My little sister's rush at UNH

[GreekGirl604]

My little sister is rushing at UNH and since I never got to write about my own rush experience, I decided to live vicariously through her…

She’s a sophomore right now and didn’t want to go through rush last year because she wanted to get herself settled into being away at college first. She actually didn’t want to rush until spring semester this year, but decided to go through formal recruitment since she’s already a sophomore and sometimes houses don’t take spring pledge classes.

The five houses she will be visiting are Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, and Kappa Delta. Since I am completely obsessed with Laguna Beach, I’m going to use names from the show to describe the houses.

Monday

Alex – The house was beautiful and the girls are really close with each other. They do almost everything together. They were really nice and didn’t seem fake. The house has a sleeping deck, which she liked, but it had bunk beds. The girls also get their own rooms downstairs where they have a desk, closet, etc. One of her friends who is in a frat told her that he doesn’t know anyone in this house and that they never really do anything with the frats, so she didn’t really like that.

Kristin – A few of her friends are in this house, so she already knew people when she got there. They didn’t really have any decorations up around the house or anything, so she didn’t like that. Also, they asked if she wanted a house tour and pretty much let her decide what she wanted to see, unlike the other houses. She felt like the 2 girls she talked to weren’t really listening, because they weren’t looking at her when she was talking. She said she didn’t really feel comfortable here.

Lauren – The house was absolutely gorgeous! They had a really big chapter room, which a lot of the girls use as a study lounge. There’s no sleeping deck, so all the girls have their own rooms which they can paint any color they want. They have mandatory study hours (10 a week compared to 6 for the other houses), which she really likes. She also really liked their philanthropies. The one thing she didn’t like is that she didn’t get to see the kitchen.

Tuesday

Jessica – She said the house kinda looked like a ski lodge…I’m not really sure what that means. This house also didn’t have a deck, but it did have a study lounge. They don’t require study hours if you have above a 3.5 (which she does) and she doesn’t like that. She’d rather have a set time where she does her work and this would make it easier for her. The 2 girls she talked to were really nice and she felt like they weren’t fake, but none of the girls in her Rho Psi group liked this house. She also heard a bad rumor about them from a girl who isn’t in a house. I told her to form her own opinions and that if you asked enough people you’d hear bad rumors about all the houses.

Taylor – She loved the decorations at this house and said it was beautiful. It’s the only house that serves breakfast every day and it’s made to order (the other houses only get lunch and dinner). They have a deck and a study lounge, but also have separate rooms for everyone to keep their personal stuff. She loved the fact that they had TiVo too. This house has the highest new member fees, but it’s the cheapest to live in once you become a sister. She loved the 3 girls she talked to at this house. The one thing she really didn’t like is that they took the house tour in large groups (about 15 people) and she felt it wasn’t very personal.

She had to cut her list down to the three she wanted to see today and she was having a really hard time doing it. I was on the phone with her for over an hour last night trying to help her decide.

She was pretty sure she didn’t want to go back to Kristin, but she couldn’t decide which of the other four to drop. They had to have their decisions in by 10:20 this morning and then they would find out then who invited them back. As of 9:30 she was going to go with Jessica, Lauren and Taylor. She said that she didn’t feel comfortable at Kristin the first night and she “didn’t want to take the risk of giving them another chance and if it sucked again then she would miss out on one she liked”, but she IMed me at 11:45 and told me that she decided to give Kristin another chance, so she ‘regretted with interest’ Alex and Jessica (she got invited back to all 5). She also said that one girl in her group didn’t get invited back to Kristin so she figured that’s good if they’re more selective.

So now I’m waiting to hear from her to see how tonight went. Preference is tomorrow and she’ll only get to go to two and then bids go out on Friday.