Well, I figured that I'd give everybody who commented on my thread a little update on how the rest of my informal recruitment experience went.
Whoever said that listening to tent talk is "the worst thing you can do" was absolutely right! I LOVED XYZ! As soon as I walked in the door, I was greeted with nothing but smiles. One of the sisters took me into a room to show me their poster boards and I was also given a tour of the house, which is something that the other houses didn't do. I also really liked the fact that they showed us videos of their philanthropy work and they even showed us a slideshow of what their sisterhood meant to them, which was very touching. After spending the evening with these girls, I couldn't imagine where the nasty rumors came from.
I went back to XYZ's house the next day and I got to have some pretty deep conversations with a few of the sisters. I feel like those conversations went very well and I think I made myself stand out to those sisters. It felt as if I was talking to a friend as opposed to a stranger. It's a shame that I couldn't get their numbers because I would still like to keep in contact with them and hang out with them outside of the sorority.
That being said, I didn't get a bid.
I'm a little bummed, but I wasn't surprised. Like I said before, there weren't many bids to go around and plenty of wonderful girls rushing. I'm happy for those who did get in though. They deserved it. All I can really do is keep my head up and work on improving so I'll be prepared for formal recruitment in the fall. I think one of the problems was that even though I had nice conversations with the sisters I did talk to, I didn't talk to enough sisters to make an impression on the group as a whole. I talked to maybe 10 in the two days that I went there, which isn't much considering the sorority has 100+ girls in it. I believe that it just wasn't the right time for me since I already have enough stress in my life with trying to work on raising my GPA. The best that I can do is just work on improving myself and hopefully, talk to more sisters during formal recruitment. I'm already very excited for it and I can't wait for fall!
Hybrid Mode
