Did you get your first choice? If not, are you happy now?

Wine&SilverBlue · #1 07-25-2004, 10:06 PM

I hear stories about hundreds of people not getting bids at some of the big southern schools so i imagine that there are also a lot of people who don't end up with their first choice.

1. did you get your first choice?

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?

3. are you happy now?

4. do you have any regrets?

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?

just curious about everyones experiences... forgive me if these questions are too personal

Shima-Mizu · #2 07-25-2004, 10:15 PM

1. did you get your first choice?
I suicided, so yes.

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
n/a

3. are you happy now?
I love where I ended up. It hadn't been a sorority I was originally looking into at the beginning of formal recruitment, but that's the beauty of formal recruitment, isn't it?

4. do you have any regrets?
Nope.

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
n/a

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?
n/a

KSUViolet06 · #3 07-25-2004, 10:41 PM

1. I COB'd so, yeah.
2.N/A
3. Yep
4.Nope
5. and 6. N/A

MSKKG · #4 07-25-2004, 11:42 PM

1. Yes.
2. N/A
3. Absolutely!
4. No.
5. N/A
6. N/A

astroAPhi · #5 07-26-2004, 11:51 AM

1. did you get your first choice?
Yes.

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
n/a

3. are you happy now?
Yes. I definitely know now that Alpha Phi is where I was meant to be, and where I would be happiest.

4. do you have any regrets?
No.

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
If I hadn't gotten a bid from Alpha Phi, I would have declined my bid and gone through Recruitment the next year.

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?
n/a

dvs-dz · #6 07-26-2004, 12:16 PM

1. did you get your first choice?

Nope

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?

Yes, I accepted a bid from my second choice. While I was very disappointed not to receive a bid from my first choice, I liked the girls in Delta Zeta better. I was especially happy when I found out who was in my pledge class vs. the other sorority's pledge class.

3. are you happy now?

Yes! It's been a long, long time since I pledged, and my pledge sisters and I still have annual reunions (coming on our 23rd annual reunion!). We figure we'll probably be in assisted living together and cause a variety of mayhem.

4. do you have any regrets?

Nope

KappaSigKGB · #7 07-26-2004, 12:21 PM

Rushed, Recieved Bid, Pledged, and Initiated ONLY into Kappa Sigma. Extremely satisfied.

#8 07-26-2004, 12:36 PM

1. did you get your first choice?
No.

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
Yes because I really liked the girls.

3. are you happy now?
I'm not happy that the chapter closed or how it did, but I am happy overall with my experience.

4. do you have any regrets?
Yes, but I can't dwell on them.

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
N/A

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?
I won't be going through a second time. I recently realized that once you join a GLO, no matter if it's local or national, you're a member for life.

ZTAngel · #9 07-26-2004, 12:41 PM

1. did you get your first choice?
Yup!

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
N/A

3. are you happy now?
Yup!

4. do you have any regrets?
I do regret that a lot of my decision to cut or keep certain groups was based on popularity. I wish that I given some sororities that were a great group of girls but maybe not considered a "popular sorority" more of a chance

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
N/A

[b]6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?[b/]
N/A

I'm at a Southern school although rush isn't as cutthroat as Ole Miss, Auburn, UF, UGA, Bama, Texas, LSU, South Carolina, etc. by any means. But, recruitment is still a very big thing at my school and there are a lot of big cuts early on. I do think my school does a great job at placing most of the PNMs into sorority although it's not always the PNM's top choice sorority.

KSigkid · #10 07-26-2004, 12:45 PM

I got my first choice...I'm happy I made the choice I did, I couldn't see myself going with any other org (although I did look at a couple of others).

seraphimsprite · #11 07-26-2004, 02:13 PM

1. did you get your first choice?
Well sort of. I did spring informal, where you go to all the houses, but you don't every actually rank them. (At the end of the week you pick up the bid cards for every sorority that extended you a bid - which is cool.) Anyway, going to pick up my bid cards, I had two first choices. One sorority, I really wanted to be one of "those girls" (hey, I was a superficial freshman) but I knew deep down that Sigma Kappa was where I would be happy.

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
N/A

3. are you happy now?
Absolutely.

4. do you have any regrets?
Even though it was informal, we still had rounds. I wish I'd gone to different chapters for the second round - I had an AWFUL time at one of the houses I went to and I only went back because one of my friends was a member.

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
N/A

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?
N/A

I would just like to add that from the chapter side, we gave bids to several girls during COB that we had cut during formal recruitment. I also remember one girl who went through rush three times (two formal, one informal) before finding her home.

shadokat · #12 07-26-2004, 02:20 PM

1. did you get your first choice? Yes

2. if not, did you still accept your bid? why/why not?
n/a

3. are you happy now?
I love being a D Phi E and all it stands for. Coming up on my 11th year as a member, there are still new things to learn and more folks to meet every day!

4. do you have any regrets?
No

5. if you didnt accept your bid, did you go through recruitment again?
n/a

6. if so, did you end up in that group after the 2nd go round?
n/a

Just to add, I think I would've been happy with any of my three choices. Keeping an open mind is the key to finding happiness

UTSigKap · #13 07-26-2004, 02:29 PM

Yes I got my first choice. Sigma Kappa was really the only one I wanted. I am absolutly thrilled with my choice and if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change a thing. I found some of the best friends, and goofiest people, in my chapter and I don't regret any of it!
But as for your other questions my best friend did not get her first choice, but she stuck with it and loved it. I think you just wind up in a place that's best for you, even though going through recuritment you may not think that at the time. UT's HUGE (we have 14 active sororities and aveage 1,000+ girls a year going through recruitment) so there really is a place for everyone.

AOIIalum · #14 07-26-2004, 03:01 PM

Rushed, Recieved Bid, Pledged, and Initiated ONLY into Alpha Omicron Pi. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

MissEm · #15 07-26-2004, 03:01 PM

Before recruitment started I wasn't really all that interested in the GLO that I joined however, throughout the process it became my top pick. I couldn't be happier anywhere else and I'm so glad that I didn't let myself be swayed by what I had thought before recruitment. I do know some people who didn't get their first choice and while it bothered them at first they soon realized that they really belonged to the houses they received bids from. i thinl in the end everyone really winds up where they should be.