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When You Made IT!!
To all who would reply: i would like to know your experience in finding out you had been accepted (or i beleive the term is Bid)by your current sorority of frat. Did u expect it?
I don't wish to offend and if this is private my deepest apologies go out to u.....God Bless!! |
i was really stunned when i saw my bid card. i had thought for sure that i'd get my bid from the sorority that i had preffed, but i ended up getting my second choice. i wasn't sad, since my second choice is actually considered better on my campus, but i had thought that i clicked more with my first choice sorority during rush. i called my family and friends to tell them how it turned out, then i started getting ready for bid night. even though i got my second choice, everything has turned out great and i'd never want to be anywhere else http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
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I attened an informal rush, so we didn't know when the sisters decided who to pass out bids to. Me and Eileen (a sister of mine, but she wasn't a sister at the time) had just gotten back from a rush party. We headed back to her room because she lived on a smoking wing and I didn't (I smoked at the time) we had no idea the sisters were going to hand out bids that night--we had JUST come from a party, we figured it would be at least a week before we'd know even the smallest detail. So we are sitting around talking about how 'cool' and 'great' it would be to get a bid. My roommate walks down the hall and into the room and says that someone called and said that they wanted me to come outside (our dorms were locked all the time, only people who lived there had keys). So I went downstairs. There were all the sisters holding a bid card and a TON of balloons.After my initial shock was over, they called Eileen. They didn't want to tell us at the same time because if they called up at the same time for us to come down, we might figure out what was going on. It was so cool. That is my Delta Zeta experience. My Sigma Alpha Iota experience, the sister called me down, I knew it was them because the door was under my window so I could see everyone outside. I went down and they sang to me and offered me the bid. It was so cool too. I was so excited. Anyway. . . that was long.
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I rushed four houses, and liked all four, but really liked two, one of which was LXA. The bids came in a variety of ways - one via intercampus mail (not very impressive...), one was by the rush chairman by himself, but the one I like best, LXA, was best. The entire chapter came to my dorm room.
I was studying when a knock came at the door. I tried the peephole, but it was blacked out...when I opened the door - there were 40 men standing there. They handed me my bid, and all came forward to shake my hand and to congratulate me. The rest is history. Bids are very important, and, they need to be treated as such...getting that one via intercampus mail was too impersonal, and I never even replied or called, nor did they follow up. Their loss. |
I was sooo scared (since I was a senior with a year to go) that I wouldn't get a bid. I had talked with my Rho Chi's about it (I was already friends with one of them from my first year) and they said that unfortunately that may be true since sororities were looking for younger girls who would be around for awhile.
We were told after signing our bid cards that it would be within 2 hours so we had to go straight to our rooms. We were told that the people who didn't get bids would get a visit from our Rho Chi's first so they could leave the dorms or whatever when everybody started cheering and stuff. So I was lying on my couch shaking when my PX's came in - not an hour after signing my bid card. They said in a sweet calm voice "can we come in?" I knew for sure I was out. Then they started screaming and handed me the AXO envelope. I was SO EXCITED! Then we all met up on the hall and the sisters were singing and stuff when we were allowed in. It was so cool, but I like bid day MUCH better at the chapter I advise now. They do bid matching on Sat. night after pref and then on Sunday all the sororities meet at 2pm in our student union auditorium. We start singing and cheering our individual group stuff until the Rho Chi groups are led in. Then we start singing greek unity songs and cheering and stuff. Then each Rho Chi group is led up one at a time, the girl's name is called and then they say her new chapter. After they go through the line, they say "GO TO YOUR SORORITY"! It's so way cool since the sister's have no idea until that point who is going where. I've heard this was the last year though, since those that don't make quota (usually only the smallest chapter on campus) feel bad...one year this group only had like 4 girls when quota was around 20ish. Starting next year I think the new girls are going to a room with the alums and then led down to the chapter room one by one to be introduced to the chapter. ------------------ "Alpha Chi Omega - If you only had 2 wishes, what would your second one be?" |
My experience was unusual in that I didn’t attend any actual “rush” events at the fraternity that I ended up joining. What happened was my dorm roommate received a ticket to one of their parties from a guy in his psychology class. My roommate was going home for the weekend, so he passed the ticket on to me. I figured I would at least stop by because I knew that a guy I played volleyball with in high school was in that house, so I could say hi to him. Well, he ended up not showing up at the party until much later, but in the course of waiting for him I got to meet quite a few of the guys, including the rush chairman.
