informal recruitment

You are in phase 3.
Sororities 7 & 8 historically offer COB.

1. Denial - Yes you were cut.
2. Anger - That srat cut me late.
3. Bargaining - COB, wait it is just for srats 7 & 8.
4. Depression - @2 weeks of - what did I do wrong.
5. Acceptance - Completing transfer apps for UT and your home state university.

Then for an ego boost, a few Saturday nights at the Greenville Ave. Club scene with your fellow GDIs.
Followed by spending Spring Break finding summer session housing at your upcoming transfer university.
You will be packed-up and ready to leave a week before Spring semester finals.
After your last final, straight to the car & gone....

Hateful legacy lady again. No one here talks down "sororities 7 & 8." In fact we all have friends in the sororities she puts dosn

PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1997

OTHER THAN THE ACROPOLIS, IT’S HARD TO FIND SOMETHING more Greek than Southern Methodist University.

The Pig Run is about to begin. It’s Saturday afternoon and a crowd of young women-all dressed in jeans and white turtlenecks-has been corralled into a Student Center ballroom on the SMU campus.

If the girls like the houses, they wait to be invited back again and again; if they weren’t so impressed, they “cut” the house. At the same time, houses are “cutting” girls they don’t consider “real draws”-worthy pledges. Such is the weeding out process that leaves many girls limping back to the dorms devastated and wondering why they ever wanted to go through such a humiliating time consuming two semester rigged legacy dominated ordeal.

It’s extremely difficult to find out how many girls in each house have legacies-although all of the houses give priority to the girls who do. One of the questions on a Rush application asks if the girl has a legacy; if she does, she’ll get “points” for it later in the selection process. Ashley is not a Big Three legacy and her mother says it was nearly “the kiss of death.”

“I would never let a child do that again [go through SMU Rush without being a legacy],” she says. “It can get very mean when adults are involved in the process and end up hurting a child.”

Hurting them emotionally, socially, academically and her family financially.

any house that’s not at total can cob, so it changes every year...usually the house will contact you if interested or u can reach out to someone and ask if they’re doing cob

You are in phase 3.
Sororities 7 & 8 historically offer COB.

3. Bargaining - COB, wait it is just for srats 7 & 8.

As in years & decades past:

Most of the newly GDIs were encouraged to proceed with COB to find a possible opening. Only sorority 7 & 8 were involved in COB this week. These were the sororities most were Not Interested In. Once realized of the GDI reality, it was Wednesday, far too late to transfer to another university or to ask your parents the short notice to make the dangerous wintery drive to Dallas.

It was pointed out that a vast majority of the top 6 sorority PCs were pre-determined. Only a few true openings were actually available to the non-connected. Fall Sophomore rush is very similar to COB. Only sorority 7 & 8 usually take pledges. Those Sophomores that go through recruitment a second time in the Spring are usually cut early and are given bids from sorority 7 & 8 again. Sorority 7 may/will probably cut you as a sophomore.

Pretty depressing. Tonight, my roommate and many of the newly pledged girls are out at sorority parties. The 10 -12 newly GDIs on our floor are studying or watching the Shopping Network.

We did nothing to deserve this social isolation. Just obeyed the recruitment rules and trusted the top 6 sororities with their verbal bid encouragement. We are stuck here as social outcasts by design of the University and Panhellenic.

Contact Panhellenic

Dg, axo, theta, gphi

Theta is doing cob? Did they not meet quota (what even was the quota this year, does anyone know??)

7 & 8 as always.
Read the posts from the past few years.
Same EVIL process each year.

Adding theta & dg was just another sorority attacking them.

Yes Theta took COBs. Panhellenic didn’t officially say they were but I know of people that got bids. Panhellenic said the houses doing COB were DG, Alpha Chi, and Gamma Phi.