Texas A&M Recruitment...as a junior?

[TXalum1]

Originally Posted by amperches

I have heard that juniors get "priority" over sophomores mainly because it is their last available year to rush, but I was unsure if this was true or not. I do want to rush again and hopefully this time get the sorority I want, but I don't want to make the mistake of going through again if there is no chance at all that I will get into a sorority as a junior.

Thanks and Gig Em!

Whoever told you juniors get priority in recruitment misled you. You had a bid in hand, which is difficult for a sophomore at A&M, and walked away because it wasn't what you wanted. That is your chance. It won't happen next year because until the sophomore quota was implemented this year, it seldom happened for sophomores. I know a number of young women in the Greek system there so this is not supposition on my part.

Many women think they must be an XYZ or nothing and learn later they were mistaken.

Maybe you can work something out with your GLO. If not, you will have to look at it as a valuable life lesson.

[33girl]

Is there an upperclassmen quota or what there? If there is, what classes constitute "upper"?

[TXalum1]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Is there an upperclassmen quota or what there? If there is, what classes constitute "upper"?

This was their first year to have an upperclassmen quota. I don't know what constitutes one, since my friend only said theirs was 7 or 8.

In past conversations, she mentioned this quota was a real possibility for TAMU because they were losing so many good sophomores in the recruitment process. I think sophomores prompted the change rather than juniors.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by TXalum1

Whoever told you juniors get priority in recruitment misled you. You had a bid in hand, which is difficult for a sophomore at A&M, and walked away because it wasn't what you wanted. That is your chance. It won't happen next year because until the sophomore quota was implemented this year, it seldom happened for sophomores. I know a number of young women in the Greek system there so this is not supposition on my part.

So if there was a sophomore quota or sophomores were included in an "upperclassman" quota, the OP can't claim she was cut for being a sophomore, because she was only competing against other sophomores/upperclassmen.

[TXalum1]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

So if there was a sophomore quota or sophomores were included in an "upperclassman" quota, the OP can't claim she was cut for being a sophomore, because she was only competing against other sophomores/upperclassmen.

That's the way I understood it. They wanted to give the sophomores, especially the transfers, more opportunities to join sororities. It was tough, tough for a sophomore to get a bid the last few years.

[amperches]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

So if there was a sophomore quota or sophomores were included in an "upperclassman" quota, the OP can't claim she was cut for being a sophomore, because she was only competing against other sophomores/upperclassmen.

I'm not claiming that the fact I'm a sophomore was the reason I was cut. I know that there were other factors that played into being cut from the sororities I liked. There is an upperclassman quota (it was put into effect this year), but I am not sure of the actual number of upperclassmen needed in order to fill that quota.