how do sororities decide?

[33girl]

1) There are 26 NPC sororities, ergo, there are 26 different membership selection procedures. There might be a sorority who penalizes you for meeting too many members. There might be a sorority who cares about nothing but grades and cuts everyone else. I have no clue. I (and everyone else on here) am only in one and therefore only privvy to the procedures of one.

2) You should have asked your Rho Chi or someone else for a ride to the pref party. There are lots of stories on here about how someone was "meh" about a sorority through rush and then loved them at pref. You missed that chance.

3) I like thinking about airports in Paris.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

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3) I like thinking about airports in Paris.

I'm a CDG fan myself, but ORLY is fun too.

To the OP:

I'm going to be really honest with you. I went through informal recruitment, and I only gave one group a shot. I really wish I wouldn't have done that. There were so many fantastic women in each group that I would have loved to have called my sister, and I only got the chance to meet them by becoming more active with and in the Panhellenic Council.

I almost didn't get a bid to my organization. In fact, I don't even know why they bid me in the end, because even I would have probably cut me. I'd like to say I would have been devastated, and confused, but I don't think that's true. I just wasn't that in to being greek at the time. Fortunately I came around while I was a new member, but that doesn't happen for everyone.

If you aren't pinning all your hopes and dreams on being a member of a sorority, then by all means, cut them, blow them off, don't go when you're invited. If you really want to be a member of a sorority, at least go to the sorority that invited you to their preference. That's the closest you're going to get to actually being a member during the recruitment process, it's like trying on an outfit. THEN decide if they're not for you. That's why you rank after preference rounds, and that's why you sign a preference card. If you still thought you wouldn't have liked to have been in that chapter, don't fill out the preference card, just sign a blank one.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

I'm a CDG fan myself, but ORLY is fun too.


If you aren't pinning all your hopes and dreams on being a member of a sorority, then by all means, cut them, blow them off, don't go when you're invited. If you really want to be a member of a sorority, at least go to the sorority that invited you to their preference. That's the closest you're going to get to actually being a member during the recruitment process, it's like trying on an outfit. THEN decide if they're not for you. That's why you rank after preference rounds, and that's why you sign a preference card. If you still thought you wouldn't have liked to have been in that chapter, don't fill out the preference card, just sign a blank one.

This is why I love you.

This is great advice.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

This is why I love you.

My dad and I went to Paris for Spring Break last year. He said it was a graduation present. When we got there I realized that he took me because he wanted to go but didn't want to learn any of the language, so he figured his kid had a degree in foreign languages, she could be a translator. Probably the most exhausting vacation of my life (although yes, we did have a great time!).

He also used me as his personal tour guide because I had been to Paris before.

While we were setting up ticket reservations, I made sure we were dealing with Charles de Gaulle. Because every time I think of Orly, I think: