Sophomore Rushing Fall '10

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by ExcitedSoph

Good luck to you too, lovely1919!!

AzTheta, thanks so much! Like I said, I'm really trying to ignore all the rumors. Recently I've met girls that are in sororities with not so great reputations on campus & they are some of the sweetest girls & becoming really good friends! I'm starting to figure out that those rumors are just rumors & nothing more. (Better late than never, right?)

My GPA is higher than all of the house averages so I'm hoping that it will help outweigh the fact that I'm not coming in as a freshman. I'm also planning on attending med school at my University so I'll be here for a while! One thing that I'm worried about is that I wasn't as involved last year as I would have liked, especially compared to everything I did in high school. (Which is one reason I want to rush, I DEFINITELY want to become much more involved in things!) I'm from a small town (we're talking like barely 1,000 people) & small high school so freshman year was really an adjustment time for me. (Main reason I waited to rush- I wanted to be sure I could handle everything.)

Do you think that this will hurt me a lot? Will the sororities even look at everything I did in high school since I'm not a freshman?

Originally Posted by ExcitedSoph

I'm pretty sure at my school you are given an alumni status (at least I know it's like that for the fraternities). But I know some girls that were in grad school last semester & they were still very involved with things.

From personal experience, medical school is very different than graduate school. The course work is so rigorous that you will NOT have time to function as an active member of your sorority. It will be nice to have sisters close by, but I wouldn't count on being at chapter meetings and every event once you graduate and go on to medical school. You really won't have the time.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

From personal experience, medical school is very different than graduate school. The course work is so rigorous that you will NOT have time to function as an active member of your sorority. It will be nice to have sisters close by, but I wouldn't count on being at chapter meetings and every event once you graduate and go on to medical school. You really won't have the time.

Hell, one of my sorority sisters is waiting until her next rotation because right now she doesn't have the time to get food with me. Much less attend a meeting or event.

/or she secretly hates me

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

From personal experience, medical school is very different than graduate school. The course work is so rigorous that you will NOT have time to function as an active member of your sorority. It will be nice to have sisters close by, but I wouldn't count on being at chapter meetings and every event once you graduate and go on to medical school. You really won't have the time.

That's what I was thinking.

Plus, don't use that as a selling point during recruitment. Unless you have guaranteed admission, you don't know if/where you are going to end up going to Medical School. I'm moving 1,000 miles away to a school I never even dreamed of applying to, much yet attending. And yet, once application time came, it became my top choice.

[Kappamd]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

From personal experience, medical school is very different than graduate school. The course work is so rigorous that you will NOT have time to function as an active member of your sorority. It will be nice to have sisters close by, but I wouldn't count on being at chapter meetings and every event once you graduate and go on to medical school. You really won't have the time.

Ditto to all of this. Heck, I barely have time to participate as an alumna.