Should I rush again next semester?

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by bummedout93

So I'm a transfer student and wanted to rush this semester. My school is smaller and we only have 4 sororities and well the second day I only got invited back one of them...and then the next day nobody invited me back My gpa is a 2.5 so I knew there was a big risk but it thought it seemed like it went really well with all the girls that I talked to. My mom, aunts, grandmother and a lot of my cousins are all greek so this really means a lot to me. I'm like 99% positive that my gpa for this semester will be a 3.6 or higher....should I try to rush next semester or would that be lame and desperate? I also just turned 21 and I wasn't sure if that was a huge issue....Greek life isn't like a huge thing here, less than 5% of the students are greek and we don't even have houses. Any helpful info would be greatly appreciated

QFP

Originally Posted by bummedout93

Thanks for the advice guys! It's just a really shitty situation bc my gpa is so low, bc 2 months into my freshmen year my little sister who I was really close to passed away from leukemia. I had an extremely hard time coping, couldn't make it throughout a class without having to leave bc I would start bawling. Ended up failed every class and then got D's and C's the next semester....but the last 2 semesters and over the summer I've had B's and A's. I didn't want to bring any of that up bc I didn't want the girls to think that I was trying to make them feel sorry for me to get a bid.....it just sucks because I feel like that period in my life keeps coming back to get me even when I've made so much progress. A 2.5 def doesn't reflect me...I was an A/B student in highschool but since I was transfer they only looked at my transcript from my previous college

This is why you get recs. Alumnae can explain the situation.

Originally Posted by bummedout93

I really appreciate the information! I'm really confident that i will have high grades this semester. I also made friends with girls who now are in the sorority that was my top pick. Oddly, like 75% of the girls that I talked to during recruitment live in the same apartment complex as me, so hopefully I get to know them better! The weirdest thing about recruitment is the sorority that did ask me back is the one that has the highest gpa on campus 0_0

Sounds like they may have considered the risk since their GPA could absorb yours without dropping too much, but in the end it was too big of a risk.