They invited me back to the house for dinner the following Wednesday, and I had a feeling that they were going to give me a bid as well. I wasn’t sure if I was going to accept it though, because there were still a couple of other houses that I was hoping to hear from. But I went for dinner, and found that I got along really well with the guys. After dinner I sat down in the living room with the rush chairman and several of the senior leaders of the house, and they explained to me their bid process, what they look for in a new member, etc. I was excited and anxious because I knew this was the point where they give me the bid. Sure enough, they gave it to me, and I accepted it right then and there. They announced it to the whole house, and everyone came to say congratulations. Two interesting footnotes...the guy who originally gave my dorm roommate the ticket to the party ended up being my pledge dad, and I brought my roommate to some of our rush events the following semester, and he ended up joining as well. So each of us is responsible for the other one being in the house. LXAAlum, I agree with you that getting a bid in the mail is really tacky. I’ve never heard of a house doing that. They probably mailed a bid to every single person who rushed their house...sounds like a desperate move to me. |
It was really cool when I found out I got a bid. I rushed a professional fraternity, so I wasn't required to attend any other GLO's rush events (I had the option, but I didn't take it). Usually by the end of the 3rd week (yes.. 3 WEEKS of rush!), interests still attending were serious about the house. In fact, my semester was the last semester for this, but our auditions were on the Thursday the last week of rush (It's an arts fraternity, so the audition was a requirement for consideration.. now it is a requirement during new member ed..but anyways..). After audtions (and now, after the last event) all of the actives stay and vote on bids.
My experience as a rushee: There were about 4 other girls on my hall rushing the same GLO. We were told to go straight to our rooms (or give the actives a place we would be that they could find us) until we heard from them that night. So we all went back and were kind of nervous and stuff. Then, all of our about-to-be big sis/bros snuck on the hall and decorated around our doors with "Welcome to Phi Beta" signs and balloons and stuff!. Then they knocked our doors and gave us our bids and told us they were our bigs! It was so exciting, especially since there were a bunch of us right there! ------------------ SilverTurtle@greekchat.com Phi Beta Fraternity Phi chapter |
okay--i just started pledging about three weeks ago but that day is always going to stand out in my mind. pref day was in the morning and they were extending bids at 8 o'clock that evening. i was excited about pref day because i liked all three of the sororities i was pledging but i had my heart set on tri-sigma and was really nervous about getting my bid. so i'm already a bundle of nerves, and then my boyfriend of a year and a half decides to break up with me and so now i'm a crying, heartbroken bundle of nerves. my rho-chi called to tell me that i had gotten a bid and to meet in the student center where we'd all find out where we got our bids from. i met up with all the girls in my rho chi group and they handed us our envelopes and i opened mine with another girl who wanted tri-sig and we had both gotten in. we all ran around excited, meeting the people who were now our pledge sisters and taking pictures and stuff. then we went into the auditorium and all the girls from all the sororities were there and the rho-chi's were all onstage and they took off their panhellenic shirts and had their sorority's bid day shirt underneath. then we ran across the stage and they put our sorority's bid-day t-shirt on us and then we all ran back in the pouring rain to the house.
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You've got to email daisymargarita who's also a new tri-sig member! I'm sure you'll have lots to "talk" about! Congratulations and good luck! ------------------ "Alpha Chi Omega - If you only had 2 wishes, what would your second one be?" |
I tell you I was having one hell of a day. It was cold outside, my car broke down, I had bags of groceries, my feet were cold, I couldn't get a taxi, me and my boyfriend were going through a "thing". When I got home I just said I needed something good to happen that week -- AND IT HAPPENED!!!
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Hey, I'm the other new tri-sig! At my school (where tri-sig was founded actually) they're one of the least popular sororities. But let me tell you, I had the BEST time with them tonight, and I'm glad I made the choice I did! I love my new sisters!!!
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I started school in fall of 1993 as a junior coming into school as a transfer student. I played rugby that sememster and there was a hall mate of mine that was curious about rushing a fraternity. We both decided to go out and meet their chapter in this conference room on campus. I thought they were pretty cool but that next week after I went to a pizza night I never heard back from them. Their loss...Well, I didnt check anyone else out that semsester and just thought I'd kind of scope the campus out and really go out for rush the next semester. During that fall sesmester there was a guy in one of my Govt. classes who was a Beta. I never knew that. He never mentioned it and I never saw him with letters on. Anyway he was a cool guy and we randomally met up at Fat Tuesdays, this bar close to school and hed taxi me back a couple times after last call. Note: Later he ended up being my big brother. Well, the spring semester of 1994 I came out and I went to one particular fraternity's rush events a few nights but then I thought I really need to check another one out. So midweek I went up to a rush table of another fraternity and then the Thursday night of that week I went to an event. I got to meet a quite a bit of the brothers and I was really impressed. I really liked them and thought they were a good group of guys. Very genuine in my eyes and there were other reasons. So we, the rushees got to scope out their house(off campus), not a tipical fraterntiy row house but a very nice one I must say. Later there was a theme party I think. Which blew me away. That next week I met up with the President of the Beta Theta Pi Chapter informally for lunch and he extended me a bid. I dont think words could describe how I felt. I was excited, but that was only the beginning....
