i have a learning differencewill it hurt me in rus
by: LDI have a significant learning difference. I'm pretty sure I'm going to TCU next year. I have a 4.0 in high school, so I have good grades. I have tutor who will be working with me full time for academics, so I'm not worried about that. But my auditory processing ld can make conversations difficult. I want to go through rush, but typical small talk is hard for me. It might sound like I'm studdering (I'm not). Will my ld be a problem? Should I explain ahead of time?
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Do you have conversational difficulties all of the time or just when you have nerves and there are noises and distractions? That is important. The following is based on you being comfortable among friends or small groups and that you don't have any conversation issues in general:
1. Go through Recruitment. It may be difficult. Definitely let your rec writers know this information so that they can pass it along to the chapters. You don't want the girl that you get paired with to think you are aloof or worse. If you do not do well trying to make small talk in a noisy, distracting, and high-nerves situation this may not be the best option for you.
2. Do not go through Recruitment as a first semester freshman. Make lots of friends, let them know of your interest in joining a sorority and participate in Spring Recruitment. This is a more laid back situation, however not all the chapters participate and most that do will not announce it. Invitations to spring recruitment events are typically to friends of those already in the chapter.
3. Participate in Phi Mu's recruitment. They will be a new sorority at TCU in Fall 2016, and will recruit after Formal Recruitment is over. It is more of an interview process with local alums and national officers. You could probably share your LD with your interviewer, and then highlight your 4.0 in spite of it. There are no guarantees of a bid, even with a colony, but that type of Recruitment may play more to your conversational strengths.
Commentby: @huhJan 10, 2016 12:55:03 PM
I was responding specifically to her comment about her type of LD being auditory processing that makes "conversations difficult" and "small talk hard." Add in a high stimulation, noisy, pressure (i.e. nerves) environment and her type of LD may make the formal recruitment situation more difficult. As a result the girls paired with her may make incorrect assumptions about her, and while she may be a great PNM she might fall through the cracks.
I agree with you that learning differences should not be a reason to not go through Formal, as we all know plenty of people who have and who have done fine. A reading difference would have no impact on trying to have a conversation and impress, for example. My answer was specific to her situation, and the concern about having conversations that she herself raised. Of note, I never told her she should not go through Formal. I provided 3 valid options.
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by: huh?Jan 10, 2016 12:56:16 AM
Why shouldn't she go through regular rush. If she has an auditory process issue you it might be that it impacts her speech. She shod be able to two through regular rush. We have a lot of people with learning disabilities here at this school. She will be fine.
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