Panhellenic Ladies: POLL-Did you join through formal or COR?
 

Formal Rush. I honestly thought that anyone who wasn't in a fraternity or a sorority had tried to get a bid but didn't! Also, my chapter was really, really, really awful at COB - we did well at FR so we would be spared the embarrassment!

Back in the day... We didn't have COR at all. We had two formal recruitments and that was it. We did snap bidding too, but we never did COR. Therefore, I went through formal, second semester of my freshman year.

Dee

Neither- I went through a colonization recruitment ;)

Formal recruitment... I didn't even know there was any other kind at the time.

Spring Rush, which is informal rush I guess, similar to formal in some ways and similar to COR in others.

It was informal rush at that time (now COR or COB depending on your location).

I think I wish I would have gone through Formal Rush, but really was clueless during my first months of my Freshman year (too wrapped up in a STUPID boyfriend...ew ew ew).

I am sure I ended up where I belong :) so it all works out how it is suppose to work.

Co-sign

They just didn't have the rules the FR has (ie. hot boxing).

COB. I was initiated in the spring.

Although at that time I didn't know what COB was because I wasn't on GC yet.

I went through formal rush.

I didn't go through rush. Sororities started recruiting me my junior year of high school and I had a bid before I even graduated.








Ok, ok....I went through formal :)

Formal recruitment, fall 03 (freshman year) :)

HAhahahahaha! Was it your grandmother's sorority? :D


Formal rush--although I'd received an informal bid from another sorority at a different school the spring before and declined it.

I went through Formal my freshman year, but dropped out after 3rd stage. I was completely overwhelmed and was convinced Greek life was not for me. I had bought into all the sorority stereotypes of bubbleheaded girls who were only interested in parties, fashion and finding a boyfriend. Formal Recruitment with all it's hooplah, singing and forced cheerfulness had only confirmed my suspicions that I didn't want any part of it.

Or so I thought. I spent that next year getting to know alot of other women in various houses. I realized that I was completely wrong about the whole system. While the process of Formal Recruitment can be pretty fake and goofy, the girls who belonged to these houses weren't.

So I decided to try it again my sophomore year with a much more open mind and alot more maturity. Fortuantely for me Illinois was more open to sophomore pledges than alot of other campuses.

Something else. ADPi was my second choice on my bid card. At first I was crushed, but decided to give it a shot. Turned out it was the best thing that ever happened to me. While I'm sure I would have found friends at my first choice, I really fell in love with ADPi and my sisters.

I often tell the members my story and they're surprised. They think I was must have worn ADPi diapers or something because I'm so committed. They're even more shocked to learn I was a pretty average member who never held an office. After graduating I kept in touch with some of my closest friends, but rarely thought about my sorority after college was done.

It wasn't until I moved to here and didn't know a soul in about a 400 mile radius, that I decided to get involved. To be honest, it still wasn't some overwhelming desire to give back to my sorority. I just wanted to meet some people and figured my sisters at Alabama would be a good place to start.

Here I am 10 years later. The committment I had back in college doesn't hold a candle to what I feel now. It just goes to show that a sorority is for a lifetime. Some of us realize that a little later in life though.

I joined through formal recruitment the first semester of my freshman year. I got my 1st choice.

Colonization recruitment

Bad, bad KR!! I was actually groaning as I read that!! :D

Formal recruitment, but I was "rescued"...dropped after novelty round, but given a bid by my no. 1 through some miracle of God. I can't imagine life without Tau Delta...it makes me misty eyed.

I joined through recruitment my second/sophmore year (although I still had only 15 hours b/c I had to WD due to a death in the family my second semester).

I didn't go through that first semester b/c of the then "love of my life" aka "mister manipulative" and he didn't think it was a good idea. It had been my grandmother's fondest wish that I go through recruitment, so when I went back to school I did. Boy, did I have one smart grandmother. I love my sisters and my sorority and could not imagine life without them.

I always jealous of those who were Alpha Xi Delta colony members. Not only would it have been exciting to start a new chapter but they get our cool new member colony pin. :D

COB in the fall semester. There are 7 NPC sororities at Long Beach & my top three choices were Delta Zeta, Tri-Delta, & Sigma Kappa. I had to drop out of formal recruitment b/c my work & school schedule did not allow me to much time to go the the parties so I dropped. :( Lucky for me, my load lightened & I found out that Sigma Kappa & AOII were having COB events. Sigma Kappa's event was first so I went there first & ended up having such a great time, I stayed there & received a bid. YAY!

Ha ha ha, awesome. I was also formal recruitment, but not until my sophomore year. I went through the whole week and didn't tell my own mister manipulative until the afternoon before preference round that I was going through recruitment at all! Boy was he pissed... :D

Formal. My chapter doesn't COB.

I joined through a structured informal recruitment.

I joined through Formal Recruitment, got my first choice going in.

informal recruitment... we do COR all year but we have formal and informal recruitment weeks as well

COB my sophomore year. My chapter was still a colony, so they did COB after formal recruitment.

Informal recuitment for my local, then we affiliated with a national.

I started formal and dropped out because of work but Tri Delta extended me a bid anyway.

COB fall semester my freshman year... So about a month after school started...

I started formal recruitment at the beginning of my freshman year, but dropped out. I joined my local sorority via informal recruitment the following week. About 1-1/2 years later, my local affiliated with AEPhi.

COB, fall semester of soph. year.

Formal Recruitment, fall of my sophomore year.

I originally went through Formal Recruitment, but there's kind of a weird story behind it. I was invited back to five of the nine chapters at Baylor, and therefore, I had to rank my invites back without dropping any. Not knowing a lot about KD aside from the chick who was currently in the process of stealing the WA governor's race is an alum (I'm still convinced she didn't win, sister or not, plus she said way too much about initiation to a Seattle newspaper, arrgh!), I ranked it last. Anyway, the next day, when we got our schedules back for the first day, KD wasn't on the list even though I was supposed to go to all the parties who has invited me back. What the banana? Anyway, I stuck it out until the last day, and after that first day, I had a terrible time because only one chapter was inviting me back, and I just wasn't feeling like they were as involved in campus events as I wanted a sorority to be. I didn't want to rule out snap bids from larger chapters where I felt more comfortable, so I withdrew from recruitment before signing the bid card, regretfully, with one of the rho chis. (I even panicked and called her after signing it asking if I'd checked the snap bid box!) This rho chi, who I didn't know was a KD, apparently went back to her chapter before Bid Day and told the whole "computer glitch" story (the system we were using was acting really funny with me, even listing all the chapters as invites back for the first day when I'd sat down and ranked my one invite back for the second day, aughh!) to the chapter, and they extended me a bid that night before Bid Day. So, technically, I was a COR "snap bid," and thank goodness, because I ended up in a chapter that was just right for me!

It's funny how this works out--I'm noticing that a lot of other folks on here didn't get their first choice but ended up in just the right chapter anyway--that's kind of cool.

I went through formal recruitment way late in my collegiate career. But things definetly worked out the way they were supposed to . Theta was definetly my top choice and I was devistated when I didnt recieve and Invite to Prefs with them. But I still completed formal recruitment and low and behold on bid day, I was the happiest girl to open a bid that said Kappa Alpha Theta. Things work for a reason. However mysterious, I was meant to be a Theta and couldnt be happier.

Ditto! :)

I went through Formal Rush as a Freshman in the Fall of 1996 (it was not called recruitment until the next year)!!

Formal recruitment the week before fall semester my freshmen year!