Mississippi Sorority Recruitment 2015 - Page 9

Hartofsec · #1 10-04-2015, 10:19 PM

What a awesome recruitment story -- real time even -- and the photos are truly the cherry on top!

Nolefan, your daughter is just precious. Many congrats to her!

Loyally Kappa -- how wonderful that you stood in and captured these memories for Nolefan and her daughter.

Great story

LIXO · #2 10-05-2015, 12:04 AM

I just love happy endings! What great pictures! Thank you for sharing- they really capture the festive mood of the day. LK, you were so nice to take these pictures for nolefan. My niece was so happy to receive her bid from ADPi today.

Football Fan · #3 10-05-2015, 01:46 AM

This is an image from Tri Delta. The two are sisters. The one on the left is a new pearl. It was another happy ending today.

sassymom · #4 10-05-2015, 08:25 AM

Quick update:

Congratulations to all the girls (OldOleMiss' friend's daughter, LIXO's niece, and nolefan's gorgeous daughter)! I'm glad they all ended up where they are happy, wanted to be, and belong. I wish them all the best sisterhood...more love and friendship than even they are expecting.

Loyally Kappa you are so wonderful to take photos and video for nolefan. You are a treasure

My daughter pledged Phi Mu! The best part was to see her so happy in her green headband and pink letter shirt yesterday. I can't believe I'm going to be able to call her my sister.

I have to wait for her to send me the photos I took on her phone before I can post any.

Off to meet PPP at Big Bad Breakfast! Thanks for the recommendations!

nolefan · #5 10-05-2015, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by sassymom

Quick update:...
My daughter pledged Phi Mu! The best part was to see her so happy in her green headband and pink letter shirt yesterday. I can't believe I'm going to be able to call her my sister. ....

Hooray!!! That is the best news!!!! How did I miss that you were a Phi Mu?? ME TOO!!! One of my daughter's closest friends on her hall also pledge Phi Mu, her name is Shelby and she is cute, cute, cute!!! I hope maybe you will come back here and give us some scoop on how she likes her pledge class. I am fascinated with how in the world they set up activities and get these girls together to help them bond as a pledge class and start feeling at home in their new houses (I remember those first couple weeks can be a bit awkward if you're not specifically meeting someone to eat lunch or just hang out together).

PLEASE post a photo

Kristy

hottytoddy · #6 10-05-2015, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by sassymom

Quick update:

My daughter pledged Phi Mu! The best part was to see her so happy in her green headband and pink letter shirt yesterday. I can't believe I'm going to be able to call her my sister.

I have to wait for her to send me the photos I took on her phone before I can post any.

Congrats to you both! I know she will love it! Our old rush advisor posted some pics of Bid Day on Facebook yesterday. I loved the hot pink bid day jerseys!!!

33girl · #7 10-05-2015, 11:45 AM

I wish that we could bottle the happiness and kindness in this thread.

jolene · #8 10-05-2015, 10:14 AM

Seeing the 'angel wing' hand signs I think I saw some Pi Phis this summer when we went up the Sears, er, Willis Tower. There were some beautiful blondes taking pictures while doing the same hand/angel thing.

I'm curious to see how Alpha Phi will do. When do they start recruitment?

Sciencewoman · #9 10-05-2015, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jolene

Seeing the 'angel wing' hand signs I think I saw some Pi Phis this summer when we went up the Sears, er, Willis Tower. There were some beautiful blondes taking pictures while doing the same hand/angel thing.

Since Pi Phi's convention was in Chicago in June, you probably saw some of the attendees!

