formal recruitment

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I was a legacy of Alpha Phi…. I feel like this should be said right off. My older sister attends the same college as I do, we live at home together and she is an Alpha Phi. I went through formal recruitment thinking that I, like her, would be an APhi. I know that my reasons weren’t good ones, I wanted to make her proud, I wanted to be like her, I wanted to be the perfect little sister. I also know that in high school I wasn’t one of the kids you would have pegged as a girl who would go greek. I wasn’t social, I didn’t (and still don’t) party a lot. Regardless of my high school persona I knew I wanted to go greek and have a group of friends, I also thought I knew what sorority I was going to join. I knew all the rules, I knew how to act, how to talk, what to say and what to do.

By the very first day of recruitment I knew I was in trouble, I wanted to make my sister proud and join Alpha Phi, I wanted to go out with her, I wanted to be able to go to meetings with her and wear the same letters as her ~ but I had really clicked with the Delta Zeta girls. I decided to deal with the issue and make those two my top choices for all of recruitment, the worst thing that could happen was that I would have to choose, but I knew my choice would be Alpha Phi.

I tried so hard to be the girl that my older sister’s sorority would want that I almost forgot who I was in the process. I was crushed when Alpha Phi didn’t ask me back for philanthropy ni