A Hunger Games Recruitment

[love2read]

I do have an account under a different name, I opened up a new one so that I could be honest about something that happened during this recruitment story, that I wouldn’t be able to be honest about with my regular username. Please do not PM me and ask me to give you my regular username, because I won’t.

I wrote a recommendation for a PNM, who I shall call Lucy.

The chapters at Clemson are:

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

As I haven’t seen a Hunger Games recruitment thread yet, I decided it was high time for one. The order of the characters in no way reflects the order of the chapters.

Katniss
Peeta
Primrose
Haymitch
Cinna
Gale
Johanna
Beetee
Cato
Wiress
Glimmer
Rue

Recruitment started on the 22nd. Lucy visited 6/12 houses this day.
Lucy didn’t have much to say about the houses in general except for Haymitch. She got in the round and they were all fairly nice and all of a sudden she realized she had to use the really bad. She had been drinking plenty of water. When she mentioned it to the active she was talking too, the active gave her a disgusted look.

When she informed me of this situation occurring, I became incredibly upset as Haymitch is my sorority. I didn’t know what to do. I finally broke down and contacted a close sister/friend of mine and explained the situation, asking for her advice. She told me that I should contact the recruitment advisor because the active should never have treated a PNM that way.

I did contact the recruitment advisor and explained the situation, she thanked me for contacting her.

[love2read]

Lucy called me this morning and we discussed her schedule. She was a bit upset because she hadn’t been invited back to the possible 9. I’m thinking “oh god she got really heavy cuts”, she was invited back to 8. She was just comparing herself to her roommate who actually had to “drop” a house or two (she was invited back to more than 9). I told her that she got a GREAT schedule and that she should be thrilled to being invited back to 8. I told her that I could almost guarantee that some one in her group didn’t get that many. I then asked her who invited her back and what she thought about all of them going into this next round.

She was invited back to...

Peeta: she said that she felt comfortable at this house and that the girls were really easy to talk to.

Primrose: she actually liked that this chapter is a bit on the smaller side. She felt that they were also really easy to talk to.

Gale: one of her favorites after the first round. She felt special because the president came up and introduced herself and she had heard that that is a “good sign”. She did rank them in her bottom 3.

Johanna: her roommate is in this chapter, so she really likes them.

Cato: she ranked this chapter in the bottom. She was kind of bummed to see them on her list again for this round. I asked her why and she said that the conversations were strained for her. I advised her to keep an open mind.

Wiress: she also ranked Wiress as on her bottom chapters. Just like Cato, I advised her to keep an open mind.

Glimmer: Glimmer is her favorite so far. She loves everything about this chapter. She feels incredibly comfortable in this house. She said that she feels that she could be her “silly, goofy” self in this chapter.

Rue: Lucy didn’t have much to say about Rue. I’m not sure if they just weren’t memorable to her or what.

Before we hung up, I encouraged her to have a great day and to just keep an open mind.

[love2read]

Lucy gave me a call this evening to let me know how her round went.

Primrose- she said this house was “okay” and felt that the conversations were forced.

Glimmer- she still LOVES this house, but had a oop’s moment. She didn’t realize until the end of the party that she was chewing gum the entire party. She is worried that she will be dropped because of it. I encouraged her not to think that way and I wouldn’t be surprised if what happened to her has 1) happened to other PNM’s and 2) to the actives. I told her that they probably didn’t even notice.

Gale- Lucy was actually glad to have had a chance to talk to the sisters from this chapter again. She liked them a lot more today.

Johanna- Lucy said that her party with Johanna was interesting because her roommate was the one who “picked her up”. The laughed about it, because it was random, as the chapter doesn’t know they are roommates. They “pretended” that they didn’t know each other. Lucy was a bit paranoid that they would get caught. Again, I advised her not to stress about it too much, because I think her roommate will vouch for her.

Rue- she felt like they could have cared less about her.

Peeta- Peeta is another of her favorites. She felt that the girls are really friendly and they had good conversations.

Cato & Wiress- she felt that the conversations with these two chapters were drawn out, hard to get going and there was a lot of silence.

Lucy can be invited back to a maximum of 6 parties tomorrow. She plans to rank Cato, Wiress.

She is worried about not getting invited back to 6 parties. She mentioned that last year she was only invited back to 3 in this round.

I then gave her the positive to it, that of the 8 chapters she went back to, there are really only 2 that she cannot see herself in right now and that is Cato and Wiress. I also told her that if she happens to see Cato and Wiress on her party schedule tomorrow that she needs to look at it this way “they see something in you that makes them feel that you would make an excellent Cato and Wiress” and that she has only met a small portion of the chapter. Once I put it in those terms, she was like “your right”. She is still nervous, understandably.

She gets her schedule tomorrow at 6am (man that is god awful early). I told her to call me, if she needs to, as soon as she got her schedule.

[greekxgal]

I cannot believe the member of that one house did that to the poor PNM! I can definitely empathize. Even fairly recently, as an active, I almost had to signal to one of my sisters to come talk to my PNM for me once because I seriously thought I was going to have an...errm...issue right there! It was pretty scary, because I was tryingto make a good impression, of course. I ended up sitting through, but I know that I would not want to have someone making faces at me/judging me because I needed to use the restroom!

