OMG that is SO AWESOME! Congrautlations!!!!

Something really similar happened to my sister. She was going to attend the University of Maryland, but even before she actually started attending classes, she got a bid from, like, the best house on campus. They even came to our house to help her move her stuff and she hadn't even graduated high school yet. Then they helped her write her final term paper and bought her a dress for prom, in their colors, of course. It is so fabulous when people find their greek homes!! :D :) :p ;) :cool:

He depeldged and transfered schools....

valkyrie,


I'd like to hire you to follow me around all day and make sarcastic comments. That would be excellent.

I already asked david sedaris but he was busy but i'm thinking you might be the next best thing:p

In essence, it was both. I talked to them via email for like a month before I visited the house and then while I visited the house they gave me the bid. :)

What Buttonz said. Realized I was going to transfer schools because of changing my major to something not offered at my prior school and then depledged out of fairness to the rest of that pledge class and because there was no Sigma Chi chapter at UW-L.

It worked out perfectly, though, for all involved. :)

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=71206 for some backstory.

Personally, I wouldn't accept a bid anywhere until I'd had a chance to meet the other groups and see what they were like when school started.

I also think it's odd for a fraternity to give a bid to a person based on email conversations (which how many brothers could this have been between? just the rush chair?) and one meeting.

Hell, I think it's a bad idea to accept a bid just based on email conversations and one meeting.

I couldn't really follow the beginning of this thread, as I don't read those books and the language was very unclear.

Remember that NIC/IFC rush (recruitment) is different than NPC and NPHC rush. And each campus is different as well.

While this may not be the norm on all campuses, it certianly isn't unusual for a (NIC/IFC) bid to be extended and accepted after one meeting. Especially if there is prior knowledge of the PNM by the chapter and or prior knowledge of the chapter by the PNM.

By the way, there are a few rush threads on early or summer IFC rush. I am not familiar with Wisconsin-La Crosse or how their rush and year round recruitment is held, but some major mid-western universities (Nebraska, Missouri as examples) hold summer (early) rush. And in some cases, incoming freshmen/transfer students etc. have been extended a bid, and accepted, at their first rush event. And at some schools, freshmen pledges move into the houses before they even have had their first college class. As such, I would venture to guess that this early recruitment philosophy can be applied to the spring term as well.

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That's what I was thinking.

Just as a general update, I went through the official pledge ceremony Sunday night and it was wonderful. :)

Living in the house makes a huge difference. I'm really getting to know the brothers and I love it here and like everyone in the fraternity, both in-house and out.

We have really cool, active alumni too! :)

you live in the house as a pledge??

Yep. It's not all that uncommon with a lot of fraternities, actually.

That's standard for both the men and women who go through recruitment at my school. Once the bid is accepted, the new members are expected to move in. In the case of overflow, either upper classmen move out into apartments, or people live in the dorms. The women stay in a dorm during recruitment, and then men stay in different fraternities and are required to visit each chapter at least once. The fraternities are allowed to talk to men in the spring and summer and have "rush events" but not give out bids, and sororities are not allowed any contact. We have Vandal Friday for incoming students at the end of March, and a lot of people stay in a chapter house for a night or two. During the year any time students come to visit campus they are given the option of staying in a chapter and/or touring the facilities, and the chapter is on a rotating basis.

I was the only pledge on the Alpha Gam hall my freshman spring qtr. Of course, that was when freshman were ALLOWED to live anywhere. Now they're bound and tied to the freshmen dorms or with parents.;)

My brother never spent a day in the dorms. He was recruited by his fraternity at his school during the summer between hs and college, so he moved into the house immediately as a pledge.