[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by bear_down

UA recruitment is extremely competitive and you have basically used your best chance of receiving a bid. There really isn't such a thing as a do-over here.

Without knowing details about you and your personality, the big objective things that hurt you during your first recruitment were:

-Class standing. Sophomores can get bids, although not frequently. Freshmen have a huge advantage.
-Grades. Academics are very important with UA sororities, and particularly important with one you were in love with. Why would a chapter keep inviting back a sophomore with marginal grades when they could invite a freshman with a 4.0 they liked just as much?
-Recs. You need them at all the UA chapters.
-Blog. You didn't do yourself any favors by putting that blog up. Although chapters may not have seen it during recruitment, they most certainly have now. It's pretty obvious who you are and VERY obvious which chapters you're talking about.

So there really aren't a lot of things you can change in that list come fall. AFAIK everyone made quota and the few chapters who may have COR/spring recruitment will be the very same houses you didn't like during formal.

Juniors occasionally get bids, but they aren't shy, introrverted, uninvolved re-rushers with marginal GPAs. They are women who are already well known to the members and truly extraordinary in all areas. You're also dealing with chapters that have a "once cut always cut" policy, so even if you change radically before fall, you'll still get cut from them immediately.

I know this all sounds harsh, but it's the reality you are dealing with here.

Applause.