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LOL.... ok, I'll finish my story!
As I was saying....On Bid Day, I eagerly open my envelope to read….
The sisters of Zeta……Omega Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi at the University of Central Florida cordially invite you to join their sisterhood.
YAY! And the rest, as they say, is history…
(For the record, Kelli got her bid to Tri-Delta and Melissa got her first choice at Pi Phi! We are friends to this day, and since I rushed, I got all of my best friends to rush—and I count a KD, DDD and Chi-O among my “sisters” as well as all of the ADPi’s!)
* Epilogue *
ADPi has been an amazing experience for me, and my membership has helped me to grow in so many new ways. I have been blessed with so many wonderful opportunities and friendships as a sister of this incredible organization. This fall, I will celebrate 10 years as a member!
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06-05-2007, 05:47 PM
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The End (well, not really -- you're a sister for life, right!?!)
:::::::applause:::::::::::
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06-05-2007, 06:26 PM
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Loved your story! Incidentally, I was living in Orlando during Fall 1997 and came an ace of asking if Zeta Omega needed any assistance as an Advisor or for rush or anything. I wound up not contacting them as I was freshly graduated and figured they would think me too young to help in that capacity. We wound up moving back to Tennessee in 1998, so I guess it was better that I didn't get involved and have to leave.
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