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nittanygirl's recruitment story!!!
As per als463’s request, I have decided to share my recruitment story at Penn State.
Anyone on here who knows who I am/Knows bits and pieces of my story, please do not post anything that gives it away.
Freshman year, I knew I wanted to join a sorority, but having not yet found GC and not having any Greek relatives, I didn’t really know to research the different organizations on my campus. I ended up joining a service GLO. Service & a sorority? I thought it was the perfect combination.
Long story short, it didn’t turn out to be what I expected, so I planned on signing up for recruitment sophomore Fall semester. Still a member of my service group, there was a complication with us being asked to join a certain council on campus. I would not be able to be a member of both, but wasn’t entirely ready to give up on my service group (afterall, we were doing some great service projects). I could not sign up for recruitment. After it was determined that we could not join, I went through Spring Recruitment (2010) as a sophomore.
This Spring was a very unusual one for recruitment at PSU. Total had recently been raised, so all but two groups were participating in recruitment (17 total) but most were taking less than 7 members. There were about 300 girls going through!
The chapters participating were:
1) Kappa Delta
2) Sigma Sigma Sigma
3) Pi Beta Phi
4) Phi Mu
5) Alpha Omicron Pi
6) Delta Gamma
7) Delta Zeta
8) Alpha Sigma Alpha
9) Zeta Tau Alpha
10) Alpha Phi
11) Kappa Alpha Theta
12) Alpha Xi Delta
13) Sigma Kappa
14) Chi Omega
15) Alpha Chi Omega
16) Alpha Delta Pi
17) Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa & SDT would not be participating. Since there were so many chapters, we had an structured informal recruitment, where we had to go (on our own timing) to 5 or 6 houses three nights in a row, then were invited back to up to three for parties on Saturday or Sunday.
Since I LOVE Food Network, I will be naming my chapters after Food Network Chefs/Personalities.
In no particular order:
Tyler Florence
Ted Allen
Robert Irvine
Artie Sequeria
Morimoto
Cat Cora
Anne Burrell
Michael Symon
Ina Garten
Duff Goldman
Guy Fieri
Giada
Melissa d’Arabian
Bobby Flay
Rachel Ray
Paula Deen
Sandra Lee
So we were assigned 5 or 6 chapters a night in I think 3-4 hours depending on the night, based on their suite locations. We had to go ourselves, and manage our own time-limits at the parties (without clocks or phones this was rough because I didn’t have a watch.
My first night I went to: Sandra Lee, Rachel Ray, Michael Symon, Paula Deen, & Bobby Flay
Sandra Lee
– This was my first chapter. I decided to go here first (we could go in whatever order we wanted as long as we made it to all the houses). I enjoyed my conversations here with girls. Some of the girls seemed nervous talking to me. Some conversations seemed slightly forced. I talked for awhile with the recruitment chair here and she was so sweet! Then there was a fire drill right in the middle of the party! Luckily they knew ahead of time and handled it very well (despite it being January!)
Rachel Ray
– I knew this to be a “top” chapter on campus. I really didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did! I had a great time talking to girls here. I never ran into the girls I knew in this chapter during the party though. All in all, I was really surprised at the good conversations I had here.
Michael Symon
– I really wanted to like this chapter. It was one I liked a lot before recruitment, but didn’t know anyone in. They had a cute video, but I felt ignored by everyone I tried to talk to. Kind of disappointing.
Paula Deen
– I knew multiple girls in this chapter from my major. I walked in and immediately knew someone in an executive position here. I talked to her and had a great conversation with all of them. I really liked their philanthropy. I thought this was a definite maybe. I also thought it might be kind of awkward to join here when I knew how close most of the girls my age already are.
Bobby Flay
– I REALLY wanted to like it here and was VERY disappointed. I wanted to save my favorite (hopeful) for last so I wouldn’t have to limit my time, but by the time I got here, the girls just seemed really worn out and were just sitting around the suite. No very memorable conversations here except one girl was a twin.
After my first night I liked (but we didn’t rank until night 3):
Rachel Ray
Paula Deen
Sandra Lee
Bobby Flay
Michael Symon
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