Weird rush stories

[lilzetakitten]

Guess I should add mine...

This year, I was a floater and went to talk to a PNM. Her first comment: "Ooh, I love your earrings! Are those real pearls?" She goes on to talk about her love of black pearls, and talked about the strand that her dad recently got her mom. She also talks about her love of diamonds. Then she goes, "Men getting you diamonds is like your consolation prize for getting old." My sister, whom the girl was actually paired with, goes, "Oh, no, they aren't always old! My big is getting married in June, she just graduated in December." PNM: "OMG, that's crazy! I can't believe she'd get married so young!!"

Did I mention that I'm engaged, and was wearing my ring through this entire exchange?

We cut her that night.

Also, we had a girl come through on pref who looked a mixture of pissed, disinterested, and in pain. She completely ignored the sister preffing her the whole time. She ended up going to another sorority... good luck with that one.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by lilzetakitten

Guess I should add mine...

This year, I was a floater and went to talk to a PNM. Her first comment: "Ooh, I love your earrings! Are those real pearls?" She goes on to talk about her love of black pearls, and talked about the strand that her dad recently got her mom. She also talks about her love of diamonds. Then she goes, "Men getting you diamonds is like your consolation prize for getting old." My sister, whom the girl was actually paired with, goes, "Oh, no, they aren't always old! My big is getting married in June, she just graduated in December." PNM: "OMG, that's crazy! I can't believe she'd get married so young!!"

Did I mention that I'm engaged, and was wearing my ring through this entire exchange?

We cut her that night.

Hey, maybe she didn't notice the ring. It IS a little odd nowadays to be getting married young..

[LainaIsPHIMU]

My story isn't all that crazy but..
It was my third night of formal recruitment (I was going through). I had been invited back to two chapters. I got dressed all nice, and walked over the the NPC suites where all the chapters are located. I went to the first suite for the first party and all went fine. Afterwards there was a 15 minute break, where we could stand outside under a tent. We then had to like up in alphabetical order and go into the suite at EXACTLY 3:00. it was timed to the tee. Well I was in the first suite, the sky got really nasty looking, so while we were outside we hoped it didn't start raining.
Well it did. It wasn't even a light drizzle. IT WAS POURING. There were three minutes left before we could enter the suites. Nobody had umbrellas.. The Gamma Chi's brought had like 5, and I was not able to fit under the one for my line of girls (about 30 people in line). So I stood out in pouring rain for 3 minutes.
When we were allowed into the suite, I was soaking wet. I was shivering from being cold, and just sat on the couch. They then procceded to give me ONE paper towel to "dry off" with.
It was an interesting party to say the least. Everyone kept coming up to me and apologizing the whole time, and asking if I was alright.
It was just water, but I think it got me noticed, I was invited back for pref night, and got a bid from them, and now I am a Phi Mu.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by lilzetakitten

Guess I should add mine...

This year, I was a floater and went to talk to a PNM. Her first comment: "Ooh, I love your earrings! Are those real pearls?" She goes on to talk about her love of black pearls, and talked about the strand that her dad recently got her mom. She also talks about her love of diamonds. Then she goes, "Men getting you diamonds is like your consolation prize for getting old." My sister, whom the girl was actually paired with, goes, "Oh, no, they aren't always old! My big is getting married in June, she just graduated in December." PNM: "OMG, that's crazy! I can't believe she'd get married so young!!"

Did I mention that I'm engaged, and was wearing my ring through this entire exchange?

We cut her that night.

I'd be more turned off by her talk about pearls and diamonds.

Given that this is a PNM, presumably a freshman, it probably sounded weird to her because she just finished high school; marriage sounds so far away to her.

It also depends on the region of the country, too. My little, who is the same age as me (graduated in May 07), got engaged in the fall of our junior year (September 05), but she's not getting married until June 09, so she will be 24. Based on hearing stories about her friends from home (Cincinnati), she's right on par or maybe a little late.

[carnation]

Let's hear more of these! Recruitment starts the second week of August, let's get fired up for it!

