Texas Daughter's Recruitment Thread!

[texasmom]

My daughter will be going through Rush in about a week at a large Texas school. We've both been reading GreekChat entries for the past few months and been thankful for all the previous posts describing the entire process. We are neophytes in this, and are sort of flying by the seat of our pants. She's obtained several letters of reference from some of my friends who are alumnae of the sororities on her campus, but she hasn't been able to obtain recs for every single sorority on campus. She registered with our local Panhellenic alumnae association (which is awesome, by the way!) and also attended a pre-Recruitment Event on campus last spring.

I guess you could say we're both trying to be cautiously optimistic about her chances. My daughter will be a freshman at a large Texas University this fall. She graduated from high school with a stellar GPA and participated in several extracurricular activities with positions of leadership. She has some community service on her resume also. We both realize that this certainly won't qualify her for automatic entry into any sorority. I'm her mother, and of course I'm biased, but I do think she presents herself very well. She is an attractive, personable and stylish girl. Her down side is that she has no legacy status. I wasn't in a sorority and neither were her older sisters.

She's adamant about going through the Recruitment process, though, and realizes that nothing is guaranteed. In any event, it should be a good experience for her. If she makes a few new friends, it will be worth it.

She asked me to start a thread to chronicle her experience. In honor of one of our favorite TV shows (which we've watched together for the past five seasons), we're naming the sororities for 12 of our favorite (and not-so-favorite) AMERICAN IDOL contestants/judges.

There are 12 sororities at her school. We're going to name them as follows: :

1. Kelly
2. Taylor
3. Katherine
4. Clay
5. Ruben
6. Fantasia
7. Ace (one of favorite eye-candy contestants, by the way)
8. Chris
9. Tamyra
10. Paula
11. Randy
12. Simon

After the recruitment process is complete, my daughter will post her thoughts. I'm going to be deliberately vague in some of the details until it's done (although there are many sharp GreekChatters out there and I'm sure they'll figure some things out).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks