Recruitment Information

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RECRUITMENT

Recruitment is one of the most fun parts of joining a sorority. I will tell you a little bit about how it worked where I go to school; I hear it is very similar at every school. You will first be given a recruitment counselor after you sign up on-line. You will be paired with a group of about 10 girls. You will then meet with them and get to know them. At your school they will probably have a place where sorority events go on; your group will go there along with tons of other groups of girls who will be going through recruitment.

Each day, different events occur. You go to about 4 houses a day to look at them and see if you like them. You pick what houses are your favorite at the end of each day and the houses can also drop you at any time. The first day is going on house tours just to take a look at the houses and talk to girls in the house to see if you like them and if they like you. The second day is learning about their philanthropy and it is a little bit longer. You watch movies and they give you an exercise to do invonving their philanthropy. The lasy day is the most formal. At mine, all the girls had to wear a black dress. You then decide if you want to stick with the sorority you have been with the whole time or if you want a different one. This is the mose serious day of all because it is getting closer to when you have to decide which sorority you will choose. At the end of the last day, you put down your number one pick. You can also put down a second choice just incase your number one doesn't pick you.

The next night all of the girls meet and there are envelopes on all of the tables with every girls name on it. They tell everyone to open the envelopes at the same time, and it is then when you see if you got the sorority you wanted or not. It is a great feeling when you see the same you wanted to see since day one. You then run around finding other girls that got picked in the same sorority as you. When I did it, we all ran to our sorority house together screaming and when we got there it was a huge welcoming party for us with food. We all talked and got to know each other and see the house again.

I personally did not like the whole idea of recruitment because I felt like it wasn't me. It almost felt a bit fake to me; but maybe that is only because I was talking to so many people and got asked the same question so many times. A lot of girls don't like recruitment, and if you don't like the idea of it you should wait until your sophomore year to see if it is really something you would want to do. By doing this, you will get to see what kind of reputation each sorority has a little better and them make a decision off of what you know.