[Phine]

I have one that is a little more serious but still a weird story from recruitment...
My chapter is new on campus and we don't have a house in the Greek Village with the other sororities yet, so we used a room in dorm nearby for recruitment. The room was really hot on pref night. We were in the middle of the ceremony when all of a sudden one of the PNMs started to stagger around. No one had any idea what she was doing. She actually fainted because of nerves and heat. It was a pretty scary moment but she ended up to be okay. Now, we figure if we survived that incident during our first formal, we can make it through anything.

[ASTalumna06]

I went to Penn State Behrend in Erie, PA. It's a smaller campus of about 4500 students, and the male to female ratio does not work in favor of the sororities. We don't have formal recruitment, so people aren't "rushing" to join. We have to try and convince girls to come to recruitment events. So it's a struggle for the 3 sororities on campus to have large new member classes. Total is at 40, and I think one of the sororities has hit that once before. Since the time that I was a new member in Spring of 2004, I have never seen our chapter at more than 17 girls. Needless to say, when we have people come to recruitment events, it's a pretty big deal.

So a few years ago, before the school year had even started, our chapter had received an email from this girl who was transferring to our school. We'll call her Tina. So Tina is writing us back and forth, saying how she can't wait to get to school and come to our recruitment events. She says she's heard such great things about our sorority, and she's really looking forward to meeting us. So naturally, we're excited because we have someone interested who hasn't even arrived at school yet.

So she comes to the first recruitment party. And everything went well, but some of the girls indicated that she gave them a weird vibe. So then the next party happens. We don't have an official sorority house, but at the time, 4 of the sisters were living in an on-campus apartment, so we had the recruitment party there. The part of campus where the resident halls are is one giant hill, and the apartments are pretty much at the top of it. Halfway up the hill is the dorm where Tina lived. Now, the walk from her resident hall to the apartments is maybe 5 minutes (and there's even an elevator to take you up part of the way). Well, the second Tina gets to the event, she starts complaining, saying things like, "That hill is just too hard a walk to get to your recruitment parties", and "Why don't you have your parties in the student union building? That way I won't have to walk all the way up the hill?" ... seriously? I know this girl was a little bigger and it might have been a little harden for her, but you don't complain the second you walk in to a recruitment party, and you don't tell a sorority where they should have their events. Especially when you don't really know anyone.

And at the next event, which was in the student union building, she said "oh good, you girls decided to move your events down here," even though it had been planned for weeks. I guess she thought we moved it for her?

From then on, she would complain about everything, from the food we supplied to the activities we did. But she still kept coming to events (unfortunately for us, we can't just cut people). So when we voted on who would receive bids, she clearly did not get one. And our president talked to her privately about how we didn't extend her a bid. She was the only girl in the past 5 years who attended at least 2 recruitment parties that we didn't extend a bid to.

[RaggedyAnn]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

She was the only girl in the past 5 years who attended at least 2 recruitment parties that we didn't extend a bid to.

Let's put a positive spin on this. Perhaps you attract such quality women you don't need to cut anyone. Extending bids to everyone isn't always a bad thing.

[APhiAnna]

I have three, only one of which is from my chapter haha! I stole the others from friends.

1. Some people may find this distasteful but I thought it was hilarious. This was not even at my school...a friend of mine is an XYZ and a certain university. They had one girl, who was rushing as an active for the first time, who was known for being larger than life. She was from a foreign country and completely outgoing and off-the-wall. During recruitment they were discussing the day's PNMs as a chapter and a name came up of a PNM she had talked to. Before the recruitment chair could say anything, this girl screams "NOOOO...PLEASE GOD NO!!!" at the top of her lungs in her foreign accent. Needless to say it might be an innapropriate setting for an action like that, but everybody found it hilarious and teased her about it all year long (apparently even the recruitment advisor found it humorous).

2. This is also from a friend's chapter. They had a newer member who was also in her first year of recruitment. She was not very involved so the chapter did not know about some of her eccentricites. Apparently she is a compulsive liar. She would tell PNMs out of this world stories about how XYZ rented an airplane to fly to away games and how Kanye West performed at XYZ's invite. When other sisters came over to do their rotation bumps and asked the PNM what they had just been talking about they were baffled.

