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.