[clemsongirl]

Woohoo another Clemson story! I hope Lucy is happy with her schedule today!

[ASUADPi]

I hope your PNM has a wonderful day today love2read.

You have a bit more guts than I do, I'm not sure I'd have the guts to call and tell the advisor what happened. I wouldn't want to get anyone in trouble.

[honeychile]

So Haymitch didn't give her a second chance. How terribly, terribly sad.

Am I a horrible person if I hope she becomes Panhel President in time?

[love2read]

Honeychile- that would be pretty awesome wouldn't it!

greekxgal- I know it is hard to imagine that an active could treat a PNM that way.

Round 3

Lucy texted me an let me know that she was invited back to 6 houses! Yeah! She was invited back to...

Primrose
Gale
Johanna
Cato
Wiress
Rue

She was a bit disappointed that Peeta and Glimmer had released her but overall she was happy with her schedule.

I encouraged her to have fun and to remember that Cato and Wiress see something special in her, as do all the chapters that invited her back.

Lucy texted me when all the parties were over for the day (late night as she texted me after 10pm), she indicated that the day had been hectic but that the day went well.

Preference Night is tonight and tomorrow night with bid day being on Wednesday.

[Sciencewoman]

That's great!

Do you think it's possible that the Haymitch rusher thought she was blowing off their chapter by asking to use the rest room during that party? Not excusing her "look of disgust," but it's possible she interpreted it that way at first blush, and didn't realize it was a real emergency.

[love2read]

Sciencewoman, she actually didn't ask if she could use the restroom, she just said that she needed to use the restroom. I'm not sure if the PNM's can just leave in the middle of parties.

Lucy just texted me and told me that she has been invited back to Primrose, Gale, and Rue for preference.

What I LOVE is that her opinion of Rue has changed over the course of recruitment. On the first two rounds she wasn't sure about Rue. She thought they weren't too interested in her and the conversations were lacking. Now she is over the moon that Rue and Gale are two of the chapters she will pref!

I am so excited for her!

Question though, if she maximizes her options and lists all three chapters on her bid card is she guaranteed a bid in one of the three? If so, I know that she will be Greek and that she will be a new member of one of those three chapters and I couldn't be happier for her.

Now to figure out what gift to give her. I plan on doing some research on gifts for those three chapters and have an idea (what to get her).

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by love2read

Sciencewoman, she actually didn't ask if she could use the restroom, she just said that she needed to use the restroom. I'm not sure if the PNM's can just leave in the middle of parties.

Lucy just texted me and told me that she has been invited back to Primrose, Gale, and Rue for preference.

What I LOVE is that her opinion of Rue has changed over the course of recruitment. On the first two rounds she wasn't sure about Rue. She thought they weren't too interested in her and the conversations were lacking. Now she is over the moon that Rue and Gale are two of the chapters she will pref!

I am so excited for her!

Question though, if she maximizes her options and lists all three chapters on her bid card is she guaranteed a bid in one of the three? If so, I know that she will be Greek and that she will be a new member of one of those three chapters and I couldn't be happier for her.

Now to figure out what gift to give her. I plan on doing some research on gifts for those three chapters and have an idea (what to get her).

Good for her! She kept an open mind and found a group that she really liked. She might have missed it, if she decided too quickly.

Good luck to your daughter!

[Sciencewoman]

Can't wait to hear where she finds her home! She should be OK, if she lists all 3 chapters on her card.

[love2read]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Good for her! She kept an open mind and found a group that she really liked. She might have missed it, if she decided too quickly.

Good luck to your daughter!

She isn't my daughter . Ironically though if I had a child at 15 she could be. That is just bit freaky to me. LOL.

She is a good friend of my cousin, whom I have met and wrote a rec for. We have been keeping in touch throughout the process.

[love2read]

I spoke to Lucy this afternoon. She is so excited about pref night. She then started asking me about how "cuts" work tonight. I had to smile because it thrilled me to be able to tell her that I "am" 99% sure that as long as she maximizes her options and lists all three chapters on her bid card then she will receive a bid in one of the three.

I could hear over the phone her "shock" (lack of a better word). She was like "no way". I was like "yeah really". She even go more excited. I told her that one of those chapters would be her future home.

Lucy got giddy with excitement.

She asked about what to expect from pref and even a bit about how bid matching works (which I gave a very rough generalization).

The only thing that seems weird is that Clemson does two nights of pref rounds. Lucy received 3 invites, is the max 4? Either way she is content and happy and right now that is what matters!

[clemsongirl]

The max is three at Clemson, I can tell you that much. I think the reason Clemson does two nights of pref rounds is because they're trying to keep the pref locations in only a couple of places instead of spreading them all across campus, but I could be completely talking out of my butt here. With floors of dorms that don't have enough space for recruitment it can make scheduling parties a little difficult.

I hope Lucy has fun at pref tonight and tomorrow night! Maybe we'll end up being sisters, who knows? I cannot wait to find out what chapter she joins!