My live recruitment story :) !!

[pnm12345]

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[srmom]

And so it begins...

Well, Best of Luck to you!

Please let us know how it goes.

[Benzgirl]

Good luck tonight. Don't listen to the stereotypes and keep an open mind

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by pnm12345

Hi everybody! I have been SO excited about recruitment and reading all of YOUR stories and I am so happy that I finally get to share MINE! Rush starts tonight.

So let me start off by telling you about the sororities at my school. My school is pretty big, so not a large percentage of students are in sororities. It is definitely not necessary to be in a sorority to have a social life here, but if you're a certain type of girl who wants to do a certain type of thing (go to formals, become really close with a big group of girls) then they are pretty necessary. In all honestly, there are so many nerds at my school (sorry-it's true!) that it has been hard to find girls with whom I have a lot in common. So I have been wanting to join a sorority basically since I got here and have hardly been able to wait until second semester to start!

So there are eight sororities at my school. I'm going to name them after different sodas. I will tell you the sometimes brutal and extreme reps these sororities have at my school, which are definitely not based off of the girls I know in the sororities. Here they are:

Dr Pepper: blond, tall, skinny girls with big boobs; in years past known as the prettiest, girly girls, although people say last year's pledge class wasn't as good as usual; also the sorority with southerners
Diet Coke: the mysterious, high fashion girls from NYC, said to have had the best pledge class last year
Mountain Dew: known as a pretty good sorority with cool girls, has gotten a lot better and more popular in recent years; athletic, "fratty" girls with beer bellys who are slutty
Pepsi: Dr Pepper wannabes, boring, but nice and cute, "marriage material"
7 up: the Jewish sorority, some good girls, some bad, all united by the fact that they are Jewish
Root beer: not such a good sorority, known as energetic girls and wannabe sluts
Sprite: no description or reputation really, which says something itself, people don't even really know it exists
Orange soda: the worst sorority of them all. ugly, fat girls, probably going to lose their charter here soon

So those are the reputations that I know of each sorority. Since I've been interested in joining a sorority from the time I got to my school, I have cultivated a lot of knowledge about the ones at my school. I have talked to other PNMs, read all the reps of the sororities online, and am especially influenced by the guys at my school that I know (most of whom are older than me) who automatically say--"you're going to be in Dr Pepper, right?" Especially my boyfriend--all the girls he knows are in Dr Pepper and he completely does not understand why I wouldn't be in it. I spent winter break buying clothes, reading all about rush online, whitening my teeth, and before I came I had my hair and nails done.

I am all ready! And it's tonight!

I am really going to try to go in with an open mind regardless of what I've heard. Anyway, I'll tell you how it goes!

I usually don't do this, but QFP. It will be interesting to see how this PNM sees each chapter as she meets them, compared to the "common" stereotypes.

[pnm12345]

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[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by pnm12345

7 up was last for the night. I didn't expect to like this one but I ended up liking it a lot. The girls were nice and we had really good conversations. I'm just unsure because I'm not Jewish so I think they will probably cut me.

Note: Traditionally Jewish sororities don't always cut girls who aren't Jewish.

[Shellfish]

Hmmm. I think I know which school this is, but I'll keep my mouth shut. If I'm right, it'll be interesting to hear what the current chapters are like. Mine closed several years ago, and I was an alumna advisor for a while after graduation, during which time there were a lot of changes in the Panhellenic there.

[ThetaDancer]

Best of luck to you today, pnm!

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Note: Traditionally Jewish sororities don't always cut girls who aren't Jewish.

^^^^Exactly what KSUViolet said.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Note: Traditionally Jewish sororities don't always cut girls who aren't Jewish.

What she said.

(alum of traditionally Jewish sorority here)

Good luck today and stay warm!

[GammaPhi88]

I can't tell you how many non-Jewish girls I know in the historically Jewish sororities.

hijack/

Is it just me, or have soda names become really popular code names lately?

/end hijack

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by GammaPhi88

hijack/

Is it just me, or have soda names become really popular code names lately?

/end hijack

Cause y'all are so bubbly?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by pnm12345

Orange soda was next. I even kept an open mind going into this one although it has such a widely known, bad reputation. The decorations were very cute. However, the girls were honestly SO AWKWARD--it was horrible. I was doing the best I could to keep every conversation going and they were just standing there, often in silence. As I walked away, it made me nervous that I might never find a sorority where I really belong.

So, were Orange Soda ACTUALLY ugly and fat, or just awkward? I mean, I've seen some gorgeous girls that couldn't make conversation with a gun to their head.

[oclady21]

and soo..


what happened?

[pnm12345]

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