To hold us off until next month...

[ladybug12]

I saw my first 2 episodes of Dance Moms this morning...so now these names make sense to me!

More, more, more!!!

[Sciencewoman]

Apparently, we're also getting an advance taste of slowly posted recruitment stories.

[Pirouette]

I just wanted to check this site before heading off to bed and realized I still had a lot to post in cousin 2's recruitment. I promise I haven't forgotten! I'm visiting my in-laws so it's been pretty crazy. I'll get one more post up tonight then try to finish things tomorrow (it's supposed to be 100 here tomorrow so I can't imagine we'll be doing much).

[Pirouette]

Day 2:
Abby was invited back to:
Chloe
Nia
Mackenzie
Brooke

Abby was over the moon to be invited back to Mackenzie. She was fine with the rest of her schedule as well.

Chloe: These girls are really sweet and she enjoys her time here. However she doesn’t feel at home here.

Nia: Abby was glad to have a second look at Nia. They were nice, but she spent most of the party counting the minutes until it was over and she could go to Mackenzie.

Mackenzie: Loves. Still loves. She met some wonderful new sisters and got to see a couple of the sisters she met the day before. If Mackenzie is not on her schedule for preference, she plans to drop out of recruitment to either try for Mackenzie through COB or pursue Kendall (the colony).

Brooke: Just like the day before, Abby could not enjoy another sorority after spending time with the sisters of Mackenzie. And because of that, she liked Brooke less than the day before.

After Brooke, Abby went to rank again. She knew she wanted Mackenzie, but wasn’t sure who else to list as a number one choice. Abby ended-up ranking:

1. Mackenzie
(Kendall)
1. Chloe
2. Brooke
3. Nia

[Pirouette]

Preference:

Abby was invited back to:

Brooke
Mackenzie

Abby was so happy to be invited back to Mackenzie. She knew she was meant to be a Mackenzie and didn’t care at all that she hadn’t been invited back to Chloe.

Brooke: Brooke was a nice experience. She could tell the sorority was a great organization and the sisters were very proud to be in Brooke. The sister who preffed her was someone she had met on the first day this girl made it very clear that Brooke wanted Abby to join. But, the party felt like it was never going to end. She just wanted to get out and go to Mackenzie.

Mackenzie: Mackenzie was everything Abby had wanted it to be. She laughed while talking to the girl preffing her and cried during their ceremony. Abby was very forward and told the women preffing her that Mackenzie was her number one choice all week and wanted to see them on her bid card the next day. The girl preffing her smiled and hugged her as she walked Abby out the door.

Abby knew exactly where she wanted to be. To her, it really was Mackenzie or nothing. But her recruitment counselor told her it was in her best interest to rank both, but list Mackenzie as her number one choice. Abby wasn’t so sure about that since she was in love with Mackenzie and only liked Brooke. But Abby figured since her recruitment counselor was already in a sorority, she knew better than her how to have a successful recruitment. She ended-up ranking:

1. Mackenzie
2. Brooke

[Pirouette]

Bid day:

There was no phone call, so Abby got ready to meet her new sisters. She walked over with a couple of girl from her dorm to pick-up their bids. Abby didn’t really like these girls and hoped that they would not be joining her at Mackenzie. Luckily, when they opened their bids, Abby learned they would be going to Nia and Maddie.

Abby looked into her envelope:

Brooke

[IndianaSigKap]

She must have felt blindsided.

[sigmagirl2000]

you're killing me. What did she do?

[Sciencewoman]

Ugh...I could see that coming from the build up....

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Ugh...I could see that coming from the build up....

Ditto, but I was hoping it wouldn't be.

[Pirouette]

The first thing she did was talk to her recruitment counselor to tell her she would not be accepting the bid to Brooke and wanted to know how to get involved in the Kendall colonization. The recruitment counselor told her that since she signed the night before saying she would accept a bid to Mackenzie OR Brooke, she was bound to that bid for a year unless she transferred schools. This meant she couldn’t join Kendall at this school either. She told Abby that she might as well give Brooke a try then left to comfort another upset PNM.

Abby was furious. Why had her recruitment counselor told her it was in her best interest to list Brooke? If she hadn’t, then maybe she could become a Kendall, which she had always found as more exciting than Brooke.

First she called her mother to let her know what was going on and how she felt. Her mother encouraged her to go to Bid Day, but first call her older sister, who had also received her second choice on Bid Day.

