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Guys, I rushed this weekend and tomorrow morning is preference day and then tomorrow afternoon is bid day and I am soooooo nervous. I really want to be in Alpha Gamma Delta, but I like ZTA a lot too. I'm just really worried I won't get either of my two choices. Like if I walk into preference day and find out I've got one I want and one I didn't and there's a 50/50 chance I'll get a bid in the end from the one I didn't, I don't know what I would do. I don't want to put all the time and money into something I don't feel like I fit with, but dropping, especially once you actually receive your bid is so frowned upon.
 
Guys, I rushed this weekend and tomorrow morning is preference day and then tomorrow afternoon is bid day and I am soooooo nervous. I really want to be in Alpha Gamma Delta, but I like ZTA a lot too. I'm just really worried I won't get either of my two choices. Like if I walk into preference day and find out I've got one I want and one I didn't and there's a 50/50 chance I'll get a bid in the end from the one I didn't, I don't know what I would do. I don't want to put all the time and money into something I don't feel like I fit with, but dropping, especially once you actually receive your bid is so frowned upon.
I was in the exact same spot. Seriously all I can tell you is not to stress about it. Honestly, when I was posting about my rush experience and the house I wanted, it's not the one that I'm in. Everything works out perfectly and I love my new family. Everything will fall into place.
 
AHHH!!! I'm a Delta Zeta too!!! Rowan University, Xi Kappa. The Chapter no longer exists though :(

Pledging was the best decision I made. At my school, you were allowed to rush first semester freshman year, but weren't allowed to pledge. I rushed both semesters first year, but pledged second semester. So many fun memories! Definitely go through the process and keep an open mind about all the organizations. You'll find a good fit. It is expensive, however I found it to be worth it. Good Luck!!

I'm a DZ! Samford University, alpha Pi. Our chapter is gone too :(


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Guys, I rushed this weekend and tomorrow morning is preference day and then tomorrow afternoon is bid day and I am soooooo nervous. I really want to be in Alpha Gamma Delta, but I like ZTA a lot too. I'm just really worried I won't get either of my two choices. Like if I walk into preference day and find out I've got one I want and one I didn't and there's a 50/50 chance I'll get a bid in the end from the one I didn't, I don't know what I would do. I don't want to put all the time and money into something I don't feel like I fit with, but dropping, especially once you actually receive your bid is so frowned upon.
Don't worry about it too much. my sister had two she really liked and then the rest she was kinda like "eh I don't love them but they're okay" and neither of her top ones asked her back on preference day. Two of her "okay" ones did. She was really upset but it all worked out! She had no interest in one of them and then the other she had originally felt bad putting lower on her list... So she went to the one she liked more on preference day and ended up really liking it.... They sang "for good" and she cried lol. And that's where she ended up, and looking at her original "top two" she would've hated to actually end up there with the girls in their pledge class... one had 7 girls from her high school :help:
If there's one you like and one you don't want to be in after preference day, just only put one down. Leave the other off your list that you make after preference day, then they can't give you a bid. So like my sister's "preferencing" (after preference day I'm not sure if it's still called that but whatever her list is) was just 1. Sigma Kappa. And nothing else because she knew she wouldn't be happy in the other option!
 
Guys, I rushed this weekend and tomorrow morning is preference day and then tomorrow afternoon is bid day and I am soooooo nervous. I really want to be in Alpha Gamma Delta, but I like ZTA a lot too. I'm just really worried I won't get either of my two choices. Like if I walk into preference day and find out I've got one I want and one I didn't and there's a 50/50 chance I'll get a bid in the end from the one I didn't, I don't know what I would do. I don't want to put all the time and money into something I don't feel like I fit with, but dropping, especially once you actually receive your bid is so frowned upon.
You will end up where you're supposed to be, I promise! You just have to find your niche in the chapter and your close group of friends. There are amazing girls in every single house so don't stress about it! If you end up getting a bid from a house you didn't want, give it time. I liked my sorority but I can honestly say I didn't fall in love with it until around the middle of my sophomore year.
 
I feel like a majority of peoples rush's are done and over in one weekend. The first "unofficial" get to know the sororities meet and greet thing is tomorrow. But then the first official day isnt until the 13th and then its over the 19th.
Holy crap, I'm so jealous. It's close to 3 weeks here from orientation to Bid Day. Plus the chapters are already practicing about a week before that.
 