From the mom of a Pi Phi, congratulations to the new angels! We just got back from Parents' Weekend at W&L and had a great time at the annual Pi Phi parents' reception. I even wore a Pi Phi sticker.

nolefan · #10 10-05-2015, 10:17 AM

Ladybug, thank you for your good wishes for my JB, I can't thank you enough for how welcome you made me feel on this forum and how helpful you've been. I feel blessed to have had the support I've found here and that my girl is beginning her sorority life with such a happy smile on her face. You can't tell, but she is full of happy tears standing in front of the bid day banner at Pi Phi. Makes me so thankful.

ladybug12 · #11 10-07-2015, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by nolefan

Ladybug, thank you for your good wishes for my JB, I can't thank you enough for how welcome you made me feel on this forum and how helpful you've been. I feel blessed to have had the support I've found here and that my girl is beginning her sorority life with such a happy smile on her face. You can't tell, but she is full of happy tears standing in front of the bid day banner at Pi Phi. Makes me so thankful.

nolefan, you are too kind! I am so glad that JB found her perfect home away from home.

I have visited Ole Miss 5 out of the past 6 years as a national officer. I have also been at Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU during that time frame and have found Ole Miss to be extremely welcoming to all PNMs. I think the tent talk happens on all campuses, not matter how competitive.

All of these campuses have made great progress at pledging quota for most if not all groups for the past 5 years, and "mass exits of PNMs" is greatly over-exaggerated. The loudest of tent talkers are ones who have their minds made up that only one or two of the 10-18 groups are worthy to pledge.

Indiana and Penn State have 25+% of PNMs either drop out or not be pledged. To me, that is a bigger issue than 100 of 1700 at Ole Miss being released or dropping out for whatever reason.

33girl · #12 10-09-2015, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ladybug12

Indiana and Penn State have 25+% of PNMs either drop out or not be pledged. To me, that is a bigger issue than 100 of 1700 at Ole Miss being released or dropping out for whatever reason.

I think Penn State has a good amount of women sign up at the last minute and then they drop out when they realize it's just not their bag. This isn't a culture of women who have been working on getting recs and connections since their junior year of high school. If it was, then yes, that number of dropouts would be cause for alarm.

Munchkin03 · #13 10-09-2015, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

I think Penn State has a good amount of women sign up at the last minute and then they drop out when they realize it's just not their bag. This isn't a culture of women who have been working on getting recs and connections since their junior year of high school. If it was, then yes, that number of dropouts would be cause for alarm.

Exactly.

hottytoddy · #14 10-10-2015, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

I think Penn State has a good amount of women sign up at the last minute and then they drop out when they realize it's just not their bag. This isn't a culture of women who have been working on getting recs and connections since their junior year of high school. If it was, then yes, that number of dropouts would be cause for alarm.

I agree with this too. I knew very few girls who dropped out completely after the first two rounds because they were cut from a particular group. I can think of two girls that left school though. One was cut completely and the other didn't get the one she wanted--though I think it was really not the one her mother wanted...she was happy on bid day, but her mother stayed in her ear. She left Ole Miss before she was initiated. I heard later that she transferred to another school and the same thing happened. I think she finally landed in one that was acceptable to her mother at her 3rd school. It was sad really. I can't imagine going through recruitment 3 times.

I had a very positive experience going through Ole Miss recruitment. Even though it was many years ago, the tent talk was probably just as bad then, if not worse. I wasn't sure two new colonizations would work at Ole Miss. I am glad to see that ADPi is doing well and I hope that Alpha Phi does well too. When I was there, it always seemed to me that much of the tent talk was from girls who were either from Mississippi, or from surrounding states that have a large number of enrolled students at Ole Miss. With out of state enrollment increasing, I think that has helped with the tent talk.

KDCat · #15 10-12-2015, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hottytoddy

I agree with this too. I knew very few girls who dropped out completely after the first two rounds because they were cut from a particular group. I can think of two girls that left school though. One was cut completely and the other didn't get the one she wanted--though I think it was really not the one her mother wanted...she was happy on bid day, but her mother stayed in her ear. She left Ole Miss before she was initiated. I heard later that she transferred to another school and the same thing happened. I think she finally landed in one that was acceptable to her mother at her 3rd school. It was sad really. I can't imagine going through recruitment 3 times.
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Not just going through recruitment 3 times, but giving up a spot in a sorority that you were happy with because your mother wasn't satisfied. Twice. That's terrible. (My mother was over-bearing, but she didn't have the slightest clue about Greek Life. Thank the Lord.)