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Colonization is completely different from recruitment. The National Sorority wants to start a chapter with women from all grades, who best represent their organization's ideals. You will be expected to discuss your grades, community service and campus and community activities, and some aspects of your personal life and ability to meet financial requirements. They want women who are willing to put in the hard work of starting a chapter from the ground up (learning everything about the national organization while establishing the local chapter's bylaws, philanthropy, etc). Nationals will be heavily involved with every aspect of colonization right through installation and initiation, and continue to be very involved afterwards(so if you are looking to party with a sorority, this is not the place for you). Instead of women your age meeting you and voting on you, women from the national organization will hand pick the women they believe will best represent them at URI. Kind of like a job or a business (but in the end, a sorority is a business). Since URI's ceiling is 115, they will probably aim for that. Mostly freshman and sophomores, but they will try to recruit some juniors and seniors. Sometimes colonization gets a mixed bag of people and personalities (to put it nicely)--depends on how many people really want to start a new sorority.

They want well rounded women who will represent them well. Good grades, community service, and campus involvement will all matter, as will social interactions with the National representatives.

It should be said...don't get sucked into thinking a "new" sorority is going to be better than what is already here. The houses that are here have been around for a long time, have homes on campus, alumni to support them, established traditions, etc. Just because you might hear rumors or negative things about them (you will hear that about EVERYONE, and soon you will hear it about KD, too)doesn't mean its true. If you have never been through recruitment, you owe it to yourself to go to DZ and ChiO and any other house recruiting before you make the decision to go for a colony. It's fine if you've been through recruitment and felt like you didn't fit in any house, but don't decide that the existing sororities aren't right for you if you haven't bothered to meet them and really find out what they are all about.