Also, I'm fairly certain that there is at least one chapter on your campus who is still eligible for fall COB. If you know women in that chapter and really want to be Greek, I dncourage you to reach out and express your interest.

I'm betting that it had nothing to do with time management - rather that the girls from the service fraternity were rushing as a block and attempting to commandeer the new colony. This would have created major clique issues and that's not the way to get a colony started. The national volunteers who are choosing the members have very finely tuned drama detectors.

That was my first thought too.

This sounds much more plausible to me. Colonies are such tricky entities. It only takes a few girls thinking they are running the show to completely derail the progress. That is not to say that's what happened with the OP, but fear of that could be the issue.

It seems Alpha Xi Delta's colony procedure lately has been to take less than the maximum allotted number of girls. If you are still interested, you might express that interest and make clear you are not part of a kabal of girls who think they will be running this chapter. If I am understanding how it works lately, they start the colony and then add groups of girls later, and in the spring after the colony is a chapter.

I am not promising anything (I have no direct connection with our colony there), but I think continued interest could possibly pay off. Go gently.

It certainly didn't take very long for this thread to move over to that other site... ugh. Enough!

Ugh. What does it say on the other site?

Does this happen much--groups trying to commandeer colonies? I have heard of it happening when a groups of friends join a WRC.