Were also a small school with about 3500 students total. I believe theres only like 3 sororities as well and we can't have houses due to some state or county law about a brothel?
We're the same. Only we're a large city campus and there isn't any place to put houses. Plus the whole brothel thing... Which actually kind of pisses me off. Like what is this 1918?!?


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Well this morning I found out that the group I really wanted dropped me :( I'm visiting two today ZTA and AlphaXi. I know we're supposed to maximize our options and all, but I don't think I'm going to write down AlphaXi on my MRABA.. So hopefully if things work out, at 5 I'll be a Zeta!


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I feel like a majority of peoples rush's are done and over in one weekend. The first "unofficial" get to know the sororities meet and greet thing is tomorrow. But then the first official day isnt until the 13th and then its over the 19th.
My school's rush isn't until the 20th. We have almost a month from movein/start of school to recruitment. My chapter's rho psi's (or pi chi/gamma chi/whatever it may be for you all) just officially disaffiliated yesterday and it's already awful walking around campus not really being able to interact with them.
 
If there's one you like and one you don't want to be in after preference day, just only put one down. Leave the other off your list that you make after preference day, then they can't give you a bid. So like my sister's "preferencing" (after preference day I'm not sure if it's still called that but whatever her list is) was just 1. Sigma Kappa. And nothing else because she knew she wouldn't be happy in the other option!
I tried doing this and was then highly discouraged from it. Apparently with the way the computer works somehow, putting the second choice increases your chances of getting the first...? I don't know my counselor explained it to me, but I put the second one down even though I really don't want them


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I tried doing this and was then highly discouraged from it. Apparently with the way the computer works somehow, putting the second choice increases your chances of getting the first...? I don't know my counselor explained it to me, but I put the second one down even though I really don't want them


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PLEASEEE don't suicide! (That's what we call only putting down 1 chapter after pref) I've seen so many girls get their hearts broken doing that. At USC you're guaranteed a bid from one of the chapters you attended on pref unless you suicide. If you suicude and that chapter didn't have you on their A list, you end up with no bid at all. Then you can't rush again for a full year. It also is frowned upon so suicide here, so you run the risk of Greek Life seeing your suicide vote and dropping you from the system. You're also automatically dropped from the system here if you skip a party you're invited to without a valid excuse.

It's highly discouraged here too. Of course, it's worked out for some people but to me it's not worth the risk!
 
PLEASEEE don't suicide! (That's what we call only putting down 1 chapter after pref) I've seen so many girls get their hearts broken doing that. At USC you're guaranteed a bid from one of the chapters you attended on pref unless you suicide. If you suicude and that chapter didn't have you on their A list, you end up with no bid at all. Then you can't rush again for a full year. It also is frowned upon so suicide here, so you run the risk of Greek Life seeing your suicide vote and dropping you from the system. You're also automatically dropped from the system here if you skip a party you're invited to without a valid excuse.

It's highly discouraged here too. Of course, it's worked out for some people but to me it's not worth the risk!
After some help from my Gamma Chi, I did not suicide. My issue was I didn't want a bid from my second choice (overall fourth choice) and would have dropped from them anyways. At VCU there is no COB or spring rush, so having to wait isn't a penalty. But because our Greek life is so small word does get around and it's frowned upon. But I did put the second choice down to increase my chances of getting my first choice.

To anyone faced with this choice: put both!!! If you get a bid from the second you can always drop, but chances are good you'll get a bid from the first


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PLEASEEE don't suicide! (That's what we call only putting down 1 chapter after pref) I've seen so many girls get their hearts broken doing that. At USC you're guaranteed a bid from one of the chapters you attended on pref unless you suicide. If you suicude and that chapter didn't have you on their A list, you end up with no bid at all. Then you can't rush again for a full year. It also is frowned upon so suicide here, so you run the risk of Greek Life seeing your suicide vote and dropping you from the system. You're also automatically dropped from the system here if you skip a party you're invited to without a valid excuse.

It's highly discouraged here too. Of course, it's worked out for some people but to me it's not worth the risk!
It was discouraged at my school too. I suicided DZ cause I knew that I was going to pledge them or nothing at all. Worked out to my benefit. One of my pledge sisters suicided a different sorority. She wasn't extended a bid and we wound up getting her through COB.


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