Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

[arrowlady]

Hopeful Mom, my heart breaks for your daughter. I hate that she maximized her options, was open minded and ends up with a text message and not bid.

I too am embarrassed to have my organization on this campus and not trying to change things..

Your daughter sounds like an outstanding young woman with a lot to offer. I hope she will find a group, club or perhaps colony with D Phi E that will appreciate her..

[TPAGirlie]

Hopeful mom I am so sorry. I was hoping she(whoever she is) would have gotten a Theta Phi Alpha bid. Has she considered Delta Phi Epsilon? They are colonizing this semester and being part of a group of founding sisters is an amazing opportunity.

[hopeful mom]

Originally Posted by TPAGirlie

Hopeful mom I am so sorry. I was hoping she(whoever she is) would have gotten a Theta Phi Alpha bid. Has she considered Delta Phi Epsilon? They are colonizing this semester and being part of a group of founding sisters is an amazing opportunity.

I am going to talk with her about that option, I think it would be amazing to be the start of a new sorority at IU, she could watch it grow throughout life and know she was part of the beginning.

I know there is a lot of talk that IU is doing nothing to avoid this, but they have added these new chapters and even though they don't have a house, I am sure that someday they will so in my opinion they are at least trying, I think it would be impossible to build several new houses from scratch but it is the beginning of something at least.

Thanks to all for your sweet words, it is hard but we all need to have our girls keep their heads up! maybe all the girls that didnt make the cut can come together in Delta Phi Epsilon!

[tinydancer]

I feel just terrible for the young ladies who maximized their options, played by the rules, and still did not receive a bid.
I thought rush at Texas was tough, and that was when covered wagons were still rolling west.

[stbemtpynest]

Aw hopeful mom, I'm so sorry to hear that!

Is it possible that each rho gamma handles things differently? My daughter's rho gamma said she would visit each girl privately in her room. A text message is so impersonal.

[IUHoosiergirl88]

Originally Posted by stbemtpynest

Aw hopeful mom, I'm so sorry to hear that!

Is it possible that each rho gamma handles things differently? My daughter's rho gamma said she would visit each girl privately in her room. A text message is so impersonal.

Each rho gamma definitely handles it differently--if the girls live off campus and she can't get to them, or she is stuck in class, etc. etc. texts may have to happen.

[hopeful mom]

Originally Posted by stbemtpynest

Aw hopeful mom, I'm so sorry to hear that!

Is it possible that each rho gamma handles things differently? My daughter's rho gamma said she would visit each girl privately in her room. A text message is so impersonal.

I thought so too, I asked my daughter and her Rho Gamma asked how they would want to know and my daughter requested the text. I guess she wanted to process alone.

[pinksequins]

Hopeful Mom, I so wished for a different outcome for your daughter. To go back 10,000 posts or so, IU recruitment is so screwed up that she should not take it personally. It's a Vegas crapshoot. It's easier for me to say than perhaps her to believe, but for IU it rings true.

If she is up for it, she may wish to look into the new DPhiE colony as an earlier poster suggested. Yes, colonies can be selective but rarely arbitrary, and alumnae from different schools and the HQ leadership are typically involved.

Kind wishes to you and your daughter.

[pinksequins]

All of our mails are crossing! Best wishes still stand! : )

[hopeful mom]

pinksequins:

thank you!

[clemsongirl]

I am anxiously awaiting updates from our other moms with daughters we have not yet heard from...wishing all the best.

[Mom64]

Daughter says it is "carnage" in her dorm. No rhyme or reason as to who got bids and who didn't. One of her friends is a beautiful, caring, smart (4.0), involved student and came out with nothing. She is just one of MANY.

My daughter is throwing around a number that approximately 300 PNMs who attended 3 party received no bids. She thinks they may have invited more PNMs to the final party because of combining the 14 and 8 parties. Anyone have confirmation??

[midwesterner1]

I do have a happy report -- my sophomore daughter got a bid. Very nice news since she did not get a bid her freshman year.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by midwesterner1

I do have a happy report -- my sophomore daughter got a bid. Very nice news since she did not get a bid her freshman year.

Congratulations!!

[pinkmama]

Originally Posted by midwesterner1

I do have a happy report -- my sophomore daughter got a bid. Very nice news since she did not get a bid her freshman year.

Congrats!!