Good luck!!!

I just want to give a big hug to the cool, calm, collected and caring moms in this thread. No matter how your daughters' recruitments turn out, they are lucky.

Bids have been issued. I think quota was 71. Can anyone confirm that? How did everyone do?

I just got back from.....LSU BID Day!!!!!..... She did get the bid to the sorority she loved all week. I am know the mother of a very happy Phi Mu. I got to her dorm at around 11:30. I think it was 9-12 they did calls. If not we stressed for an extra hour!!! At 12:01 we figured it was all good. She kept checking her phone for missed calls but they never came.

LSU bid day is awesome and there where so many beautiful girls up and down the row. No wonder the competition was so fierce. Just like everything else we do here it was a great party. They don't go for the facny white dresses or even sundresses. It is shorts and t-shirts and silliness all the way. What a fun way to start it all out. They ran to the houses and got lots of hugs and jumped around like kids, took tons of pics, ate lots of pink cupcakes and pink punch. Then they are going to an alums house for some kind of party tonight.

Now don't ask any questions about quota etc., I was just so glad about our 1 bid I didn't care about anything else. When I talk to her tomorrow I will try to get more info.

Thanks for all the support you gave us, it has been a very stressful week but it ended up great.

oh, I forgot- one friend went Phi Mu, another went DZ, and her roommate and another friend went Tri Delta.

For graduation we went on a cruise with a group of students from a neighboring town. Almost every girl from that cruise went Phi Mu. My daughter is not sure how she feels about that. She is glad to have a base of people she knows but kinda wanted to branch out a little. Hopefully she will keep those friends but not rely to much on them. We are from a avery small town and school and part of the reason I wanted her to join a sorority was so that she could meet people who might be a little different from her and from different places etc.

Tootiepie,

Please pass on my best wishes to your new Phi Mu! We are sisters!
And she is going to love her sorority experience! Great times ahead.

Although some chapters draw heavily from certain regions of the state, I am positive that each chapter has out-of-staters...probably more than you would guess.

I am so very happy for you. Phi Mu has a GREAT chapter at LSU but everyone has a great chapter at LSU. It's always a party in Louisiana.

How interesting to find this thread. Spent the day with an Alpha Gam that lives in BR; her dau was a Zeta at LSU.

Maybe Alpha Gam will go back on campus!:D

I agree with you, Just Interested!

The key is to stay in the hunt and happily grab the bid you are given.
The chapters are all thriving and have much to offer.

Congrats to all of the actives and the new members!

As I walked down the row I was so impressed by all the sororities. They all had such beautiful girls who looked like they were having so much fun. It makes me want to be 18 all over!!!

Congratulations! I know you and your daughter are thrilled. My closest cousin was a Phi Mu! I hope she has a great time the next four years.

Congrats to your daughter! Phi Mu did great this year! All but 2 sororities made quota, and I believe Phi Mu and KD had the most girls put them first on their cards, so she's joining an excellent chapter. Quota was 71, by the way.

Yay! It's always amazing to add another one to the fold! Whoo Hoo for my new sister!

Congrats to your daughter and PHI MU! Also congrats to her friends that got bids

Does anyone know if a bid list is traditionally posted? I have a girl I know through my famil who went through, and I'm curious to know where she pledged.

I've never seen an LSU bid list posted.

AnchoraAlumna is correct. LSU does not traditionally post a bid list like Auburn and Alabama. Greek Affairs does/did do a press release to The Advocate and all of the NPCs were included. However, in recent years, not all of the chapters have given permission to print their lists so only maybe 5 or 6 chapters will appear.

I was a little surprised to hear the discussion about how many pledges put a sorority first on their cards - I did not know that information was available to the sororities. I would have that it was a little like knowing where you were on the bid list. Information that leads to hurt feelings.

Look at the # of posts the poster who said that has. I wouldn't take that info as gospel. It sounds like a variation on "3000 girls started rush at SEC U and only 1000 got bids."

I'm surprised that you're surprised! The number of women matched to their first choice or secoond choice has always been common knowledge at places where I've assisted with recruitment. The numbers for the individual groups are generally only known by them but the overall first matches are a very important statistic for PH to know. They also provide that info to NPC. It tells them how well the system is doing overall with educating the PNMs, the chapters, etc. That's usually one of my first questions when working with a chapter.

