recruitment advice
by: @PNMs
Recruitment is a week of mutual selection, but as a PNM, you will be doing less of the selecting. Many of you will be "released" (cut) by sororities you love and that you think love you.
At that point you have 2 options. First, you can drop out of recruitment and hope that next year you will be magically invited into the sorority of your dreams. That isn't going to happen. There's only a 1 in 1,000 chance that a house that released you as a freshman would ever want to keep you as a sophomore. Nothing your mom or the alumna president from your hometown can do will change things.
Second, you can look at the houses you do have invites to and realize that those are the houses that want YOU! You can push the reset button and look carefully at those houses and make your choice from among the ones that want you. Tier doesn't matter. Every nat'l sorority is high some places and low other places
The truth is that all houses have beauties, smart girls, party girls, heavy girls, pageant girls, engineering girls, dancers, blondes, tall girls, athletes, sweet girls, mean girls, and perfect girls. In every house, IF YOUR HEART IS WILLING, you will find your best friends and future bridesmaids.
Of course, you may find friends like that in the dorm or apartment, but that's more rare. And if you do drop out, you'll miss greek life in Alabama which is spectacular! Each house is actually respected and loved by the other houses. (The hatred you see here is largely manufactured by greekrank.)
Comment#3 by: suggestion
I think this is great advice. I love being a part of greek life and the ranking of my house doesn't matter to me. My house is somewhere in the middle and I don't care that it's not number 1. I can't speak for guys, but I would imagine it's the same. My dad went to another university and he attends alum events here even though he didn't go here. I think they're pretty friendly and he likes the guys he's met.
#5 by: most impt
The most important thing is to be in a house. I'm completely convinced that anyone can find a place in any house if they put their mind (and heart) into it. Some girls can't because they can't get over the fact that they were cut and just keep on feeling bad about it.
#8 by: Lexi
I got released from my legacy house and most of the ones that everyone talks about over a 2 day period. I was devastated. I did want to be greek, though, so I chose from the houses that I still had and am completely happy. This is a house where I can really be myself and people will still love me for who I am. Looking back, the other houses were houses that I thought would make me a "better" person. I know now that I would have been a DIFFERENT person because I would have had to change so much to fit in. So I agree. Choose the house that wants you the most!
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