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I'll help revive this thread!
At UK all the girls that received a bid assemble into one room (which is hard for almost 900 girls to do) & our Rho Chi's passed out our bid cards. (If you didn't receive a bid your Rho Chi would call you in the morning to let you know.) After the Rho Chi's do a cheer to let us know which sorority they were in we were shuffled off to another building where we met in a room w/ the other girls that also received a bid to the same sorority. Since I suicided Sigma Kappa I felt fuzzy ever since that morning when I didn't receive a phone call! Our New Member chair taught us some Sigma Kappa cheers & we introduced ourselves. Then we started our walk to our house & cheered the whole way! It was such a great day! :) |
We had to stand in line at our Greek Advisor's office and we were each called in separately to get our bids. I kept seeing the women who I thought were going ADPi leaving the office with large, square envelopes.
Then it was my turn - and I was handed a small envelope. I almost burst into tears right then and there, because I had tried to cancel my second choice & suicide, and wasn't permitted to do so. Was I ever excited that I got the RIGHT bid!!! :) |
On Bid Day '97, we met in classrooms at the College of Education. Each Recruitment Counselor Traveling Group (4 counselors and their groups) had its own classroom. (Prior, anyone who had not received a bid was called, so all the women in the room that morning DID have a bid.)
The PX's handed out white envelopes and we were told to wait until everyone had theirs. The wait was AGONIZING! The night before at Pref, I knew in my heart where I wanted to be, but there was that nagging "What if" pestering me to also consider my second choice... and perhaps to make it my first. Ultimately, I realized as much as I loved #2, #1 was my home from the beginning. The PX's finally finished handing out the envelopes and at last, allowed us to open them. The frenzied sound of ripping paper filled the room, punctuated by exclamations and tears of joy. Beaming, I carefully read the words: The ladies of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority at the University of Central Florida cordially invite you to join their sisterhood. Joyfully, I ran down Greek Row to my new home with the other new members, and 7 years later, ADPi still is and will always be my #1. :) |
My experience was much like adpiucf's except it happened 2 years later.
Even funnier that she was a PX in my Recruitment Counselor Traveling Group so she was there when I got my bid card. :) I remember sitting in the back of the room with the girls in my PX group and we were all talking about how nervous we were. Our PX called us up one by one to the front of the room. We opened our bid cards in front of everyone. I really wanted my #1 choice and would have been happy with #2. I was really scared that I was going to get a sorority that I hadn't even put on my bid card and I'd have to just put a fake smile on my face so that my PX group wouldn't see me burst into tears. I opened my bid card and it said "The Eta Kappa Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha cordially invites you to pledge". I was so excited! I started jumping up and down and gave my PX a huge hug! |
We all went into separate classrooms with our rho gammas, and then they handed out envelopes to all of us, but we weren't allowed to open them until everyone had theirs. The funny thing was that you could see that some envelopes were cream and some were white, and you could sort of compare the handwriting, so I knew the girl next to me was going to get a bid from the same house as me! And then we opened our envelopes, and I saw that my card said Theta, my first choice, so I was really happy and almost more than that, just relieved! After that I went out and called my parents, then all of us went back into this big auditorium where we found out the affliation of our rho gammas and split up into our new pledge classes. The funny thing was that one of our rho gammas was a Theta, and about half my rho gamma group ended up in Theta! Then it was back up to separate classrooms again, where we met the Theta president and VP education. Then one at a time the pledge classes were let out of the building and were swarmed by the actives who were outside with signs and balloons, cheering and yelling! Really fun!