This is all understandable - however, it's the kind of info that the sisters should know to keep discreet and not splash all over a message board. :)

I agree. I would think only the people intimately involved in recruitment would know that and not the whole chapter. Yes, it's important for each chapter to know in terms of planning for the next year, but Susie Sorority does not need to know if Ruth Rushee picked xyz first or second unless Ruth tells them. I had no clue where girls ranks houses unless they told me, and that was fine with me.

I didn't mean to infer that the individual women know that information if anyone thought that....only that the overall statistic is available. Hope that's clearer.

Sorry it's taken me so long to come back and post, but my daughter is now a proud member of Zeta Tau Alpha!! It was certainly not her first choice going into the week, but it was actually the sorority that she ended up preffing. I was shocked, but she said she liked the fact that it wasn't full of girls from her hometown or high school, since she wants to branch out and meet new people. She loves the laid back feel of Zeta, and that's so totally her. Some girls look down upon Zeta at LSU, but she's quite happy, and honestly, those are the girls she's trying to stay clear of anyway.:rolleyes:

So, we're now a proud Zeta family!!!! Thanks to all of your for your guidance and support.

lsumomx2,
That is great news! I am so glad your daughter is a happy new Zeta!

She will have a wonderful time! Let the fun begin!

Congrats to your daughter! She'll have a wonderful time.

Congrats to your daughter!

Congratulations! I hope she enjoys her time in Zeta!

Indeed - congrats to our new Phi Mu and Zeta Tau Alpha members and moms! I also hope that your daughters are enjoying their first day of classes! It's a beautiful day to be a Tiger. ;)

lsumomx2 when we toured the mass comm dept this spring the girl who took us thru was a Zeta and she was one of the cutest and nicest girls I have ever meet. I saw her picture on the LSU website this spring as one of the top 12 graduates. If she is an example of the Zeta girls they are great. It is unfortunate that some sororities get such an uncalled for reputation. I told my daughter that these are usually just made up by fraternity guys, and people who aren't even in greek life. My daughter dropped Zeta to keep her legacy but ended up regretting it. She really wishes she had given them a second chance. She will have a great year.

tootiepie, my eldest daughter had several very close friends who were/are Zetas, and they are just the greatest.

I think certain sororities get bum raps not only from the fraternity boys, but by some of the snootier sororities, too. My daughter heard several girls during rush week bad mouthing this sorority or that sorority. It was clear to her that she didn't want to be involved in ANYTHING they might be interested in.

This has all been a learning experience for us. We learned that it pays to be a legacy (duh), in an SEC school, you really need recs from sisters from THAT school, and it's good to know people. We were 0 for 3 on those counts in most cases.

Anyway, I'm a firm believer in "you'll end up where you're meant to be", so we'll just see how it all pans out.

Hope both our girls have found a perfect fit. ;)

Well even with those things it can be rocky. We had recs from women from LSU even a few who had just graduated. We had a few connections in the sororites but not many (phi mu was one of them though), and we really thought we had done our homework and we still had heavy cuts. I guess it just like they say on here you will end up where you were meant to be.

Recent article on campus paper's site giving some overall numbers. Apparently the new LSU pledge classes are slightly smaller than last year. The article quotes some people who suggest that the H1N1 flu and the economy may have been factors:

http://www.lsureveille.com/news/soro...st-1.1820287#5

It does seem that NM numbers so far have dropped from last year, it doesnt surprise me that the economy has something to do with it...
but I just want to send my Congrats to lsumomx2's daughter for choosing Zeta.I know a few Zetas, and they are sweet,fun, and outgoing girls.

Obviously since your daughter pledged them, they are an excellent chapter!

^^^^and that is what is important.

I'm sorry, but if you daughter is happy screw the rep. Why do you care? Her and her new member class can help form their http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...kies/quote.gifreputationhttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...kies/quote.gif

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Am I wasting my time? I'm from FL, with very few recs, not a legacy. However, I got good grades and an academic scholarship to LSU. I was athlete of the year 2 years at my school, and always MVP. Homecoming court two years at a prestegious private school... But I feel like I wont receive any bids!:(