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

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.

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.

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"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!



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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.

How exciting! That sounds like a lot of fun without the pressure of how many girls each sorority got!

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!



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"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!!!

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!!!

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....

Kevin Mullinix
Beta Theta Pi

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!!! :)