3. This is from mine. There was this PNM rushing this year who looked great on paper. Super cute, outgoing, great grades, talented athlete, etc. However, there was something about her personality, cute as it was, that was a little bit of the "I'm going to be sent to standards every week if you let me in" vibe. Nobody could put their finger on what is was but it made some sisters uneasy.

During house tours I was showing her my room and several other actives and PNMs were in the room with me. Somehow it was brought up that guys were not allowed above the first floor (it was a story about how the dad's are always stuck on the first floor while visiting their daughters waiting for the mom to come down from the upper floors) and her face starts looking confused. She says, with huge pauses in between each sentence, "Well what about...when you want to...you know...boys?" The fact that she was tip-toeing around that question just seemed too funny to us. She is a lot of fun to go out with, but judging by the problems she has caused the GLO she is a part of we think we made the right decision by releasing her.

[ASTalumna06]

yay! BUMP

Glad to know this thread is open again.

[tangelo212]

Ok so I have one from formal recruitment this past January...

It was the second (of three) preference parties. We had just finished our preference ceremony and the sisters were chatting with PNMs in the foyer and trying to make the best impression possible on the PNMs. Often, following the ceremony, many sisters and PNMs are somewhat emotional about the ceremony and you know, RELIEVED that the exhausting week of recruitment is almost over. As you all know, this is a pretty serious and important point in recruitment-- when you are walking your PNM out the door, giving her that last farewell before she must fill out her preference card. So after a handful of girls have been escorted out, them come BACK INTO THE HOUSE frantic.

Apparently, their bags, change of clothes (PNMs change shoes outside because of the snow), and other possessions are GONE from the front path. ALL of them. As a member of the recruitment department, I feel the blood rush to my face and I start to get really hot. The first thing I thought of was, "OMG Panhel is going to cite us for letting PNMs out late (needless to say, timing is VERY STRICT)!!!!" My next thought was that someone walking through the neighborhood had stolen them. So PNMsare worried and freaking, sisters can't "seal the deal," and obviously we are not ending on a good note!

It had started snowing heavily, so we figured that maybe the Rho Chis moved their stuff so it wouldn't get wet. I made an announcement to try and calm the PNMs down and told them that the Rho Chis had moved their stuff. Then, THANK THE LORD, one of my sisters discovered the bags and shoes on our back steps.

Later on, we cracked the case. Turns out a boyfriend (and a few of his fraternity brothers) of a sister had played a "prank" and hid all the stuff in the back of the house. Ha. Ha. Very funny. Many sisters felt that they couldn't end on a really strong note with their PNMs. We were pissed. He ended up sending flowers to the house and apologizing profusely. Also, his fraternity was pissed at him as well for jeopardizing relations with our chapter. The next day when the recruitment team got the new member list, I actually counted the number of PNMs who were going to join us and seeing which preference party they had attended. Turns out, pretty much equal numbers from all three, so I guess the fiasco didn't influence the PNMs' decisions all that much!

[LucyKKG]

Haha OMG if I had a bf who did that, I'd freaking KILL him!

[AOII Angel]

So...I just finished helping out my collegiate chapter for 2nd round parties this weekend. We had a few weird stories:

1. PNM who is the cousin of a past AOII chapter president at this school tells her rusher "I have fallen in love with XYZ!" Really! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!!

2. PNM is picked up by an AOII at the door. When they sit down, PNM says to AOII, "You're going to hate me, but I hooked up with your boyfriend while you were upstairs sleeping one night!" You can imagine the AOII's reaction.

3. PNM asks AOII, "So...I heard you guys haze really hard. How mean do you get?" AOII assures PNM that we do not haze, that it is against AOII and university policy as well as our personal beliefs. PNM then says, "Well...I know you're lying to me!"

Talk about some bold PNMs for Day #2! I was shocked!

[SWTXBelle]

Well, there's three easy cuts!