My University of Southern California recruitment :)

[kaeb]

Bumping this thread from eons ago, but I just wanted to update everyone who followed my story.

I'm now a senior, and trying to soak up every last minute of being in Sigma Delta Tau. Like everyone else who has ever been in a sorority, I'm sure, my experience has been full of ups and downs, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I'm actually really glad that I documented my crazy journey through formal recruitment. I went back and re-read it a couple weeks ago, and my perspective is now so colored by my experiences as a sister that it's really cool to go back and see what I thought before I joined.

By the way—that girl who walked me back to my dorm from my first Sig Delt event? She's now my surrogate grand-big and one of my closest sisters.

In retrospect, I now find it funnier than ever that, during formal recruitment, I said, "I don't really see myself taking on a leadership position in a sorority." The semester after I joined, I was elected to a chair position, which I held for three semesters. I was elected to a fourth semester as that chair, but gave it up to serve on the chapter's executive board.

And the ultimate kicker?

For 2013, I was/am Vice President of Formal Recruitment for Sigma Delta Tau and helped our chapter participate in all of formal recruitment for the first time since 2009.

[FSUZeta]

Yay!!! Thank you for coming back and updating us. Can't believe you are a senior.

[DubaiSis]

That makes me feel old. But I'm glad you're doing well and the chapter is too! Did you guys do ok in the more formal format?

[33girl]

I don't know why this thread turned into a pile-on. What kaeb is doing makes perfect sense to me.

She went through a super emotional rush and is aware she may not have been fully open to accept something a great group (AXO) had to offer because her judgement was clouded by getting rejected by groups she thought liked her. She's not going to take a bid just because she can and take it away from someone who really wants it when she's still shellshocked and having doubts. If AXO has changed their minds about her in the intervening week, that's their decision, one that it sounds like kaeb would fully understand.

And I'm not saying this to be bitchy or mean or anything and I'm not trying to offend AXO, but when a chapter is struggling and they invite girls to events it doesn't necessarily mean they do it because they feel the girls are a "good fit." The chapters that she needs to give the "benefit of the doubt" are the ones who cut her because they feel she WOULDN'T have fit. If you can accept that their judgement is right it's easier to look at the options that you still have open.

[twinkle555]

Originally Posted by Jen

I think as long as kaeb is aware that saying "not right now" may mean missing the opportunity to go Greek, and is fine with that possibility, then no one here really needs to judge her decisions.

This was what I was trying to stress. Kaeb, if your OK with potentially not getting a bid at all then I agree with your decision. I wish you nothing but the best!