A Colorful, Dramatic Recruitment!

[sugarberry]

Round 3:
I found it funny that recruitment events were called “parties” because they were so structured and formal. I guess “recruitment interviews” doesn’t sound as good. For Round 3 we could go to up to 6 houses.

My rho chi handed me my schedule and asked me how I felt about it. I looked down to see that I had been invited back to 5 parties – another nearly-full schedule! I felt very fortunate to have so many houses left still. Some of the girls in my group were down to 2 or 3 parties already.

I was asked back to these houses:
Purple
Black
Pink
Turquoise
Blue

I was very excited to be asked back to Blue and Purple. Lots of girls really liked these 2 houses, and they wanted me! My other three houses were the three I had ranked as alternates. I was a bit discouraged that I hadn’t been invited back to Green and Crimson, but I was excited to get to know more girls in Turquoise, Pink, and Black. If they wanted me back, then they must have seen something in me that I hadn’t seen yet in them.

My rho chi was happy that I was pleased with my schedule – I was an easy PNM for her!


I went to the parties, and here are my thoughts.

Pink: Pink’s skit was super polished and their decorations were fantastic. The dancer in me was very impressed. Unfortunately, I still didn’t feel I was connecting to girls here. I had several awkward conversations and it seemed like the girls were very nervous.

Black: I still couldn’t get the “we don’t emphasize sisterhood” comment from last night from out of my head. For this reason, it was tough for me to focus on this party. The girls were sweet, though.

Purple: This house had a cute skit and I had some more great conversations here. I didn’t realize how much I liked this house until tonight.

Turquoise: Turquoise’s skit was good, but I just didn’t feel a connection here. I was tired by this point in the night and I think it showed.
Blue: Blue’s skit was INCREDIBLE and I was matched with girls who said they had heard great things about me from their sisters. This made me happy – they remembered me!

Not surprisingly, I ranked these two houses as my bottom.
Black
Pink

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by sugarberry

Black: I still couldn’t get the “we don’t emphasize sisterhood” comment from last night from out of my head. For this reason, it was tough for me to focus on this party. The girls were sweet, though.

Yes, that does sound strange. But could there be some explanation, like this was her first time as an active doing recruitment, and she was kind of nervous, so what she meant to say come out totally wrong? For example, she was trying to say something like, the members are committed to academics and they don't emphasize the sorority over classwork? If you heard it from more than one member, then definitely a red flag, but just one girl saying it could be an unfortunate mis-step, or maybe even some personal issue she has with the chapter- if that's the case she shouldn't have said it, but it still could be something more reflecting on her than the chapter as whole.

Looking forward to hearing the rest of the story!