quick question

XxGiNgErBrEaDxX · #1 04-18-2007, 01:45 AM

Hi,
I received two bids -I liked both sororities- but chose the other at the last minute. I soon found out it was not what the girls played it up to be during recruitment and it wasn't what I expected in the sorority

. I left within a matter of a week or two (way before bigs were assigned or pledge pins handed out).
I would like to know if I could go through recruitment again with the other sorority, eventhough I didn't sign their bid. Can this be done? I have to wait a year anyways to re-rush right?

KSUViolet06 · #2 04-18-2007, 02:06 AM

It is a National Panhellenic Conference rule that you have to wait a year before going through rush again. However, no one can guarantee you that the other sorority will offer you a bid again next year, since you already declined once.

XxGiNgErBrEaDxX · #3 04-18-2007, 02:16 AM

I'm aware of the wait a year thing, but, it is possible then...

XxGiNgErBrEaDxX · #4 04-18-2007, 02:19 AM

btw thanks for replying to my post

KSUViolet06 · #5 04-18-2007, 02:22 AM

Being able to rush and actually getting a bid to a sorority are 2 different things.

If you wait a year, YES you can rush again. In order for you to be able to JOIN the other sorority, they would have to give you a bid again. I do not know if the sorority will give you a bid AGAIN because you picked another sorority over them LAST year. I've NEVER heard of a sorority offering a girl a bid after she turned them down before.

AlethiaSi · #6 04-18-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Being able to rush and actually getting a bid to a sorority are 2 different things.

If you wait a year, YES you can rush again. In order for you to be able to JOIN the other sorority, they would have to give you a bid again. I do not know if the sorority will give you a bid AGAIN because you picked another sorority over them LAST year. I've NEVER heard of a sorority offering a girl a bid after she turned them down before.

I've seen it happen on my campus, after they rush, they usually explain what happened (or we ask) and why they left the other group. During the bid process, we consider her previous experience and how committed she appears. Usually she would come to the house knowing one of our girls, so we take that into account... I mean... its not a common practice to give these kinds of bids out... but i've seen it happen (we're also a smaller campus so we don't have the same kind of numbers that a larger campus would)

So, i think your chances might depend on your situation... you can PM me if ya want

XxGiNgErBrEaDxX · #7 04-25-2007, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AlethiaSi

I've seen it happen on my campus, after they rush, they usually explain what happened (or we ask) and why they left the other group. During the bid process, we consider her previous experience and how committed she appears. Usually she would come to the house knowing one of our girls, so we take that into account... I mean... its not a common practice to give these kinds of bids out... but i've seen it happen (we're also a smaller campus so we don't have the same kind of numbers that a larger campus would)

So, i think your chances might depend on your situation... you can PM me if ya want

We're one of the "top ten party school" campuses, so yeah, we're not small. Now I have several friends in that sorority and they said that I should rush again next year. Ofcourse that doesn't mean I'll automatically get in or anything, but it doesn't hurt in trying right? And if they ask me why I left the other group, well I'll just tell them exactly how it went down. Think positive I say.

AOE2AlphaPhi · #8 04-19-2007, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Being able to rush and actually getting a bid to a sorority are 2 different things.

If you wait a year, YES you can rush again. In order for you to be able to JOIN the other sorority, they would have to give you a bid again. I do not know if the sorority will give you a bid AGAIN because you picked another sorority over them LAST year. I've NEVER heard of a sorority offering a girl a bid after she turned them down before.

I've seen it happen on my campus too. The girl had almost all of her friends in the sorority she had turned down and spent the year clearly wishing she were in that one, so they accepted her the second time around. Of course, I do go to a TINY school, where greeks and nongreeks coexist a lot...