NWgirl's Fall '07 Recruitment at University of Washington!

[northwestgirl]

Hello Everyone!

I’m 10 days away from starting recruitment at the University of Washington and I am so excited! I feel like I’ve been dreaming about this for the past two years! There is no Greek in my family but nonetheless I have always envisioned my college years spent at one of the amazing chapters at UW. I wanted to first say thank you for all the amazing posts and advice that I have gotten from this site, I feel now more prepared than ever for recruitment. As I’m sure many of you know there are 16 chapters at UW.

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Pi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha

I would also like to take a moment to introduce myself! I’m an incoming freshman and participated in Greek Weekend last spring (an opportunity for women interested in Greek life to spend a weekend at a chapter, and visit half of the other chapters over a two day period…throughout the week it was stressed to us how they were promoting the idea of going through formal recruitment, never their particular chapter). I graduated with honors from my high school which is only about 20 min away from campus. I was involved with Student Council, Dance, NHS…and much more. I guess the most important question is why I want to join a sorority. And really, I can’t really pinpoint one answer. I’m looking forward to the community of women who will support, encourage, challenge and guide me through not only these next for years, but also for a lifetime. I’ve researched, and there are some of the chapter’s philanthropies that really hit home for me, so of course, that interest me as well. I have about 5 good friends that are going through recruitment with me, and we’re all pretty much nervous wrecks. We’ve all decided that we’re not going to talk about our impressions or rankings throughout the week; we think that’s the only way to make sure we all end up happy.

We also knew that recommendations weren’t really a big deal at UW, even the actives we talked to at Greek Weekend agreed, but even so we’ve all reached out and gotten a few. I have three to chapters that I all really admire; all from women who have known me my entire life. If anything else, I figure it can’t hurt!

More to Come! Your continued advice is most welcome!