Advice for second time through

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Originally Posted by wpiscared

I went through formal recruitment this past year and it didn't really work out in my favor. I thought I was a shoe in for XYZ, but I later found out that several girls had voted no for me based on rumors. I've worked my hardest over the past year to make my reputation pristine and better my chances of getting in this year.

Does anyone have any advice on how to have a successful second time around recruitment?

A senior on my track team told me her story about how freshman year she didn't get a bid anywhere, but as a sophomore joined a colonizing sorority. We're going to have a colonizing sorority here my junior year (which sorority is still TBD.) I'm scared that if I wait until junior year to try and be a colony member, I will get rejected from that too.

1. You have no way of knowing WHY you didn't receive a bid, no matter what anyone tells you. BTW, no one is EVER a shoe-in, anywhere.

2. If you have reputation issues, work on those. Keep your eye on your schoolwork.

3. Try to enhance whatever wasn't stellar during this past recruitment (grades, personality, conversation, energy, put-together appearance, lack of activities, making friends with people), and work on that.

Your chances of getting a bid next time around? NO ONE can tell you that. In most places, waiting until you are a junior on the slight chance that a colonizing chapter will take you is not the best idea. Just because they will probably need upperclassmen doesn't mean that they will take just anyone.

Do you care to share what happened during recruitment? How far did you get? Did you receive a bid?