out of the 6 houses i would have only joined the 3 that i listed as my top choices. i feel like as a sophmore i have a better idea of which houses i really would have liked to be in and contribute to and i wouldnt have been excited to be in the other houses (again not that they arent great girls, but just not my girls) and thats just not fair to them or to me. another thing i didnt like about those houses was a mandatory 2 year live in period. if they were girls and houses i adored then that would have been ok, but if i was miserable i would have hated it and ended up depledging or deactivating.
as for cob, i dont think the houses i want usually have to cob, and i dont want to get my hopes up becuase most likely i wont be cob'ed, and then it would be painful all over again. Then again, you never know...