Auburn Recruitment

[carnation]

Auburn PNMs, if you're reading this--stay cool. Literally and emotionally. Don't compare yourself to the girls around you; everyone will be doing that and what you need to focus on this week is you and your decisions. Be kind to everyone around you, no matter what others are doing, and focus on future sisterhood. If you get cut heavily, particularly after second parties, focus on the invitations you did get and develop friendships at those parties.

God bless you. Good luck and we're all behind you this week. War EAGLE!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by carnation

Auburn PNMs, if you're reading this--stay cool. Literally and emotionally. Don't compare yourself to the girls around you; everyone will be doing that and what you need to focus on this week is you and your decisions. Be kind to everyone around you, no matter what others are doing, and focus on future sisterhood. If you get cut heavily, particularly after second parties, focus on the invitations you did get and develop friendships at those parties.

Such good advice.

At the end of the day, you can only receive one bid anyway.

So try not to freak out about the number of invites you get.

[FSUZeta]

how beautiful. i know the members must be so excited!

[danke shoen]

these pictures are so beyootiful. i m jelous!

[lawgal]

Awkward1, I am hoping you will keep us updated about Auburn Recruitment, at least generally. I am an alum and love to hear the Auburn stories. (I even like the weather forecasts!)

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by lawgal

Awkward1, I am hoping you will keep us updated about Auburn Recruitment, at least generally. I am an alum and love to hear the Auburn stories. (I even like the weather forecasts!)

Heck, I'm an Alabama alum and I, too, love to hear the Auburn stories!

[FSUZeta]

auburnmom09, good luck to your daughter!

[FSUZeta]

it seems to happen every year. pnms, no matter where you are rushing, heed awkward1's advice on fluids and food.

[baci]

Wish your daughter an amazing week and best of luck. I hope her dreams come true!^^

I also wish for lots of strength and support on your end.

Keep us posted!

[Wasn'tGreek]

I am at Auburn volunteering (working) during recruitment. I am sure your daughter's Pi Chi gave her this advice but you may want to suggest she bring an umbrella in her bag. She can use it for shade now and for protection for the rain (which is supposed to be coming later today). The girls are allowed to carry bags around with all of their gear and their Pi Chi's watch the bags while they are in each party. I noticed a few girls doing this yesterday.

Whoever mentioned the air-conditioned hallways in the sorority dorms is correct; however, for some reason the Pi Chi's aren't bringing the girls inside while they wait. I don't know the reason for this; maybe Panhellenic won't allow them to. I did hear rumor that shade tents were supposed to be provided by Panhellenic but they were not there yesterday.

Good luck to your daughters... I saw all of the PNM's yesterday and they were so cute! Keep us posted as they days go on. Greek Chat is a good place for nervous Mom's. We've all been there and we can help you through the process!

[pam713]

She has an umbrella and a battery operated fan to help keep her a little cooler. She had great things to say about all of the chapters she met yesterday and was excited to go back and meet the rest of them today. She is a big fan of GC so I think she will be realistic about tomorrow's cuts.

[GPhiBLtColonel]

I am so excited to see the new facilities! I am going over to help on Thursday morning and then again on Friday for Prefs.

[AuburnMom08]

Good luck to the new class of PNM moms. I was in your shoes last year and I KNOW how anxious you all are this week - best of luck to your girls. I talked to my girl this morning and it is hot an humid as per usual.

The parking area is far away from the village and she forgot her name badge in the car and had to put on an extra shirt to cover her letters and trek back to her car and get her name badge - and hurry before the 1st party! She called me along the way and said she was a hot sweaty mess and was just going to put her hair up, I laughed and said 'bet you don't ever forget your name badge again huh?' She's having a lot of fun this week, so busy but still enjoying it, I enjoyed hearing all about it last night.

And I don't know if its been mentioned elsewhere but I didn't see it in this thread, she said there were 1109 girls rushing, thats down a little bit from last fall but not much.

Best of luck to everyone - War Eagle!

[awkward1]

What I love the most about Auburn recruitment is the fact that all of the school's chapters are so strong. There was one chapter that was typically smaller than the others but last year they went all out and made quota! There is very little disparity between the chapters and if you were to ask 10 different people to rank the sororities you would get 10 completely different answers. There just does not seem to be a cut and dried tier system at Auburn and I think that makes rushing that much more exciting! The PNM's can really concentrate on where they feel at home and they don't have to worry so much about being in a top/bottom tier sorority. It can also make ranking at the end of the day very difficult because there are so many good ones to choose from. Each and every sorority has pretty girls, not so pretty girls, thin girls, large girls, athletic girls, academic achievers, musicians etc. You really can't go wrong at Auburn, you really can't.

[lovespink88]

AuburnMom08, I was just reading through your old posts, and I remembered seeing you post here last year. I hope you don't mind me asking, but looking through your posts, we never got to hear a conclusion to her story--did she end up going through COB? Did she do colony recruitment with Theta?