my recruitment experience so far

[kddani]

Originally Posted by lilsunshine214

You might want to be careful about what they're saying. It might have "slipped" or they might have wanted you to com to Pref, but only tomorrow can tell. Also, a lot of what they said could be considered dirty rushing.

Not to mention the fact that pref invite lists aren't figured out until AFTER the parties!

[Regina Filangie]

I'm glad you really like Teal so much! Hopefully it will work out for you!

But I do want to echo what everyone else said that nothing is a guarantee until the bid is in your hand. We had a girl a few years ago go through rush, we all really liked her and she was one of those "it" girls that every house wanted. She had a cousin in another house, which we knew, but we were happy to see that she seemed to have an open mind and when pref night came she went to us and her cousins' house. On bid day she got a bid from us, not her cousins' house. Obviously nobody knows for sure what happened but I'm assuming she wasn't cut but it was just a numbers thing. She probably wasn't as high up on their list as she had thought she would be and their house had made quota by the time they got to her name so she got her second choice (us). She came to bid day but cried the entire time, then left before the bid night party even started. Her cousin even tried to pusuade her to stick with it for at least a few weeks and told her that we were a great house but she absolutely refused to come back. She rushed again the next year and that time she was dropped from every house because they all knew what she had done the year before and none of the other houses wanted to waste their time when she obviously just wanted her cousins' house. Her cousins' house had been turned off by her attitude towards us, and her cousin had graduated, so they didn't offer her a bid either. She ended up transferring mid- semester that year and I never heard what happened to her.

So anyway, I don't want to scare you but just don't assume that you're in just because everyone tells you how much they want you to be their sister. Unfortunatly that's part of rush, all the sisters will tell you how much they like you because they want you to keep accepting their invitations either until bid day or until they decide they don't want to invite you back anymore. Keep an open mind towards the other houses and just remember that anything could happen on bid day. Most importantly, I know you said you really like red also but deep down if you know you would only accept a bid from teal don't list other houses on your bid card. I know everyone advises against suiciding but it really hurts the sisters in the other houses if you don't want to be there. But with that said good luck and I hope you get what you want!

[PeppyGPhiB]

Also, although membership selection for each sorority is private, you should be aware that it's quite possible no one member knows what the other members think about you. Take what they're saying with a grain of salt.

[Denise_DPhiE]

I need a TUMS waiting for her to post again!!!

[lacavazzini]

this morning i had invites back to teal, pink and orange!!!!!
went to teal and pink so far. going to orange at 7:55.

ranking them in this order deff:
1. teal
2. pink
3. orange

may not rank orange because i wouldnt accept a bid from them.

[LOVEinZTA]

Good luck with everything!

You know, there are some people that definitely try to sugarcoat everything in their stories on here. While others may not think so, I find it mildly refreshing that you're so straightforward! I hope everything goes well for you!

[Stef the Pef]

YAY! Good luck, and I'm glad there's a couple on your list you really like!

[AXObuckeye]

Originally Posted by lacavazzini

i already know ive been invited back for pref. accidentally slipped out, will confirm tomorrow morning when i can tell for sure which 3 im invited back to. had the best conversations and girls kept slipping things like next yr we can or this summer we want you to live with us. loveeeee them. deff still on top by far.

i'm sorry, but that kind of thing doesn't "just slip out," especially more than once. i would be wary of their methods.

i'm not trying to break your self-esteem or claim that they dont truly like you, but i have seen girls get very hurt because of dirty rushing. happens every year at Ohio State, and that chapter usually has a lot of girls depledge anyway.

again, if you honestly feel like it's right, go for it. we can't assume anything, positive or negative. but what i can say is this is all too familiar and shady to me. i call it like i see it.

now that i have my warning out of the way, i want to say good luck to you sweetie, and i hope everything goes well!

[LOVEinZTA]

ooh ooh, anything yet?

wow, I am so impatient, haha.

[Mercergirl2010]

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Originally Posted by Mercergirl2010

No news yet??? I wanna know what happened!

Being that it's been six days since her last post, we can at least assume one of the following:

a) She received a bid and has been too busy to update GC because she's having way too much fun with her new sisters

or

b) Bid day didn't go as she hoped and doesn't want to face GC. (We've seen it before)

[EGAOPi]

I'm hoping that all went well with bid day and I hope you read this and end up posting and telling us the outcome.

Like the other girls said, what teal said should NOT have been said. They will definitely get violations for saying those sorts of things. Of course, it feels great to have promises made by a sorority that you love, but dirty rushing isn't fair to you, other PNMs, or the chapter itself.

I hope you got a bid from a sorority you loved, but even if you got a bid from one that wasn't teal, I hope you chose/choose to stick it out. Like others before me have said, you will end up where you belong. It may not seem right at first, but everything will fall into place and you will realize why that was meant to be your home all along.

Hope you come back to GC, at least for one last time.

[AXiDGirl10]

I hope things went well, too. I really wanted to know what happened...

[dzjessdz]

maybe she didn't want to reveal teal and get them in trouble? hard to tell.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by dzjessdz

maybe she didn't want to reveal teal and get them in trouble? hard to tell.

You don't have to be a genius to figure out which sorority teal is.