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One of the fun traditions at UCF is that after you receive your bid, all the new members congregate in the gym. They sit according to sorority, marked off with banners made by the PX's. Then, Pan Exec reveals their affiliations and makes a couple of speeches. And then.... they introduce the PX's, who are supposed to run into the gym in their letters, reaffiliated for the first time all summer! EXCEPT... that we've actually swapped shirts with a PX friend in another chapter. So we run in, wearing the wrong shirt, seeing looks of puzzlement on the new members' faces, as they're thinking they've figured us out. And at last, we run back out, furiously swap back to the right letter shirt, and are introduced in our real letters! :) |
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I was told that you guys would even wear certain items or do your hair/makeup in certain ways to make us think you were in a different sorority than you really were. For instance, I think there was a PX who was a Pi Phi who purposely wore bright eye shadow one day to make us think she was in a certain sorority (that will remain namelss). I know that Kerri would purposely put her hair in a bow to make us think she was in another sorority when she was really an ADPi (I bet you can think of the sorority she was trying to pretend she was in ;) ). |
Well I actually went through a structured informal rush during spring semester so there was an open house where we could meet all sororities.. then we could choose which parties to attend on our own, but sororities had to hold bids until Friday... so I was nervous because it wasn't spelled out you will get your bid by coming here at this time.. you just knew anytime on or after Friday they could extend you a bid... didn't know if they would call.. find you... etc... so I'm like super nervous because there's two sororities I really would like to get a bid from... (it was possible to get more than 1 bid because it was informal) and I REALLY wasn't sure which one was on top at all so I was just hoping that at least one of them liked me. SOO Friday morning I wake up get to class and get out at aroudn 11:30 (bids are held until 12.... at 12 I go to the bookstore to pick up some stuff and when I come out there was some Phi Sigs standing in the quad...they called me over and handed me a red rose and a bid card :) and invited me to go out with them later that night. On my way home I got a call from the other sorority that I wanted... they extended me a bid as well.... well... I didn't know what to do but I went home and took my 24 hours to decide... and I actually went to an event for sorority #2 that night since I didn't feel like I had hung out with them as much as Phi Sig.... then I talked with another girl who was rushing after that event who had also received bids to both sororities and we talk and deliberated together... and actually ended up going different places... and I believe we are both very proud members of our orgs... I'm actually quite positive I would've been very happy in the other chapter as well and have many friends in that chapter and love the girls... but Phi Sig is where I belong :D
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The most ironic thing about Jenny crying about my "sorority" was that her sister was in my new member class, and even though they are 2 years apart, the look like twins. And I kept calling her by her sisters' name (who was also her roommate, who is also MY Diamond Sister's best friend! How her sister kept me covered up, I'll never know! But she must have laughed like crazy when Jenny came home after Forum and said, "My PX is Abbey and I am SOOOO sure she's a KD!) |
Dont even remember my experience as a new chosen Pledge of a Fraternity:cool:
Was booted out anyway and started my own as a Local!:) We did formal rush and our first one, did not get a single person!:( I dont even know if there is a formal rush now at The Pitt!:o Seems more open rushing/recruiting for at least the Fraternitys! I remember one time going to school at the Pitt and seeing all of the Soroity Ladies of a Chapter all dressed up at a Patron/Alums House there and thought wow is that Neat!:cool: So, it sounds like there are these things still going on and I am glad!:cool: It shows caring by the Chapters and Greek Organizations!:) |
I came into Tri-Sigma a few weeks ago through COB. I'd been COB- ing for almost 2 weeks.
After my 3rd COB event, their recruitment director said she'd call me after the weekend. I waited all weekend, and got no phone call on Monday. As I was leaving class the same day, the recruitment dir. caught me on the way out and asked me to yet another COB. I agreed, figuring it wouldn't be anything special. Me and another girl went to the house that night. We weren't doing anything, but playing board games. About an hour in, the recruitment director tells everyone to be quiet because she has an announcement to make. I wasn't paying attention because I figured her announcement was for the sisters. Everyone got quiet, and the NM Educator came out w/ bid day goody bags for us and said: "The sisters of Tri-Sigma invite you to join our sisterhood." I said yes and we went to Dairy Queen to celebrate :) |
Jocelyn, that is very similar to what our girls did to the COBers this time too! They invited the girls who were getting in to another "COB event." Then they surprised them by extending them bids to Chi Omega.
