my rush thread

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by aephi alum
My apologies to the AXOs out there, but in rereading this thread just now, the first thing that popped into my mind was:

"Together Let Us Seek The Frosh"

Hehe, that sounds like a good fraternity rush slogan. It's certainly better than "Freshman girls: get em while they're skinny"

I think SigEp would be a good quote also: "Virtue, Diligence, and Freshmanly Love"

[lauralaylin]

Originally posted by polarpi
I understand about not wanting "lopsided" class sizes (believe me, almost every class at my chapter was lopsided, and this year will be the hardest one!), but at the same time you don't know the specifics of when a student will graduate.

That is true, but it's also assuming that they will be active as a super senior. I obviously don't know how things are in other sororities, but in Alpha Phi sisters can go alum after their 4 years in school. I've seen sisters stay longer, but often times they feel old and want to move on. I think if the potential new member indicates that she wants to be active until she graduates, even if it is longer than four years, that would make a difference. But not all older rushees to let us know that so it's hard to assume.

That has got to be a new rule. Because even in my Senior year, every house was accepting sophmores and quite a few even juniors. It was something like, Juniors and Seniors didint count for towards total. They were considered freebies. But most houses didnt take them beacuse they felt they didnt have that much time to contribute.
Designergal is right thought when she says MANY of the popular houses have high de-active rates though.
Either way, go in thinking with an open and positive attitude for all the houses. Reps, where good or bad can be misleading. Think friends for life, not for an hour. GO BLUE!

[polarpi]

Originally posted by lauralaylin
That is true, but it's also assuming that they will be active as a super senior. I obviously don't know how things are in other sororities, but in Alpha Phi sisters can go alum after their 4 years in school. I've seen sisters stay longer, but often times they feel old and want to move on. I think if the potential new member indicates that she wants to be active until she graduates, even if it is longer than four years, that would make a difference. But not all older rushees to let us know that so it's hard to assume.

In ADPi they can go alum status after four years...my chapter, we had many sisters who remained active after their fourth year so that they could give as much as they could to the chapter....you're right that it does depend on the chapter, and that a number of PNMs don't talk about staying active past their "senior" year, but I really feel that as more and more "older" PNMs are going through recruitment, this is something that we as sorority members need to ask and find out what their goals for involvement is....it's a two way street, they should feel open to talk to us about what their plans are, but we need to be interested enough in them to ask if they don't volunteer the information.

We had Mass Meeting for rush today. All the girls that hadn't registered yet got to sign up and we heard quick speeches from some of the panhel officers and then we broke into small groups to ask questions. In small group I found out a girl from my high school, also a sophmore, is rushing too! I guess she is only interested in 2 of the houses becasue she knows lots of girls in them, but at least I know someone else and I dont feel like the only sophmore going through.
I don't get to meet my rho omega until an hour before mixers start, and that is when I get to pick up my schedule. I haven't figured out what I'm going to use for each house, maybe colors or something with 15 types...

[Designergal3]

YAY!!!! I'm sooo excited for your rush to start! I'm soo excited to read you're thread coz its a Michigan thread and especially coz you're from my hometown!!

*does a dance*

[SigK_Bama]

Originally posted by Silverblue
A chapter at my alma mater ran a classified ad in the student paper today that read something like: "Who are all those cute freshman girls? They're (insert chapter's name here)!" Sigh.

I saw that, too! My brother goes to that school, I saw the newspaper online. I thought the same thing.

[texas*princess]

Best wishes to you !!! I hope you have a wonderful time in recruitment!!!

[SparkliiQTMTSU]

Im so excited for you!!!!! I am definitly ready to hear all about this one have a great time!

Nichole

[UGAnchora]

Good luck! Maybe we'll get our 4th GC Delta Gamma pledge of the year!

[TriDeltaGal]

Good Luck! I'm so excited to hear how it goes!

[breathesgelatin]

*bump*

Rush starts today!

Rush Starts Today!!!
at 5:30 i have to go to my appointed spot to meet my rho omega and get my schedule for the first night of mixers and fill out the name cards we give to the last rusher we talk to. and at 6:30 the parties start. When the parties end at 10 we go and rank the houses. The thing i kind of dont like about this is that we dont know what houses we are visiting until we are already there.
I have class from 1-2 and I am coming back to my room for some intensive beautifying! I am going to restraigten my hair, paint my nails etc etc etc (and eat!). i am already getting butterflies in my stomach and im sure by the time rush starts they will be bats!

I've decided to use colors for the houses in no particular order:
Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Teal, Purple, Gray, Silver, Pink, Blue, Green, Brown, Black, Gold, Indigo

[Jill1228]

Good luck!

[polarpi]

Best of luck...we're all rooting for you!