nicole i'm sorry about what happend. maybe it is for hte best at the moment, but if you really want ot be greek don't give it up as a lost situation. i wish you the best of luck....and you better stick around on GC!

Nichole,

We are all thinking of you. It's rough to be cut. Stay strong and proud in your decisions. We're here for you.

:( :( I'm sooo sorry about the cuts but don't give up!!! If you've already for sure decided not to continue, then I hope that you have an awesome rest of the year and I hope you know that I am genuinely sorry about all the cuts, and good luck with your grades (I need to pull mine up too)...you'd better stay on GC!

I'm so sad to hear you decided to drop out of recruitment. :( Is there any chance of COB after recruitment or in the spring? Best of luck to you whatever you decide.

I know that a couple of the sororities do COB but thats only if they dont meet quota and i know that the ones that I was the most interested in ALWAYS meet quota. I dont think that I have ever heard of them doing COB Im pretty sure that they were both the first sororties on this campus i know that one of them was. I am ok with my decision I am pretty sure it was the right one, my rho sigma thought it was also b/c of my last semester grades she urged me to continue but I know that I couldnt really be myself knowing that the 2 places I felt most comfortable at cut me :( I am kinda hoping that they wont remember me next fall but the good thing is that I really got along well with everyone I met and i know that XO really liked me too at least 3 of the girls i talked to kinda hinted to me that they really hoped that I liked them and that I would continue to come back and all of that and I know that they say that alot but we really talked about how comfortable I was there and they were with me. I dont know Im hoping that it was my grades so that when I raise them they will remember how much they loved me and be able to keep giving me invites to the end since I'll have a higher GPA :D I really appriciate everyones support and of course Im going to stick around cause ya know i love ya guys. wow how awful is this that my rushing/pledging experiences just keep messing up but hey they do say that 3rd time is the charm lol I should have really waited till next fall anyway since my GPA had gone down a bit but they told me they wouldnt look at that since I did have mono and that was the reason for the Incompetes and withdrrawls and whatnot. I dont know anyways thank you so much for all your kind words. it has helped me alot.

Nichole

http://superbabies.homestead.com/files/sad2.gif Hun, I'm so sorry to hear about you choice, but remember everything happens for a reason. Stay around on GC! http://superbabies.homestead.com/files/sad2.gif

Nichole -
I am very sorry to hear this news. I really hope everything will work out for you. Like everyone has been telling me, things happen for a reason. When it is your time, it will happen. Definitely stick around Sparklii, we've got so much GC love for ya!

aww.....
of course, we support you and understand. work hard on the grades and the money side of the house and see where things fall.
be strong and keep smiling.

Aww Nichole...:( I'm sorry!

So, if you do wait until next fall, what will your class standing be? Because I am worried that you may then have the age thing held against you? I'm not sure about MTSU's general feeling on "older" girls getting bids, but seeing as it seems hard for many "southern competitive" schools...I know you loved XO, and the other group that cut you, but you DO still have groups left. Look at amandamarie! She was so disappointed but went to Alpha Phi pref and loved it! She even said she felt like she was getting a second chance to see how great the house was (and she had already had 2 parties there!). And sugar and spice, who has proven to be a die hard DDD, told us how last year DDD wasn't in her top three for a long time! Maybe you should just keep going through rush and see if someone else sticks out to you. I know that might mean Chi O misses out on a wonderful PNM, but it means another house might just get her! I really think you should keep going. Nothing says you have to pledge...

Good luck!

I agree Kathy. There have been tons of stories on GC about people being upset after getting cut, but sticking it out anyway, then loving the house they end up in. I say, stick it out until pref, then if you really don't feel happy, don't accept a bid. I would just not want to see you drop, then not get the chance to Rush again, or have an even more unsuccessful one because of class standing. I say give it a shot, until you sign that card, it's not to late to drop out...

but since I did not attend theme night I dont think that I can even attend pref. Im not sure exactly the rules on all of this but Im pretty sure I wouldnt be able to. I could call my Rho Sigma and see. As for my classification I will be a sophmore I will be much closer to a jr by next fall but unless I take more classes than planned I should still be a sophmore so Im not too awfully worried about all of that.


Nichole

Nichole, I'm glad to hear that you're going to talk to your Rho Sigma! Know your options before you make a final decision, and if you bow out, make sure the sororities know that you did so "with regrets". They'll remember you as a woman with class that way, and will be more apt to consider you for COB.

Whatever you decide, please go with my best wishes!

Nichole -- I hope you can get back in the process -- perhaps you can be snap bid??? I know you were sad to have gotten so many cuts -- I experienced the same thing too -- I rushed at Southern Cal as junior, an ROTC cadet (in the mid 1970's - ack!) and as a band geek -- I had three strikes against me and was rather promptly dropped by several houses...it almost totally crushed me! Thankfully I still had at least one GLO which was not my #1 choice at the start of rush - Gamma Phi Beta....but I still liked it. I had thought I wanted to be in another GLO where a really close friend was a member, but they cut me right before Pref... I am sooooooooooooooo thankful I did not drop out when my friend's house dropped me because I cannot imagine being anything but a Gamma Phi Beta:D

Please keep us posted -- we care!!!:)

Oh, I didn't realize you hadn't gone to Theme night. I'm no NPC rush rules expert, but I THINK that may put you out of it. Well, good luck to you if you decide to COB, OR, if you do go through next year, I'm sure we will love your rush thread then, too!!! Good luck!

Nichole, I'm sorry to hear about your experience, but all things do happen for a reason, and in time, we learn the fuller meaning of "Why" they happen.

I wish you only best! It is possible to get snap bidded by a strong competitive chapter. It happens all the time, b/c they will make quota, but a girl or two will come to bid day crying because she didn't get her first choice and drops immediately. The sorority discreetly goes through their lists and makes a couple of of phone calls; the chapter members never even know b/c it is all handled on the DL. So if you can be asked to prefs, DO go.

I'm not promising anything, but sometimes these things DO happen, and who knows-- they could happen to you! I encourage you to kick butt this fall in school in try COB in the spring. You never know!!!!