Living on a Sorority Floor
 

I just got my dorm assignment for this fall. My school I will be attending does not have greek houses, only greek floors, and I just found out I was assigned to live on the AOII floor, with an AOII roommate. Apparently, I applied late, and the only rooms available were smoking floors, or a Greek floor. I called my roommate (who is an upperclassman, I dont even live with a freshman) for a little get to know you, find out who's bringing the blender and who's bringing the microwave kind of convo and the first thing she asked was if I was rushing, then she told me she was an AOII, and I was on the AOPi floor, and that she w asnt allowed to talk to me until rush was over. This is so wierd! Rush doesnt start til the second week of school, so I just wont talk to my roommate until then? And, isnt this going to be awkward if I was to get a bid from another house, and I still live on a floor not just with all AOII's, but, that is thier HOUSE, they have thier chapter room there and everything. Does anyone else see this as a problem?

It will be hard. However, those rules are very typical "rush rules". She should still be able to have typical conversation with you(Hi, how are you etc etc and the get to know you phone call). Good Luck

Just remember just bc she is an AOPI doesn't mean you have to be. As a greek she should understand that each person does't belong in the same house. Having an upperclassmen as a roommate could be a benefit bc she can tell you about professors, the cool places to go etc.
GOOD luck
Damn University of West Florida send me my housing assigment. I applied for the early deadline, but even when you do that they don't tell you until early Aug where you are living or who your roommates are! Being a junior transfer student I don't want to get stuck with a freshman bc I turn 21 a week after school starts and I want to meet people my age to go out with.

That is wierd!! I have never heard of a school that filled sorority floors with incoming nongreek students. It doesnt sound like a very well thought out arrangement!!

However, your future roommates should be able to talk to you about non greek related stuff!

Oh,..and I thought greek floors were seperated by group??ex all
AGDs on one floor and all ZTAs on one floor...does this not happen???

hmm.. Yes, the floors are separated. I was assigned to l ive on the AOPi floor, but there is a DZ floor, an ASA floor, and a SSS floor. This is why I am worried, one, because if I am only living with AOPi's and t hey cannto even talk to me until after rush is over, how am I going to meet people my age, and rushing with me if I dont live with any freshmen? And two, what if I was to pledge, say, SSS (hypothetical, I dont know anything about any of the houses really, and I dont want to break and rush rules), then what? Wouldnt that be wierd or something? To be a Sigma on an AOPi floor? I would almost feel l ike I was invading thier privacy or something.

alphasiglana...i totally hear ya...i'm a junior transfer and just found out i'm living with an incoming freshman...and she'll be rushing this semester...so now i also need to find out the rush rules on the new campus before i end up getting the chapter in trouble...

AGDthetaup-- is your sorority on the campus in florida? Are you going to join that chapter?
Oh no you have to live with a freshman--- No offense freshman, but believe me there is a big difference between the ages of 17-21.

Justhey,

We had a similar situation this past year. We have houses, but we had a few extra rooms. Our university has a BIG housing shortage, so we offered them to incoming freshman. It wasn,t bad at all. We introduced our self and said hi. So dont worry...once school and recruitment start your are gonna be really busy. So i wouldnt worry:D . Good luck and keep us posted.

Luv,
M:)

lana..
i'm really not sure yet how the affiliating is gonna go. i almost went alum before transferring but heard some good things about my sisters at the chapter at the new school. i think i'm gonna give it a shot and meet some sisters and then decide. how are you going about it? and are you at all nervous too??

justhey76. . .
 

I have heard of freshman being placed on a sorority floor, joining another sorority, and then moving to their sorority floor.

Chances are, after rush is over, and say you join SSS, a freshman who joined AOII may want your room, and someone else may want HER room, and you may want the other person's room. See if the housing department allows for those types of room changes after rush. (Chances are if they have enough people wanting to switch that it makes the rooms work out, then they may do it.)

Another thing is that these sororities have probably been in this situation before and will know how to handle it.

Good Luck and let us know what happens!!!

housing
 

My chapter just got our first house and have one room completely open luckily enough recruitment is before school starts so if we have independents in the house they will not be there long before recruitment (only 1 day) and I know we have agreed that

the worst that could happen was so happened to a girl that bid my sorority who was living in another house on campus and that house dropped her after the 2nd day and treated her like crap when she bid our chapter.... fortunately res life had here moved into a new dorm 2 days later

But that was an extreme case I wish the best for you and hope you find that chapter that fits you best!

AGDTheTaup-- my sorority isn't at UWF, but I still am able to participate in panhellenic.

I live on a sorority hall. We have 3 rooms open. There is a chance they will put freshman up there. It will be ackward. But I know as long as I talk to them about non-greek stuff it'll be fine. Last year, we had one girl who was not in our sorority on our hall. We recruited her but she decided greek life wasn't for her. Everything worked out fine. I mean all we did was close our door during chapter and made sure not to talk about sorority business in the hall or the bathroom.

Don't feel ackward, I am sure this has happened before at your school. As long as you don't bring up sorority issues or greek life, you should be fine. I am sure you will meet other freshmen in your classes too. Just don't feel pressured to join the sorority b/c you are living with them. Go where you feel is right for you.

It will be a bit awkward, being on a floor where no one can talk to you until rush is over... but AXOprincess is right, school and rush will keep you pretty busy.

