Still trying to find my home!

[Tinybunny]

Hi everyone! I'm a third year I've been trying to go Greek for a while but no success. I didn't know that formal recruitment was a thing my freshman year so I didn't go through that

I signed up for formal the next year and got cut on the night before pref night so I was one day away from bid day. I was upset for a while but I don't want that to deter me. I just don't think I was ready my freshman year.

I didn't sign up for formal again because I didn't know where my fall internship would be. That opens up the road for informal again.

I'm technically a junior but I'm in a five year program so I would be able to serve for three years.

So here are my questions:

1) How do I address me being an upperclassman that got cut from all houses?
2) Will the houses remember me/have a record that I was cut?
3) I want to do mock interviews as practice, but will that make me sound like a robot? How useful is practicing?

I honestly don't think that my social skills are awful but they could be better?

This year will be my last try to go Greek so I would like to be prepared for the upcoming journey!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Tinybunny

Hi everyone! I'm Amy and a third year I've been trying to go Greek for a while but no success. I didn't know that formal recruitment was a thing my freshman year so I didn't go through that

I signed up for formal the next year and got cut on the night before pref night so I was one day away from bid day. I was upset for a while but I don't want that to deter me. I just don't think I was ready my freshman year.

I didn't sign up for formal again because I didn't know where my fall internship would be. That opens up the road for informal again.

I'm technically a junior but I'm in a five year program so I would be able to serve for three years.

So here are my questions:

1) How do I address me being an upperclassman that got cut from all houses?
2) Will the houses remember me/have a record that I was cut?
3) I want to do mock interviews as practice, but will that make me sound like a robot? How useful is practicing?

I honestly don't think that my social skills are awful but they could be better?

This year will be my last try to go Greek so I would like to be prepared for the upcoming journey!

Depending on the size of your Greek system and number of chapters, they may remember that they cut you. I can tell you that my school's recruitment was once 150 PNMs and 6 chapters and we remembered girls we released. If there are 1,000 PNMs, maybe not so much.

Conversation practice is fine, but I think what people overlook the most is the connection factor. Ask yourself:

Do you know women in sororities who like you and would want to see you as their sister?

Another good question to ask yourself: What is going to be different about me or my situation this time to merit a different outcome?

[Tinybunny]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Depending on the size of your Greek system and number of chapters, they may remember that they cut you. I can tell you that my school's recruitment was once 150 PNMs and 6 chapters and we remembered girls we released. If there are 1,000 PNMs, maybe not so much.

Conversation practice is fine, but I think what people overlook the most is the connection factor. Ask yourself:

Do you know women in sororities who like you and would want to see you as their sister?

Another good question to ask yourself: What is going to be different about me or my situation this time to merit a different outcome?

That's a good point!