Scared about rushing as a sophomore for competitive recruitment HELP!

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Originally Posted by ExcitedPNM

Hey everyone, first off I absolutely love love love GC!

Anyways, I am going to be rushing this fall at a competitive SEC school and I am super nervous, almost scared! I have been pouring over GC for months now and preparing almost obsessively for rush but I'm still worried about my chances. I am a sophomore transferring in and after reading GC, I'm worried I will get cut almost immediately

Now before you ask: I have gotten recs for all but 4 of the sororities (2 are pending), and some I even have 2 going in, my GPA is barely under a 3.0 but I've been very involved in high school and college, I've been shopping and working out like crazy to look the part, and practicing my conversation skills until I'm blue in the face. I rushed at my last school and wish I had known about GC, I COMPLETELY did everything one shouldn't do and ended up dropping out from not getting invites to the ones I wanted. Now I honestly will be happy in any and all the sororities at my new school.

Any other advice you can give me, or thoughts? Also, rush is coming up soon and I promise to post my story live for all you happy GC'ers (I know how much I love them!). Thanks

We don't know for sure whether you'll get a bid or not. I'll tell you that the first thing I noticed in your post was your GPA. If you're at a competitive school, that 2.9 or whatever is not going to look super impressive next to freshmen with grades that are much higher. Not much you can do about it now though.

My best advice would be to relax. Your nervousness will affect your confidence and it will show in your conversation/body language/etc.

You only have so much time to make an impression, you don't want that first impression to be "she was so super nervous that I didn't get to know much about her." When you're dealing with the high numbers of PNMs that they get at SEC schools, many times, you don't get another round if you are too nervous to really say much during the first.