Recruitment Heartbreak

[FSUZeta]

Don't beat yourself up. You need to love yourself and be your own best friend. If you feel confident and happy, people will pick up on that. If you think you are going to mess up, folks will pick up on that too.

Have you made friends with any sorority members? Have you joined any clubs on campus? Done any volunteer work? How are your grades? Those are all going to matter. If you have gone to class and stayed in your room you may want to put yourself out there this semester, get involved on campus and wait to rush in the fall. You need to have something other than simply a warm body to offer.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

Have you made friends with any sorority members? Have you joined any clubs on campus? Done any volunteer work? How are your grades? Those are all going to matter. If you have gone to class and stayed in your room you may want to put yourself out there this semester, get involved on campus and wait to rush in the fall. You need to have something other than simply a warm body to offer.

Yeah, as of now I know about six members of one of the sororities and I talk to them daily. I'm an executive officer (read: leadership position) in our school's Paranormal Investigation group and a member of our pagan club, I have a 2.8 GPA and volunteer at my home town's humane society and help with fund raising on campus whenever I can by donating to other events and such when clubs host them. I also went out and bought all new clothes for rush so I can dress better, and I've been working on conversation skills.

And in reply to KSUViolet06, my Gamma Chi did later tell me we had almost 180 girls rushing - there was no way everyone was going to make it past house tours and it's possible I was part of just a very large round of cuts. I figured the computer thing was them just telling me a lie to soothe me, but in reality I'm so hard on myself I had it drilled through me head they must've just not liked me or I didn't stand out enough.

This time around in Spring I'm determined to fix my mistakes.

[thetalady]

Yeah, as of now I know about six members of one of the sororities (Andy Hurley as I coded it, I believe) and I talk to them daily. I'm an executive officer (read: leadership position) in our school's Paranormal Investigation group and a member of our pagan club, I have a 2.8 GPA and volunteer at my home town's humane society and help with fund raising on campus whenever I can by donating to other events and such when clubs host them. I also went out and bought all new clothes for rush so I can dress better, and I've been working on conversation skills.

And in reply to KSUViolet06, my Gamma Chi did later tell me we had almost 180 girls rushing - there was no way everyone was going to make it past house tours and it's possible I was part of just a very large round of cuts. I figured the computer thing was them just telling me a lie to soothe me, but in reality I'm so hard on myself I had it drilled through me head they must've just not liked me or I didn't stand out enough.

This time around in Spring I'm determined to fix my mistakes.

Do you know how many of the 180 girls who participated in rush ended up in chapters? I am just wondering if quota at your campus is pretty small.