Hi everyone!
To make a very long story a bit shorter (since this is my second time typing this up after I accidentally deleted the first post
), I go to OSU and decided relatively late into winter break to sign up for formal recruitment this semester. It went well until sisterhood round, which is when I got called back to only one house that I already wasn't liking too well. I made myself keep an open mind, but felt very little connection between the girls I talked with (I understand not being best friends with everyone in your sorority, but there really was no sense of sisterhood among them). Come preference round, I knew that I was going to drop rush, but honestly did try to give them a chance. After all, a lot of times your opinion of a house can change for the better in the next round, so I didn't want to not make any rash decisions. However, even after pref I still felt that this wasn't somewhere I'd be comfortable in, plus I didn't want to take a spot from a girl who wanted to be there, so I dropped out and didn't sign the MRABA.
Well, as many of you know from this forum, ZTA is colonizing at OSU. I checked them out because I was interested in them, but since 550+ girls were trying to get into the 194 spots that could be offered, a lot of people had to be cut, me being one of them (I'll admit, the rejection text I got this morning stung a lot more than I thought it would. I know it's not personal, but it's hard to not feel like it is).
Now I'm unsure of what to do. The house I ended up turning down is inviting me to COB events, but I'm not sure if this is the best thing for me to do. Other than that, I was thinking of do fall informal rush or even just go through spring rush again next year. If you all were in my shoes, what would you do?
PS, here are some other relevant things about me:
- Since I decided so late in the game to try out rush, I didn't have time to get recs. Even though OSU really isn't big on recs, I figured that they'd be good to have for next year.
- I found out in the middle of Meet the Chapter round that my aunt on my dad's side is a Chi Omega alumnae (turns out my mom didn't know this when I had asked her if we had anyone in our family who was Greek). As such, next year I'll definitely be sure that Chi O knows this if I decide to go through rush again.
Any advice would be more than appreciated!