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01-29-2003, 07:29 AM
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woohoo! Keeps us posted! I'm hoping KD was the two letter house she loved!
UMD has a fabulous KD chapter!!!!!!!!!
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01-29-2003, 05:02 PM
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I hope that she has a great time!
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01-29-2003, 05:18 PM
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In case anyone was curious... yesterday she visited:
ADPi
AXO
AOPi
KD
PSS
SK
SDT
And today she visits:
AEPhi
APhi
Tri-Delta
DPhiE
DG
KAT
ZTA
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01-29-2003, 08:16 PM
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One thing they changed about the first round last year that I really like is that all of the sororities have different booths in the same large room. That way, things are kept on a more level playing field, and it is A LOT less tiring and intimidating for the PMN's-I mean, being marched from house to house to 14 different houses for 25 mins each can be a *bit* overwhelming. This way, they never leave the room they started it. It really helped w/ retention
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01-30-2003, 07:26 PM
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UPDATE!
I just thought I'd update everyone on my sisters rush experience!! She went today to pick up her invitations for the next round and.....
ALL 14 SORORITIES INVITED HER BACK!!!!! WOOOHOOO GO SARA!
I actually had no doubt in my mind that she would be invited back to a majority if not all of them! She did tell me that a lot of her friends and girls in her groups were only invited back to 8,9,10, 11 houses - and the next round of cuts should be worse since they narrow it from 10 --> 5
This weekend sheactually begins going to the physical houses as opposed to a large room with the booths!
She is returning to....
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Phi Epsilon
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Delta Tau
She has 5 houses that she is absolutely in love with - but she is definetely keeping an open mind - i tell her that every night
The round of 10 starts this friday with 5 on friday and 5 on saturday!! She's planning on wearing these really cute dark khaki colored wide leg pants with cuffs on the bottom and some sort of cute top and pointy boots. And saturday she's thinking about a knee length skirt with calf boots! She's such a beautiful girl with long blond hair (if any of you have seen my picture we look soooo much alike) so she should look very stylish!
It was funny b/c she called me and was like, i was talking to this one girl and then 2 more girls came and started talking to us and then 3 more girls came after that and i was like in this circle of XYZ girls!
I said thats a good thing the more girls you talk to the better!!
I'll let everyone know more whan i get the next update!
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01-30-2003, 07:35 PM
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01-30-2003, 07:59 PM
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All 14 invites -how fun for her!!!
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01-30-2003, 11:09 PM
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WOW!! How great for her! Too bad neither DZ or Pi Phi are on campus, but your sister obviously rocks!! Yeah for her!
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01-31-2003, 12:33 AM
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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
WOW!! How great for her! Too bad neither DZ or Pi Phi are on campus, but your sister obviously rocks!! Yeah for her!
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I know - no DZ And my mom is an AGD and theyre not there either Oh well, we'll have a NEW greek link in the family!!! YAY!
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01-31-2003, 08:59 AM
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Pi Phi used to be at MD but lost their charter. Same with AGD. Believe it or not at it's glory, UMD had I think 19 sororities!
Kappa, AZD, AGD, Pi Phi and GPB all have lost their charters for one reason or another. Mostly low numbers but Kappa was incredible and lost it for another reason.
Maryland has a VERY competitive greek system and it can be jsut as brutal as the "southern" schools. Though Maryland IS south of the mason dixon line but don't get me started!
Good luck to your sister.
I find it VERY interesting that she cut the "lower" houses on campus. I thuoght this new way of doing tours was to eliminate the bias between the low tier and hig tier houses but who knows.
PLEASE keep us posted!!!
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01-31-2003, 09:08 AM
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Congrats to your sister on all those invites! Hope she has fun at round 2... good luck to her.
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01-31-2003, 09:33 AM
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What is the difference between a high tier house and a low tier house?
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01-31-2003, 09:40 AM
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Actually, low vs. high tier is just my opinion. I'm just going by numbers and retention rates after the rounds of recruitment.
Do I think SK, ZTA, ADPi have "lower quality" girls than the other houses? ABSOULTELY NOT.
However, that is how, regretably, they are perceived by the Greek system as a whole of the Maryland campus.
I was just commenting that after just one round, this woman's sister cut the, what I perceive to be the "lower tier" houses.
When the recruitment of round one "tours" went from the houses to the armory, I heard that was to make the playing field more level.
It seems to me that if it worked the lower tier houses wouldnt' be getting cut so soon.
Does that make any sense?
I don't mean to offend -- it's just my opinion.
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01-31-2003, 09:47 AM
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IowaHawkeye--
TONS of congrats to your sister!! I hope she has a fantastic time with the rest of recruitment MD is a tough Greek campus at times, but she'll be fine! Can't wait to hear the rest of the story!!
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01-31-2003, 10:00 AM
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Cool! Keep us posted on what happens next... and on the fraternity side of the coin, there is a chapter of my fraternity (Epsilon Delta chapter) at UMD.
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