hmm well i had never been through formal recruitment- i had depledged a national sorority and basically swore of sororities since then... i wanted to pledge... but i was scared to. A friend of mine called me and asked if i wanted to go to the nu sig house iwth her... i was apprehensive since nu sig didn't have that great of a reputation... but i went anyway. as soon as i walked in... i knew that this was where i wanted to be... my friend and i were the only ones rushing b/c it was a relaxed COB night... we were the first girls there... and the only girls- i felt so badly for them... and it was such a fun night- we just sat around and talked- and all the girls were really close- all 10 of them! so i went back the second night with a different friend... (the girl iw ent with before didn't want to pledge) for moral support... so i went- and had another great night with them- and they gave me and ashley bids... ashley wasn't going to do it b/c her parents didn't want her to- but i accepted my bid right away.... then ashley and i talked up nu sig like crazy and i got a bunch of my friend to go with me... 11 of htem!! so we accepted and started pledging the next week- it was great- ashley changed her mind and pledged the 2nd class that semester (5 girls)....

i basically knew when i was going to get in b/c they were on a tight schedule to get the 2nd class going- but i didn't kow waht to expect that night- when they handed me my letters- my whole pledge class ran together in a big hug and we were jumping around like crazy! i was sooo happy- i wore my letters around like crazy that week... and i barelly take them off now:)

i love my girls! i never ever regret doing nu sig... its been really hard but 4 got in in the fall- and 8 just got in last night!! we're up to 32!!! woohoo

i went through formal recruitment at my school as a transfer student. i didnt know too much about either sorority on campus (there were only two!) or anyone rushing. after 2 days of parties, we had bid day. we got up really early and got our invitations for the parties for the final day and then went to get ready. after we got on the buses to go to the houses we couldnt talk to any other pnm til after bids were handed out (so noone could sway our decision) . we went back to the union building and ate lunch and watched sorority life (ironic huh?) and prefed our choices. then forever later all of the pnm's were put in a room where they called us out one by one to go across the hall to get our bids. you opened your invitation and then were pointed in a direction to a different room where your rho chi's and other new members were. i remember walking into the chi omega room and everyone screaming!! it was cool cause you got to see who was in with you because there was no other way to know til you got your name called. that was one of the longest days but one ill never forget!! then we went to the chi o house and all the sisters were there and finally got to find out who accepted the bids!! we all went to a football game together wearing our bid day shirts. it was an amazing day!!

Our bid night was so exciting. After going through formal recruitment, we went, filled out our pref cards and went home. They said the Rho Chi would call us by 1 pm the next day if we didn't get a bid (my roommate and I went through together). Neither of us got calls, so we were all excited. We went to 1 of the same prefs and 2 different ones. When we went through recruitment, we decided not to tell each other what sororities we were going to, unless it was one of the same. Anyway, so we both get ready and hoof it up the gym, where when we walk in, there is a table with bid cards. We both picked up our cards, looked at them, and then tore those puppies open. I screamed "D Phi E!", and she looked at me and said, "What?!?!" Then, she showed me her bid card, and she got D Phi E too!!! We both ran into the gym and a whole gaggle of sisters came running up to both of us, smiling and hugging us! It was a great day :) Of course, back then, bid night was a huge party with fraternities and such, so the rest is sort of blurry :)

it all works out in the end
 

hey-
alpha gamma delta wasn't my first choice until the last round, suits, of formal rush. i had liked two other houses prior but i wound up not suiting there. i knew a few people going into the house prior to joining but had the same few people talk to me each time i came to the house over the four days of rush. on the last day, i didn't want to leave. i knew it was where i was supposed to be, it felt right. i left and the girls who rush me gave me a hug; i think we both knew i would be back the next day :-) the next day, i got my bid to agd and was extactic! i was upset the day before about not suiting at the other houses, but as my recruitment counsler told me, it all works out in the end. i couldn't imagine being in another house or my college career without it. i am even rooming with a girl i met during rush and we've become really good friends since then.


