socal uc rerushing advice?
 

Hi! So long story short, I rushed for the first time this fall as a sophomore and made the mistake of going into rush wanting one particular house (despite being warned against it). I was dropped from that house in the middle of rush and dropped out of recruitment. I'm more open-minded now in retrospect and am still interested in joining the Greek community, but I don't know if re-rushing will drastically decrease my chances or not. If I do go through formal recruitment again, I will be a third year. I go to UCSD and I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice as to how my particular school generally regards 3rd year, 2nd time rushees?

Any information on COB would be nice too (I have no idea how that works here).

Thank you!

(This may be in the wrong thread...I'm new here, sorry! Please feel free to move it!)

This poster is rapidly becoming...er...far from impressive, let's say. ETA: SwingPhiSwinggg, not Tulip.

To the OP, hopefully someone can give their opinion about your school's recruitment, but there are two general answers we can give you: First, you can't get in if you don't try. Unless it's going to devastate you to be dropped, there's no harm in going through recruitment. As always, grades, recs, and personality will matter. The better the grades, the more complete recs, and the better your communication skills the better you'll do. Second, for COB it's always best to call the Greek life office to make sure you get up to date and correct information. I would call once you get back on campus and ask for details.

Since you dropped out before bid day you'd be eligible for COB. Keep an eye (and ear) out for Winter COB events. There probably won't be as many, or as publicized, as in the Spring though. If you know any girls that are in chapters, you may want to casually bring up that you're interested in sorority life. Some chapters may have so few openings that they are not doing a full COB with open parties.

UCSD is not known to be prejudicial against 2nd timers, or non 1st years. The key is to be honest about what happened; if it comes up. Also, it's not uncommon for 3rd, or even 4th, years to go through recruitment successfully. I believe seniors are "free" but I'm not sure about juniors. If you contact Panhellenic, they should be able to confirm what the policy has been for recent years.

If you do wait for Fall Formal, make sure your GPA and activities are the best you can get. As a 3rd year, you'll be competing with transfer students as well as 2nd and 1st years. The transfers will be coming in with high GPAs and the sororities may or may not care that your (hypothetically) lower GPA was earned at UCSD while the transfer's (hypothetically) higher GPA was earned at some far easier school.

Thank you for the helpful responses! To be considered competitive, what would be a good gpa? (Obviously the higher the better but...just wondering haha).

Information regarding a GLO's overall GPA (i.e. for all the active members, not individuals) is typically reported on the Panhellenic and IFC websites, or on the school's Greek Office website. That's a good place to do some searching so you'll see what the "mean" GPA is for each chapter. Good idea to not be below that overall GPA. Ideally you'd be way above it.


Here's a link with some grade reports for the various chapters at UCSD. Fall quarter grades haven't yet been reported:

http://panhellenicucsd.org/scholarship