delta omega kappa

The don't even go here lol

Some of the DOK girls are in PHA sororities too since you can be in both professional and panhellenic greek letter organizations. I can't imagine how busy they must be, but they're pretty awesome.

I’ll keep it real. I’ve rushed a couple of times and here’s what I have to say. The rushing process itself is okay. It’s a lot of forced conversation and to be quite fair, these forced conversations won’t do you any good unless you have the perfect 4.0 GPA, networking connections, and you know girls in the sorority and even then it’s iffy. They maybe take on 1-2 “charity” cases a year so that they can have girls that say “oh I did nothing before DOK and it's changed my life.” But even so, it’s all about what you can bring to the table and what others can extort out of you opportunity wise. The average GPA is a 3.7, so if you’ve had life circumstances that have kept you down or just don’t have that as high GPA, prepare to not fit in. At the end of the day, it’s an academic sorority, not PHA. They aren’t as expensive and theoretically more “laid back” (but I’ve heard it’s a lot of work once you get in and if you don’t have the time you’re better off not doing it, which is why they got a newish rule of not being allowed to be in social sororities if you are in DOK). They conduct themselves like an exclusive club more than anything else, taking in only approx. 20 girls semester when 100+ rush. But if you can get in, more power to you. I found my “sorority family” somewhere else that’s so much more of a better fit for me. So don’t get discouraged if you don’t get in. The lesson for me was trying to fit in with a group of girls I just didn’t fit in with, and while it hurt each time I didn’t get that golden ticket bid into something I thought would change my life for the better, looking back I’m a not happier for it. Overall rating: 4.5/10, simply because of the exclusiveness of it, the hard work for no payoff trying to get in, and for the unwritten requirements you have to have simply to look good to them.

Honestly, I have negatice opinions on DOK & they’re not even something I looked at doing. I just don’t have respect for them like I do actually sororities.

At least Phi Sigma Rho & Alpha Sigma Upsilon are partially PHA chapters even though they’re major-based. They actually have to follow the standards to be called a sorority & their members are not allowed to be in multiple chapters. I know the engineering one is a National Sorority but i think both are. DOK is basically a group of girls that want to say they’re in a sorority without actually having to follow any of the same rules or have nationals over their head. They have girls drop a decent amount because they put on the front of being a sorority but honestly are just a clique. I feel like if you’re going to be a “sorority” you should at least be sufficient to stand on your own and not have girls who have to be in other sororities too.

These girls are super stuck up which is surprising given that their “sorority” is actually just a club. Kind of nobodies tbh

I rushed DOK Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, so both of my rush experiences were online over zoom, and I’ve never rushed in person. Obviously, I didn’t receive a bid either time. Overall, I have a pretty negative image of DOK. Despite putting on an image of being diverse and accepting, they’re really just a clique of girls that want to call themselves a sorority. If you won’t make them look good, they won’t want you. I’m sure it’s wonderful for the girls that get in, but they’re WAY too exclusive for a “sorority” that’s just a club. The rush process was pretty standard, we were put into break out groups and rotated through active members and had conversations based on prompts given to us. Then i was interviewed by two actives in an individual facetime call “to get to know me more personally”. Bid day was an awful experience because I opened up Instagram to find that everyone in my break out group had received a bid except for me. Everyone that i know in DOK that I’m friends with now all have confessed to me already knowing a couple of girls in DOK/having friends in DOK already that basically helped them get a bid. It’s hard for me to see DOK as anything more than a clique of girls that only include their friends/people that look good to them. I know way too many girls that have rushed DOK at least once and have not received a bid. If I were to try to improve DOK at all, I’d have them increase their pledge classes, there are so many girls that could add so much to DOK that dont get in because they keep their pledge classes so exclusive and small.

As an active member of DOK, I wanted to address some of the rumors being discussed on this discussion board.

Firstly, once it is determined that you reach the GPA minimum (which numerous academic organizations require), one's GPA is no longer factored in to one's acceptance into DOK. Therefore, a 4.0 GPA is in no way required or gives one a advantage over someone else.

Secondly, I personally joined DOK without knowing a single person in the sorority, and I know countless others who were in that same situation. In fact, I'd say that the majority of those currently in DOK did not have any close friends in DOK when they rushed.

Additionally, while it may be discouraging that each pledge class consists of only about 20 individuals per semester, DOK has consciously chosen to maintain a smaller group size in order to facilitate the feeling of a tight-knit community in which everyone knows each member on a personal level.

Many individuals who do not receive a bid during their first rush choose to rerush the next semester (we hold a formal rush every semester rather than only in the spring like PHA). Many of these members are fondly remembered and frequently are accepted during a second rush.

To this day, I only know of one individual who has completely dropped the sorority, and it was due to the fact that she changed major and career path to outside of healthcare (although those who change majors are not required to drop).

Finally, although DOK is not PHA, it holds official sorority status with the university and therefore must follow all of the same rules, regulations, and guidelines that accompany that status. To add, members in DOK are NOT permitted to be in a social sorority as well.

Disclaimer: this is a personal account and is not an official statement by the sorority

Are they bangable?????????

anyways. think twice before rushing dok.

DOK is just a really REALLY exclusive club, and many members I’ve met are snooty and act better than everyone else just because they managed to be one of the 20 girls that got a bid out of the 50ish that rushed that semester. They like to say that they’re an academic sorority and not like other greek life, but it’s just a clique of girls accepting girls that they like that are vaguely in the health sciences profession of some kind into a giant friend group they pay for. If they really wanted to not be like other greek life, then they should acknowledge that being a club of 90ish girls on a big 10 college campus is only going to get them negative reviews, because it breeds exclusivity. I know someone who’s rushed four times and did not get a bid. At that point, you know that the whole “many members are fondly remembered and accepted on a second rush” just isn’t true. It’s girls that look good to them and can get them connections, when the truth is they’d get more connections and more value as an organization actually behaving like a sorority at a bigger school.