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My bid day experience was kind of normal, like everyone else's. The girls that did not get bids were called in the morning so that they wouldn't get upset about not having a bid waiting (there are only 3 or 4 each year). The chapters don't know (or aren't supposed to know) which PNMs they get until the revealing. The PNMs were told to meet on campus around noon and were taken into a room a few at a time to sign their bids. The Panhellenic officer, Jen, that gave me my bid had been so sweet to me the entire time- I had been upset on pref night, the night before, because I couldn't decide which chapter I wanted to put first on my pref card, and she talked me through it. Jen handed me a pink envelope and I opened it, started to read it, and kind of had my heart skip a beat because my eyes went straight to the chapter name and I misread it at first as "Delta Gamma," who I hadn't even preffed. I calmed myself and kept reading, then realized what I had read was the "Delta Lambda" chapter of Gamma Phi Beta... my first choice! I was stoked, signed my card, Jen hugged me and I was hoping she was a Gamma Phi because I loved her!

My school does the whole running down the hill to your new chapter thing. Each of the 6 PX groups comes up one at a time and runs to where her new chapter is placed on our campus' lawn. I was the only girl in my group (the last of the 6) to get a bid from Gamma Phi, and it was awkward for me because Gamma Phi and AXO (the other chapter I preffed) were right next to each other and I could see people I knew from both watching me... They told us to run, I went for it, and got ambushed by Gamma Phis... all the while noticing the AXOs I had met running at me and stopping. It was kind of sad, but I was with my girls! FYI, when the PXs and officers revealed their chapters, I was so excited that Jen was a Gamma Phi! She was one of my role models in the chapter and I still look up to her!

I had previously depledged a local at Rio and basically said that if a group rushed me hard enough I'd be up for it, but I wasn't going to be pursuing it on my own time. (Yeah, some of you GCer's know of my threads :p) But this second time I decided I "might as well" since one of my best girlfriends' were wanting to pledge. Well I was rushing Z at the time when my nephew went into the hospital w/a brain anuerism so I couldn't make it to -any- rush events. Z basically said "Sorry, you're loss" and dropped me pretty quick w/o really caring about -why- I couldn't make it the events. Well, my girlfriend told Lambda about what happened and told them I would probably pledge. So, around 3:30 (4:00 was the deadline for bids) I was bombarded w/calls from Lambda's wanting me to be w/them :D So I had one of the girls sign my name to the bid and after a few weeks I became a Sister of Lambda Omicron Psi :D :D :D I love my sisters!

What is really neat is what each of you have gone through and truely appreciate it!

I started my own Local to affiliate with a National, I feel no different! It is the Thrill of Joining a Great Greek Organizatin where You feel so welcome and become a Member of The Sisterhood! Not only the Sisters who are Local, but the Ones from all over the World! The Ones you will have and be able to meet forever!:)

AWWWEE!! I LOVE this thread. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!!

I did informal, and went to an info night for the new local on my campus. It was on Thur night, and we were supposed to find out on Monday, after 8pm or something like that. I didn't really sweat it out over the weekend, because I had track and work and everything to keep me busy.
So Monday comes, and it is in the back of my mind, but I still wasn't nervous. I sit down after dinner to start my physics. I was having SUCH a hard time at physics that I didn't know what time it was or that the door bell rang or anyone knock on my door. Then I hear a loud banging at my bedroom door, and I start to get pissed at my roommate. I throw my books on the floor and get all huffy.

I opened the door, ready to yell, and there are 10 girls in their sorority jackets looking back at me with a flower pot and a bid day card, and I got all excited and my roommates start taking pictures!!! It was soo cute cause I was not ready or expecting it- at all- I was in the land of physics!!!


When we became a national, we had a second bid day, but it wasn't nearly as exciting. We all new we were getting in. But we had a pot luck dinner and when we walked into one of the sister's house, there was a big banner our field consultant painted that said "Tri Delta Welcomes the Gamma Omega Chapter". We were given our bid day cards and packs after we ate and all.

