Hey Lisa

I'm really sorry things didn't work out for you. I was really hoping you'd find the place to call home this year. You're still an awesome girl and I enjoyed seeing you. I know there is something great out there for you and I hope you find it soon.

lotsa good wishes for ya!

I'm sorry Lisa. Keeping my fingers crossed for COB if you're interested!

I'm sorry to hear things didn't work out. :(

Maybe COB would work out for you.

Take care. :)

Obviously, not every sorority is right for everyone. If Bid Day is Friday, you might be able to go COB by the weekend!

I'm sure you'll find that, whichever you choose, we're all behind you. Lisa!

would you have gone to indigo's pref party even though they weren't in your top 3?

out of the 6 houses i would have only joined the 3 that i listed as my top choices. i feel like as a sophmore i have a better idea of which houses i really would have liked to be in and contribute to and i wouldnt have been excited to be in the other houses (again not that they arent great girls, but just not my girls) and thats just not fair to them or to me. another thing i didnt like about those houses was a mandatory 2 year live in period. if they were girls and houses i adored then that would have been ok, but if i was miserable i would have hated it and ended up depledging or deactivating.
as for cob, i dont think the houses i want usually have to cob, and i dont want to get my hopes up becuase most likely i wont be cob'ed, and then it would be painful all over again. Then again, you never know...

I'm sorry to hear that Formal Recruitment didn't work out. :( But just because those houses normally make quota doesn't mean they will! Keep on the lookout for COB events. I wish you all the best.

Im so sorry things didnt work out for you. Im wishing you good luck for the rest of the school year :) and you better stick around here :)

Nichole

COB is started by the houses that didnt quota at the end of Fall Rush. Then next semester there is Informal Recruitment which is only done by maybe 3-4 houses at the most (thoses that didnt make quota).
After Fall Rush is done check the OGL to see what possible houses might be COBing. As someone said, it may not be the houses you want. Also check next semesters Informal rush too.
My thing is if you maybe want to check back into rush it's possible that its not too late. Call your Rho Omega and see. I dropped out my first year and although I eventually joined AGD a year later (Love it to death with all my heart and my sisters but, I will be honest and say they definately were not my fave or one of my top choices.But that goes to show you never know what can happen and things can be different once you're on the inside :D) I still sometimes wonder what would have happened if I have of stuck around until Bid Day.
Best of Luck and hope that you become a member of a great system!

I definately agree with UMgirl. You never know where you might fit until you give them a chance. I'd say go to some COB events. Seriously you never know!

i'm a sophomore and went through recruitment and pledged this fall. before rush started, i thought i "knew" the personalities of the houses well enough already and i thought i "knew" where i would fit in and where i would end up joining - but i didn't have a clue :D

i always thought all of the groups on my campus were GREAT, but i had never really been exposed personally to many Dee Zee girls until recruitment. i gave them a chance and WOW, here i am, happy as can be. even during recruitment there were only a few girls i got to know well enough to base an opinion on, but i figured that if they were having a great time and i loved them already, then the rest of the group had to have something going for them, too! you learn to appreciate your group even more after you pledge and i love my DZs so much already, more than i ever thought i would. i guess i can understand if you *really* don't think you can get along well in a group, but you seriously have to try to get to know some people in the group well enough to decide.

going through COB won't hurt anything. it will at least give you another chance to see what these girls are all about. if they're having a blast, i bet you could, too =) good luck!

I have a cousin that goes to U of M-- I'm pretty sure the only houses COBing will be Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Gamma Delta.... and you didn't really like either of them....

In all honestly we will see what happens. No one knows numbers yet and from the changes that Panhel made it looks like majority of the houses may make quota or somewhere close to it. Gamma Phi and AGD are both great houses and hopefully both will meet their goals

It isn't that I had anything against GPhiB or AGD, I just knew that Lisa said she'd join no one but DDD, APhi or DG... so i didn't want her to get her hopes up about COB that you guys all keep pushing if the only two houses participating are people that she would refuse a bid from anyway and tried to drop multiple times duing recruitment....

It's definitely not that i would only join ddd, alpha phi, or dg as the only 3 houses on campus, but of the 6 that i returned to i would have only joined those 3. on our campus you cannot recieve an invite back to anywhere where you have previously been cut, so there was no point in saying oh well id have joined chi o but they cut me after 2nd sets... etc.

It is true that in general the only houses who cob are a-g-d and gamma phi beta and neither of those are houses i am absolutely thrilled with.

this is the first year trying a new system on campus and it seems like its screwing everyone over. none of the houses my friends are in seem to like it. it is attempting to help the "bad" houses on campus to fill quota and its hurting hte "good" houses. last night i talked to a friend who is in a "good" sorority who ususally has NO problem getting quota and she said they are very worried they wont make it because they were forced to drop almost 3/4 of the girls after mixers. she even suggested writing a letter of complaint to panhel because what is happening to the rushee's is ridiculous. (*of course i told her if they dont make quota keep me in mind, not that im holding my breathe)