Recruitment thread junkies...

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by tld221

ETA: ok went back - shes the chick who decided not to be active with her chapter. im still shaking my head on people who join their org and then decide not to be active later on (especially after you were JUST initiated)

I'm one of those. Towards the end of my new member period I started having some medical issues. I attempted to resolve them over the summer (pledged in the spring) but as fall rolled around I was still on crutches and pain meds. I tried really hard to be active in my chapter and make it to events but ultimately I had to drop and go inactive. I never did get to go active again because it took a year and a half before a doctor finally figured out what was wrong and did surgery to correct it.
Laura may have been like me-or maybe she's just one of those that you speak of. I didn't have a choice but others do. Just being on GC makes me really miss my sisters and my chapter and the experience I never got to have.

[susan314]

So...its the day after Bid Day. I go to classes and go about my normal routine for the day. (Don't give a whole lot of thought to the whole COB list thing - I don't exactly understand what it is or what it means.)

I have dinner in my dorm's cafeteria and then head back to my room. As I turn the corner, I see 3 people camped out near my door. I figure maybe they are some of my roommate's friends waiting for her.

As I get closer, I recognize my Rho Chi Jen and a girl I talked with during Phase A (the fellow redhead who witnessed my choking incident at Sideshow Bob)...they had one other girl with them who looked vaguely familiar, but I didn't specifically recognize her. My Rho Chi Jen tells me that she is a member of Sideshow Bob, and that they would like to extend me a bid to join their chapter. If I am interested or have any questions, I can call the house at the number inside the bid card. I'm a little shocked by the whole thing...even though she told me to "expect a bid," I didn't realize that she would actually be delivering one to me the next day. I tell them thank you, they leave, and I enter my room.

When I open the door, I see 4 more envelopes on the floor under my door with my name on them. I'm extremely surprised and confused at this point...as I open the 4 envelopes, I realize that each of them contains a bid card to a sorority.

I'm totally shocked. I went from thinking that I might not join a sorority at all (or at least have to wait until next Fall's rush), to having 5 bid cards in hand. Ironically, if I had stayed in rush, I would have ultimately ended up with only 1 bid...now I have 5 to pick and choose from. The 5 bids are from the following chapters:

Sideshow Bob
Ned Flanders
Moe Szyslak
Disco Stu
Milhouse VanHouten

5 of the 6 chapters I would have attended for Phase C, if I would have stuck with it. If I accept a bid, it could very well be the group I would have ended up in anyhow. It occurs to me that it might have been easier to end up with just one bid after going through Preference - at least they would have been narrowed down gradually, instead of having the pressure of picking one myself. Not to mention that I would have had more opportunity to get to know the sororities better...give me a little more to go on when making my decision!

I'm not sure what to do...which one do I choose? Or do I not choose one at all?

[efcheerBB]

Wow, now that I have sent my email about my guesses, I see that my very last comment was way off seeing as you didn't get a bid to that house... lol

Either way, I will find out how off I was on my guesses when you post the list This is fun and brain-racking (sp?)

[tld221]

umm WTH? how can you get a bid if you dropped out of rush? you didnt go through Phase C either...

that was kinda creppy how yor Rho Chi waited for you by your door to give you a bid - very stalker-like. complete with the "call us if you have questions" deal.

help me make sense of this.

[susan314]

Originally Posted by tld221

umm WTH? how can you get a bid if you dropped out of rush? you didnt go through Phase C either...

that was kinda creppy how yor Rho Chi waited for you by your door to give you a bid - very stalker-like. complete with the "call us if you have questions" deal.

help me make sense of this.

My name was on the COB list, so that was supposed to indicate to the chapters that I'd still be interested in joining a sorority. I guess the groups I received bids from felt that they had learned enough about me during rush to indicate that I was a good candidate to receive a bid.

I think with my Rho Chi, the situation was this - chapters couldn't start COBing until 6 pm that day. So, any chapter that decided to COB hurried up to get bids out there to anyone they were really interested in. She would likely have witnessed the other groups dropping off bids (I came back to my room not too long after 6 pm, which was the earliest they would have been allowed to contact me). Given that I still didn't know at that point what houses my Rho Chis were in, she probably wanted me to be aware that one of the groups I was getting a bid from was hers.

(My other Rho Chi, I learned much later, was a member of Nelson Muntz.)

[mystikchick]

omg this thread just got REALLY fascinating! this totally tops ANY rush thread i've ever read here because of the plot twists. you are obviously an extremely special and in demand person! 5/6, i mean wow!

could someone tell me how likely something like this would be today (like getting that many bids for COB just after recruitment ends?)

[BetteDavisEyes]

This is definitely one of the strangest rush threads I've ever read but also somewhat fascinating at how it all happened for you.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by BetteDavisEyes

This is definitely one of the strangest rush threads I've ever read but also somewhat fascinating at how it all happened for you.

I agree. It would have been really different reading it as it happened too!

[susan314]

Originally Posted by mystikchick

could someone tell me how likely something like this would be today (like getting that many bids for COB just after recruitment ends?)

I think it would be unusual now, even at a very laid back campus.

At the time, I think COBing was a little new to all the chapters. They took a look at the names on the COB list, if they saw the name of someone who they liked during rush and felt that they had enough info on that person to comply with their Membership Selection requirements...they gave them a bid.

COBing has been refined a lot since 1992! I suspect that if someone were in my situation today, they'd find themselves getting a lot of invitations to COB events vs. getting actual bids. Bids might be issued down the road, after a few informal COB events. But it might not be as likely that they'd get bids immediately after formal recruitment ended. (Unless they already had friends in the chapter prior to recruitment, of course. That wasn't the case with me though.)

[TSteven]

In an homage to 'The Simspons', please allow me to paraphrase Comic Book Guy and simply say: "Best Rush Thread Ever!"