Is there even a chance?

I’m so sorry! I would strongly suggest staying off this site because it’s so toxic with many 1/2 truths but I know it’s easier said than done. You will not be dropped from recruitment!! I promise you will find your sisters! Just go in being your true authentic self.

You will find a home, but just know it will likely not be one of the “top”. It is unlikely that you will be completely dropped from recruitment. I honestly wish I knew more coming in as an oos girl with no connections. I had recs, strong resume, and great grades. My recruitment started off great getting back my top 8 houses, including all of the “top” houses. I ranked 3 lower to mid houses at the bottom of my list. If I knew then what I know now, I would have ranked the lower to mid houses higher. Those are the houses that I had the best shot as as an oos with no connections.

If you would just substitute "top" chapters for "local to arkansas" chapters you would have the proper perspective on the chapters here. If you are not a local girl then a local chapter is not for you because that's what they want. That leaves all the others wide open for you to find your home. These chapters have beautiful mansions full of attractive, stylish, smart, fun, accomplished members. You will have the same great sorority experience, and find your best friend group and strong sisterhood in any of them except for not coming in already knowing a bunch of girls from high school/home town. Does that sound so bad?

I honestly don’t need the top rank - just a great group of girls that I can form friendships and have a “place”
With literally thousands of pnm how can every girl find a place?

i rushed as an OOS girl last year. i had recs, strong resume and over a 4.0 GPA. after first round cuts i was left with 5 houses, all of which are considered “mid” to “bottom” houses. this will happen to pretty much 90% of oos girls (a lot of my friends are OOS and we all had very similar experiences). just go into each round with an open mind. you will find your place! i ended up rushing a “mid” sorority and found my best friends. after those first round cuts, i was devastated and i remember my gamma chi telling me to “trust the process”. at the time i thought that was bs but it’s true. i ended up in a sisterhood i love, not because it’s “top-house” but because of how genuine and caring everyone i met in my sorority has been.

I was the same way when I went through. I had the maximum number of houses left each round. I got a bid from one of the upper, mid houses. It was the one I wanted all summer long, so I was excited!
Good luck!

You will be fine!! For real all houses are good at uark! Be open and you will have a great experience

very rare for pnms to cut from all houses. I have not met anyone in that situation. The girls I know who did not receive bids were ones who dropped from recruitment after they were cut from the houses they wanted.

i don't know any girls who got dropped from every single house. uark has a 95% bid rate, so you're going to end up somewhere. i'm also out of state and i felt the same way you did. i got cut from 6 houses before philanthropy and i only had one house left on pref. i didn't get into a "top tier" sorority, but i've loved every minute of my sorority.

don't count yourself out before it even starts. you'll end up where you belong, even if it doesn't seem that way at first.

Every girl can find a place, even if thousands register. They reverse engineer the numbers with a computer algorithm. In a VERY basic sense, say 2300 register and around 100 drop or leave the process, that leaves 2200 to give bids to, divide by 11 and that’s a quota of 200 per house.

All of the chapters will have around the same number of bids given out.