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Whether you're talking about Tennessee or Texas, you'll need recs. Start getting them now. When chapters do informal (at schools like these), they generally need only a few members, and often, they have some idea of who they want, ie. a good friend of one of their actives who just pledged. It might not be anything personally wrong with you that you didn't get a bid. As a sophomore, you'll get cut by some chapters right off the bat, but it's not impossible to get a bid if you are a good candidate otherwise and keep an open mind.