Ah, bid day of 1990.....so long ago. I just remember going up to the student center in this huge herd of girls and waiting in line. There was one long table where they had all the bids and you gave your name and they pulled your envelope out of the little box. I knew from my PX that I had a bid but I didn't know if it would be from Chi O or from Alpha Phi. I opened the envelope and was truly surprised to read "The sisters of Chi Omega cordially invite..." I went flying down the stairs and passed my friend Aimee, and I yelled "What are you????" and she yelled "A Xi D!!!!" and I yelled "Chi Omega!!!!!" I ran down to join my sisters and I will never forget the way they jumped on me when I came out! I do remember looking around for one of my good friends to see where she'd gone...she had been cut from Chi O after 3rd party but had preffed at Alpha Phi and DG. We had been thinking we might end up sisters together at Phi but I looked for her there and at DG and she never came. Later I found out from her sister (who had rushed with us and was in my new pledge class at Chi O) that she'd gotten a call from her PX the night before.....no bid. There was a happy ending though....she went through rush again the next year and met a LOT more girls, and she got into Chi O! The day after bid day there was a huge picture on the front page of the campus newspaper of me hugging her as she came down to join us. |
I went through spring informal recruitment, where you got to see all the bids extended to you. You had to go sit down at a table with a member from panhel who handed you an envelope with your bids in them. My roomate came with me because I was so nervous, even though I thought I'd end up getting a bid. The first bid I opened was Chi O and I was so excited I turned around grinning to my roomate and excitedly rambled to the panhel about how much I wanted Chi O, then went to the back of the room and jumped up and down and cried with my roomate from excitement! We all met at the house for our bid day celebration, and it felt so wonderful to walk in and get hugs, even from the girls I hadn't met!
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At UNLV, everyone meets in the student union in the ball room first everyday of recruitment. On bid day it is no diffrent. At the time (1999) they did garunteed bidding so I knew I would get one of my three choices. I was pretty certian I would be happy in Adpi or my second choice but I wasn't sure about my third the girls were nice but they just weren't "me". So when I arrived at the ball room I was pretty nervous, and I was thinking I would end up in my second choice because they had just colonized the year before and were most in need of new members. I held my bid card, steeling myself for the dissapointment and having to face the Adpi's who I had become friends with, and when I opened it the first thing I saw was a Crest headed with a roaring lion. I heaved a sigh of relief and kind of went yess!! internally. Then the rho chi's revealed themselves and my rho chi Abbey (whom I had been convinced was a Delta Zeta because she was blonde) led me and the rest of the new alphas across the hall to a meeting room where all of my new sisters waited with presents. Then we all dressed in our shiny new bid day shirts and went to take pictures by "the flashlight" (the requisite celebrating following, of course) and the rest is history.
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I went through formal recruitment, which takes place over four days right before second semester. The third day is when the rest of the campus moves in, though. Anyway, on the fourth day, we attend preference parties in the afternoon and then we are on silence - which is really hard when all your friends who didn't go through recruitment have moved back into your dorm and are being all chatty! Members of Panhel "patrol" the dorm halls to make sure none of us are talking to anyone. ;)
Anyway, if you got a bid, a member of Panhel will come knock on your door at 7pm-ish and as soon as that happens, you put on shoes and a coat and book it, I mean book it, "up the hill", which is literally up the hill from where the dorms are to Central Hall to the dean's floor, where they assemble all the girls. The girls all open their bid cards at one time and then run down the three flights of stairs and out of Central Hall. I don't know where all the other sororities meet their new members, but Pi Phis stand right at the steps of Central Hall and the Kappas wait at the bottom of the hill near their house. My roommate and I both went through formal and when we got the knock, thankfully the girls told us both at the same time that we had received bids so we could run together. We both knew that it was Pi Phi, since it was the only one on my list, and she was a legacy. When we got our bid cards, they had our names handwritten on the front, so we located all the other girls with the same handwriting and stood with them, because we knew we were all Pi Phis. :) Then we ran down the stairs into a gaggle of our new sisters, and the rest is history! |
Received a phone call from the national director of expansion a few days after I interviewed with him.
After that, I was a colonist for three years. When I was VP in the third year, we sent off our petition. I believe we heard back in October of 2001. We then held the chartering ceremony and were fully initiated on March 9th, 2002. So essentially, I was a pledge for 3 years :D |
Well, I went through a structured informal as well. After 3 parties, including a pref ceremony, i went home. I was a commuter to UNT, as most of the girls were, and Lived 25 minutes away. I remember hugging one of the girls ( A HUGE NO NO, but I initiated it, so she obliged) she told me not to worry about anything. I went home that night and straighted up my living room because I was sooooo nervous. Then I got a call! It was 10 and the girls were tired, but they wanted to make sure it was okay for one of them to drop by in an hour or so. They apologized for the time and hung up. Sure enough, at 11pm, what was to be my future Diamond sister knocked on my door. She handed me the white envelope, and waited to see my reaction. I was soooooo excited!!! I never dreamed sorority life was for me. But after 3 parties, I knew ADPI was home!! SHe hugged me, handed me a bid shirt, explained the process and said she would see me tomorrow night at our slumber party! It was one of the best nights of my life!!
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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!!
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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 :)
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it all works out in the end
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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. :-) |
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!
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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 ;)
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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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