An Allstar Cheer-ful recruitment

[mizdove]

Hi! I'm going to tell my recruitment story from this past fall. I did allstar cheer my whole life, so that's going to be my theme here, using a big-name level 5 team for each house. The houses are:
Lady Jags ** (aunt in this house)
WCSS **
Lady Bullets **
SSX **
GT Blink **
TGLC **
Smoed *
Peach **
Wildcats ***
Senior Elite *
Coed Elite ***
Orange **
F5 ** (cousin in this house)
Panthers *
Steel *
Asterisks = number of recommendations I had for each house
Sorry if some colors are hard to see, with 15 chapters there just aren't enough!

My older sister is in WCSS at this school. I know aunts and cousins don't typically count as legacies (and don't for the houses I had aunts and cousins in) but just thought I'd note it.
I know my username kind of gives away the school I go to and house I end up in but you know, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Background: I thought I was very prepared for recruitment going in, I was pretty open minded to all houses and determined to give each house a chance and not just focus on my sister's house. I told myself I would NOT drop out no matter what houses I got back, and knew I would get dropped from some houses I liked. I was going through with my best friend (don't worry I won't tell you all the details of her recruitment) and she had certain chapters she preferred going in, but I tried to avoid the topic with her because she got tired of me telling her to be open minded and I didn't want her to sway my opinion.
I was a little worried that disclosing my sister's house would affect my chances at other houses, but included it in my information to rec writers and my online registration anyway. I was really excited for recruitment and spent a lot of time finding the perfect shorts to go with recruitment shirts and the perfect outfits for the other days.
In high school I had a near perfect GPA (above a 3.9 but don't want to give everything away) and a 35 on the ACT, so I knew grades wouldn't be an issue. I was involved in high school and had lots of leadership experience so I felt pretty good about how I looked on paper, but was super nervous for the actual parties because I'm a worrier.