[valpogal99]

Like some of you, I joined during during a COB/Informal recruitment process. I transfered to the school so I didn't have to go through the whole formal rush event since we had a deferred rush period. It was also a time when the sororities were getting ready to meet with National organizations and make the transition from local to National GLOs so almost all of the groups were doing informal recruitment. I have to admit, there are a lot of advantages to COB. One of the disadvantages though is that you get your bids, your friend(s) get hers, and you can pick and choose. While my decision would have been the same regardless, the fact that my friends received bids to the same group made it that much easier. On of my good friends had been torn between ADPi and another group. She accepted ADPi because two of her friends (myself and another girl) had decided we were accepting our bids there. In the end, she was thankful she made the decision she made but I wonder how it would have turned out during Formal recruitment. Personally, I liked seeing what bids I received. Then again, I knew from the beginning which group I wanted. I understand there would be problems with passing out multiple bids during formal recruitment but I also think it would get more girls involved in the process. It would be possible to handle the situation in such a way that quota and total could still be established in sororities while allowing girls to receive multiple bids. However, it would be a lot of work and fairly lenthy to pass out the bids for those systems to still work properly.