Really confused about bids/rush!

[AlphaFrog]

If you didn't sign your bid (which, judging from your post, you didn't) with the student life/greek life office, then you are still eligible to rush. The only way you are bound to a group (which is generally for 1 Calandar year) is either if you complete the entire Formal Rush process and recieve a bid to a group that you put on your pref card (you'll understand what that means when you go through Rush) OR if you are offered an "informal bid" as you put it, and you actually go and say yes and sign that bid.

Also, according to *SOME* PHC rules, the bid that they gave you is good for 1 year. You could go through rush, and decide that you really did want the group that has already given you a bid, and go back and sign the previous bid they gave you. (I don't think I explained that very well...maybe someone else could explain it better).

[33girl]

Did you sign anything or take the bid with you? If not, you're OK to rush again.

I'm guessing you're OK, because if you had signed the bid, they would have had you begin pledging last semester...

And I think you're right to be wary of this sorority. Informal rush and open bids are supposed to be low key, but not low key to the point of the girl involved not understanding what's going on!

[mbouncy]

I took the bid with me, but I definitely did not sign anything. They never really said or explained anything! I know somebody else who got an informal bid through the same sorority, and they were told that they could just go to the house on bid night if they wanted to join. I was never told any of that, though, so... I guess I'll be rushing!