A very retro rush - with frills

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Originally Posted by dvs-dz

Sunday morning we met once again to receive our pref invites - we could accept two.

I received invitations from

Emma
Sense & Sensibility

which I promptly accepted! I wasn't upset about being cut from Pride & Prejudice. Although they were a great group, I just hadn't made any connection there. Marianne accepted invitations from Emma and Pride & Prejudice. Eleanor received pref invitations for all 5!, but surprisingly accepted Emma and Pride & Prejudice, cutting her legacy sorority.

Another phone call from my aunt, who related how she had suicided Emma.

I went to Sense & Sensibility first, and seem to recall wearing a long formal dress. My rush date was my summer correspondent, who gave me her drop (lavalier) to wear during the party. There was a lot of one on one intense conversation about what S&S meant to them, then a group talk, then the wishing well. Looking around the room, I saw a lot of my friends here.

Then Emma. A pledge I'd never met was my date. I wore a formal white cocktail dress. They did another musical skit to Pippin (the legend of the mystical fill-in-name-of-gemstone). It was pretty amazing! I felt like I'd been raised to be an Emma. But as I was leaving, I noticed another rushee sobbing her heart out, and I couldn't for the life of me understand why - I'm just not that emotional.

We were immediately whisked to the cafeteria to sign bid cards. I should add that at my college quota was determined by the number of rushees accepting second night invitations. Which made it hard for some sororities to make quota, as there were quite a few dropouts after second night.

I really didn't think much as I wrote out my bid card. I listed:

Emma
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice
Persuasion
Mansfield Park

It never occurred to me to not list all the sororities!

Afterwards, there was still quite a bit of excitement, and rushees were telling each other who they put first (yelling from cars at the Sonic!). I was a bit upset, though, that one rushee told her sister (a member of Sense & Sensibility) who wrote what. Obviously, silence was just a vague concept here!

On Monday, the alum reps for each chapter met and hand-matched the bids (before the days of computer matching). If a girl didn't get a bid, she would get a phone call around noon.

So I eagerly awaited Monday afternoon...

OK i know this is a "Frills" rush and all, but you were wearing this girl's letters during RUSH??????? oh you got some 'splanin' to do!