Try to find out if there are other freshmen on the greek floors, and get to know them - they're in the same situation you are in. You may make some friends, and if nothing else, it will make it easier to arrange room swaps if, say, you join SSS and a girl on the SSS floor joins AOII.

Say hi to people on the AOII floor... they probably won't be able to say more than "hi" back, but don't ignore them because they can't talk to you... even if AOII cuts you or you cut them.

Good luck :)

Our campus does this, putting GDI's on sorority floors if they don't fill their suites. It can definately be extremelly awkward. I work with a girl who got placed on a small sorority's floor, she says she hated it... they were very nice to her at first, but after she said she had no interest in joining, they were very rude to her. We usually fill our suite, I can only think of one time where we had an independent on our floor. She was awesome, we loved her, but she didn't want to join, but we still hung out with her a lot. At the same time, there was another girl, a transfer, who was an independent living on the floor. She went through rush, and really wanted to join ADPi, but ended up going to our house because she felt she had too. A house might feel pressured to give a girl a bid because she is on their floor... i'm not sure if this was what happened in this case, because I was rushing at that time. But it is a difficult situation. This is why it's so important to fill your suite.

I really recomend you talk to someone in the residence life office and plead with them to be put on a waiting list to be moved to a freshmen dorm/floor. I know it may be rough waiting, but it will be worth it if they put you in a regular dorm...I was stuck in a upperclass dorm that had suites and all the girls were already best friends so making friends with them was next to impossible...I don't want to freak you out, but good luck with it, and really try to talk to someone in res. life.

SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR THE LONG POST...

I am an alum and an advisor of a chapter at the school that justhey76 is attending, and I can totally tell you that it happens all the time (RHA putting freshman on sorority floors)....I haven't heard if we have non-members on our floor yet, but I'm betting we do, too, if our floor isn't full.

My advice is to stick it out on that floor...if you request a transfer you will more than likely get put into one of the older high rises that are WAY away from the "Leoser" complex (read: farther from the cafeteria, convenience store, computer labs, classroom buidling, etc.). Besides, the AOPi floor is on one of the more newly remodeled floors! AND, I totally give props to your new roommate for upholding strict silence, as they are supposed to do at NSU. I know that makes it difficult for you, though!

Don't worry about going through recruitment while living on their floor! It will totally be okay! I would bet that there are girls living on the other sorority floors who will be in your exact same situation! This has happened for the past few years that I can remember, at least. And, if you happen to pledge the sorority whose floor you live on, then you won't have to move! And if you don't, right after recruitment, new members flock to the housing office to put in room transfers to any available rooms on the sorority's floor they have pledged. It costs like $10 for a room change (may have gone up since my day!) and all your new sisters will help you move (if need be!). If there aren't any rooms available immediately, then you can move at semester, too. I HIGHLY recommend living on the floor if you join a sorority at NSU...it's a GREAT experience...I lived on my floor for 3 years and LOVED it!

Good Luck!!!!

As far as meeting other freshman...are you attending Rookie Bridge Camp? My advice would definitely be to go to one of the sessions...I'm sure you'll make a friend or two there (whose probably going through recruitment, too) and explain to them your situation...that your new roommate who you don't know is in a sorority and due to recruitment rules you can't go places together...I'm sure it will be okay! Besides, you'll only have 2 weeks of that...which I know can seem insufferable, but you'll manage! I have confidence that as outgoing as you seem you can make friends!

Good luck!

at penn state we have sorority floors and we have sororities living in east halls where the freshman typically are. our floor often gets filled by freshman. we are only alloted 20 rooms out of 28 because some of the sorority floors down in south halls only have 20 rooms on the floor. they do this to make it equal. we're never roomed with a random though. housing let's us have singles so it doesn't happen. i wouldn't be too worried about pledging a different sorority than aopi. chances are 2nd semester you'll be able to move on to your sorority's floor when some of the sister's go abroad and they need to fill spaces. also, we aren't allowed to pledge someone who is living on our floor. if they wind up in our sorority housing moves them. it has something to do with the possibility for hazing or something. i'm not too sure what the offical say is. i hope everything works out for you!

Back in the early 90's I attended Morehead State University in Ky. My freshman year I was stuck in a suite on the Delta Gamma floor. I did not go through rush that year. My experience was living w/the DG's was not that great. If you weren't a DG you were not accepted and if you had to be in one of the 5 sororities in order to be accepted. THere was a DZ in the suite next to ours w/3 DG's and one DZ. The DG's got really angry that she did not pledge DG so they made her life miserable. I think it was worse for me since I didn't rush that year. One of the pledge sisters from DG, who I knew from one class, came up to me in the hall one day and asked if I would be moving out so that one of the pledges could stay in my place on the DG floor. Two months later I moved out. I could not take the stress and from just being around the DG's I really disliked greeks especially DELTA GAMMA's! My sophomore year, I lived on an independant floor in the sorority hall. That was a much better experience. I got to meet alot of the girls in the sororities~especially the DZ's and CHI-O's. So when spring rush rolled around I went thru informal and pledged DZ. Not all sororities are alike and towards the end of my sophomore year I met some DG's I became friends with. I guess you can't judge an organization by 3 people like I did. I hope your experience w/the AOPi's is better than mine was. I wish you the best of luck.