I loved my bid day and I'll never forget it! We went to 5 rounds and from day 1, I knew I wanted AOII more than ANYTHING! When I got my first list, I saw Gamma Phi had cut me and I was upset because they were my second choice and I thought we'd gotten along really well. So I went to the other 3 and got my 2nd list back and was fine that Alpha Phi had dropped me. I felt bad going back to XYZ each day because I didn't like it there at all and I tried to make it obvious without being rude, but they kept inviting me back. At pref was the first time I clicked with one girl, but I was just so excited for AOII's pref. I almost cried at AOII pref and was really excited for the next day. I made my list and almost suicided, but thought just in case...So Bid Day was at noon and everyone was in the auditorium and they hand us our bids and we have to sit on them while the AX's reveal themselves. It was so funny because they have every chapter's bid day shirt on and strip them off until they get to theirs. After that we can open our cards, and I was sitting next to my friend who wanted AOII too. We opened our envelopes and screamed when we saw we both were AOII and colapsed into hugs and laughs and tears. Then we run to our group and wait for like a half hour while we're taught songs to sing and everything. Finally they let us run out to the mall where each group is waiting and it was the best because I was one of the first out and I was runnig my butt off and to see everyone and they hugged the heck out of you and it was just wonderful! This year, I was disaffiliated because I'm a RA and I got to meet the new girls first and run out with them and I was first out again and cried my eyes out! I love our bid day! Whew, that was probably more than you wanted to read ;)

What a great thread! :)

I went through formal rush, but dropped out after determining that none of the NPC sororities then on campus were right for me. But a new local sorority was holding its very first rush the following week, so I dropped by and click!

I felt I'd found my sisterhood, but I didn't want to get my hopes up. I was very nervous when I met with my rho chi (a PX remained deaffiliated to assist with our rush and distribute our bids). But she had good news... and I went to the bid day party and got tackled by all my new sisters :D

My local later became a chapter of AEPhi.

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Well mine was through COB... the adpi chapter on my campus had not gotten a very large new member class, so they decided to have a little recruitment weekend... Well I didn't really know it was a whole weekend thing, but I had stopped by an info both of their's and shown interest so I was invited to a karaoke night on friday night... The next thing I knew i was invited back on saturday... then sunday morning I received a call from an adpi asking where my room was... This hit me that I was probably receiving a bid... The funny part was there was another katie down the hall from me... they tried her door first... luckily she wasn't home and they noticed my room at the end of the hall... They came down and extended me the bid and i accepted right then and there... The next thing I know I was calling my parents and explaining to them i joined a sorority...

I wasn't surprised at all because I got cut by all the other sororities just after cokes. Everyone knew I was a ZTA legacy and that my mom went to the same school and that all I wanted was to be a Zeta. I was just THRILLED that I got a bid. And that my two closest friends did as well. It was a very special night and the three of us went out to celebrate. Two of us only had ZTA to choose from and we knew musketeer #3 got a bid from ZTA too, just because there was no way they would split us all up. It was such a great feeling to get that phone call from my Rho Chi that night and then open up my bid the next morning and literally run to the Zeta house to say hi to all my new sisters! Ok, thinking about all of this has just brought back SO many memories! :)

Our recruitment process works a little bit differently, as my school only allows locals right now, but after I preferenced, we had a formal tea with our future sisters where they asked us all kinds of questions as to what we could bring to the group, and at that time, we had to tell them where we would be during two different time periods. The first one was so that if you weren't going to get a bid, you wouldn't have to wait around in your room all night to see if you got a bid.

During that time, one of my fellow kdchi hopefuls found out that she didn't get in, but once the time period passed, I knew, so I was basically jumping for joy.

During the second time, one of my friends who lived 3 floors above me was talking to me on AIM, and she was like the KDChi's are coming! So I looked at my door, and all sorts of shadows from people standing outside were showing up, and when I got the knock, I just about fell over from excitement :)