recruitment

You are going to have to keep a very open mind. Many sororities will cut you immediately. Sorry, but that is the hard truth. Concentrate on the ones that invite you back, and don't get upset if you have a smaller pool of sororities that are interested in you. Good luck!

If you're a junior, these houses might be an option for you:
Alpha Omicron Pi
Delta Zeta
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Chi Omega
Gamma Phi Beta
Alpha Xi Delta
... all depending on how well you do, of course.

I feel like that's unfair in a way... What about transfers who just came to OSU this year? They will just be dropped because of their age without given a chance by half of the chapters to show they could be a great fit?

I just don't understand because you girls want other girls who are like you and are a good fit for a particular sorority so it doesn't seem necessarily fair to just cut someone just because you can't get more money from them or they're a little older. What if they would be a great attribute and a great sister? Who cares how old someone is if they are willing to put themselves out there and make the most of the time they have left at a university? I wouldn't be any less appreciative being older than girls in my pledge class.. There are older girls who you could hang out with too. You all just shut people out to make money and don't think it could really benefit someone to have the opportunity to be apart of a sorority of their choice as well.

There are a few chapters that will be interested in you if you are as good as as you say. It's just that you can't expect a top or mid-tier chapter to be all over you when there are so many great girls that are going through as freshmen.

Our chapter doesn't plan to take more than about 10 sophomores and even those girls need to be our top PNMs with very good grades.

Question to the Junior who is rushing. What is your GPA and what involvement do you have on campus?

isn't planning on taking juniors, if we do it would only be 1 or so. and i'm in one of the "bottom" houses, so i don't know if thats what you want to hear...

im in a middle sorority and i dont know if we have ever taken a junior for formal. we basically treat freshman and sophomores the same, but the sophomores are mainly friends or siblings of members.
anyway, i wouldnt take anything said here as the final say. go through as if every house would be lucky to have you. if you try your hardest, you never know.

I'm in a mid tier chapter and we will not take any juniors. We have so many sophomores that we probably will minimize the number of sophomores we take too. Sophomores will need to be very involved and have high GPAs (3.5+); it helps to know girls in our house so they can pull for you when we discuss sophomores.

I encourage you to go through recruitment but keep your options open if you want to be in a sorority.

I'm a member of a "bottom tier" and we have wont take any juniors and can only take up to 5 sophomores. The sophmores need to be top pnms for us. Aka, good gpa, involved, etc.