[texas*princess]

I think I'm going to have to agree with the other posters by saying you should probably focus on your GPA if you want to give it another go next year. While your GPA may be slightly above the minimum to rush, sometimes groups will make their minimum to join way above that.

Maybe it might help to get involved with some campus activities. Since many sorority women are involved it would be a great way to meet them.

Unfortunately, those may not even help you get a bid next year. We don't know that. Maybe it will? Once again, we don't know. We can't really give you the "light at the end of the tunnel" that you are looking for because no one here knows why things didn't work out.

Maybe it might help to go to the Greek Life office and see if the sororities will be participating in COR either after Fall recruitment or in Spring. Maybe you should try other organizations on campus - there may be co-ed service GLO's or perhaps organizations built around your major to help you meet more people.

Re: the engaged/married thing - that is also something that only people on that campus may be able to tell you since it varies from campus to campus. It might be cool with them at one campus, but the climate might be different on another campus. On my old campus, the only girls who were in sororities and engaged/married were about to graduate. Some sororities may give the sister the option to go alum early if they got married, but once again, that varies.