Her sister was sympathetic because she knew what it was like to see your number two house listed instead of your first choice. However, her sister had liked her second choice almost as much as her first choice so it didn’t take long for her to get excited about where she ended-up. She also encouraged Abby to go to Bid Day and give Brooke a shot.

She called her best friend, but she was going through recruitment at another school that week and couldn’t really talk.

Finally, she called her Mackenzie cousin and yelled at her for not writing a good enough letter of recommendation to the sorority. The cousin assured Abby that she had said amazing words about her and couldn’t believe that her sisters didn’t want her to join. She also encouraged Abby to go to Bid Day and see what Brooke was about.

So Abby joined the other Brooke new members, almost all were extremely excited about getting their number one choice, Brooke. And Abby knew there were other PNMs who were crying earlier because they didn’t get Brooke. Abby smiled in pictures and accepted the Brooke gifts from her Bid Day buddy. But still, something didn’t feel right. Even two weeks into new member education, Abby felt like something was missing…

[Sciencewoman]

Yikes...I can't believe she chewed out her cousin (is that you?).

[sigmagirl2000]

whine whine whine.... then what? yes, I'm feeling older than my young years and am fighting to stay awake at 10:24 pm.

[Pirouette]

After a few weeks, Abby had fallen into a routine. Classes were going good and she started hanging out with the guy who went to her high school a lot (they learned they were both morning people and met for breakfast every morning at 6:30am). But every time she saw a girl in Mackenzie letters, she felt like crying.

Brooke was okay. Her Brooke aunt had sent her a lot of Brooke gifts to try to get her excited about the sorority. And Brooke was offering her what she wanted from Greek Life: they made her focus on academics and held her accountable at study hours, she always had someone to eat with in the cafeteria, and there was always at least one social event each week where she could meet new people. But even though Facebook said she was making tons of friends, she still didn’t feel at home in Brooke. Actually, she found herself missing home a lot.

Her sister offered to let her come visit for a weekend and Abby took her up on the offer. She stayed with sister in the Payton sorority house and hung out with her Payton sisters. She also met her sister’s friends who were in Christy and Kelly. During the second day of her trip, she thought about transferring to her sister’s school. The school had a good program for her major (but not as good as her current school) and she knew several people there already either from high school or through her sister.

Her sister loved the idea, as well as her friends. If she dropped out of Brooke and transferred, she’d be eligible for informal recruitment at this school the following semester. Unfortunately, her sister’s sorority, Payton, would not be participating in informal recruitment. Her sister’s friend in Christy also said that since they were well above total, they couldn’t take any new members either. The friend in Kelly said they may be taking two or three girls, but they would most likely be friends of members and they wouldn’t be holding recruitment events. However, there were three sororities that pretty much always did informal (Holly, Melissa, and Jill) as well as a non-NPC sorority (Leslie). There was even a sister in Melissa who had gone to her high school. And of course, there was Brooke.

Brooke always did well in recruitment (and had cut Abby’s sister after day 1). If she initiated into Brooke, she could potentially transfer her membership as well. Abby didn’t hate the Brooke sorority. She actually enjoyed learning about Brooke during new member education and their creed was basically a fancier way to say what she had always believed. Could she be a Brooke? Could she be a Brooke at her sister’s school? The friend in Kelly quickly went through her cell phone and found the phone number to Brooke who she worked on a class project with the previous year. She texted her and asked if she could bring her Brooke friend from another school by to check out the house and meet some sisters. The sister said yes, so they walked over to the Brooke house.

Abby was shocked how pretty the house actually was. She met the sister the Kelly had texted and got a tour of the house. She met several Brooke sisters got a long with them very well. When one of them asked her if she’d like to stay for dinner, she said yes. The food was pretty good and she had so much fun with the Brooke sisters. After dinner she stayed for a while and chatted with a few sisters and helped them get ready for a night out. Sometime during that afternoon/evening she started to feel the sisterhood bond with the Brooke sisters that she had been missing. The only problem was that this was not the Brooke chapter she was a new member of.

The next day, Abby returned to her campus. She knew she didn’t have much time to decide what she wanted to do. Initiation was only a few weeks away. And if she wanted to transfer, she’d need to apply soon. She had a lot of thinking to do.

[sigmagirl2000]

so Marcie is Brooke? I'm confused based on where cuts came from in story #1 and the relative relations in story #2.