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[quote=Anonymous]The sorority rush will all depend on your daughter. How outgoing/friendly/relatable is she and how good is she with first impressions.

The whole week is a process of elimination where the houses pick your daughter to come back and your daughter picks the houses she wants to go back to.

If after the first day she isn't asked back to any house or only one or two (assuming there are multiple houses), this is going to be really rough on her. Basically, she'll see it as the houses met her and decided they didn't like her. (And in actuality, this is what is happening.)

If after the first day your daughter is asked back to tons of houses, she's probably going to have a great experience (the houses met her and liked her!).

In my experience, the girls who don't get asked back to lots of houses/have a rough time just aren't a good fit for the Greek community. And I don't mean this negatively at all...these just won't be her people/friends/clique at college. And that's okay! As most of us know, there are so many groups, clubs and cliques of people that she will find her niche that she really does fit in.

I would encourage her to keep an open mind about the process (don't have your heart set on ONE AND ONLY ONE HOUSE--that will most likely backfire). And remember that even within a single sorority house there are cliques within each pledge class. So if she doesn't get her PERFECT house, she'll still meet and find girls she likes/connects with in other houses.

Good luck to her and to you! It can either be a hard/stressful week or a fun/exciting week.

As for my time with the sorority, I loved it. It was an instant group of friends that you could connect with. I am still friends (10+ years later) with some of the girls, but definitely not all. I found two of my four jobs through my sorority connections. But I didn't, and don't, let it define me.[/quote]

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