rushing as a soph - rec letters yes/no?

Yes, get letters of recs. Always better too.

Considering your situation, keep in mind:
-Since you are a sophomore you are no longer as attractive as a prospect. So get letters of rec.
-Your old house probably will not offer you a bid again.
-If a girl doesn't like you for a good reason, she can black ball you.

Continue through rush, but it is very unlikely that you'll get a house better than your old one. Its always worth a try though

Thanks for the response! So can I definitely count out my old house and the house I preffed it over? (I actually preffed my old house over a 'higher ranked' house)

Also, I know I have the option of not going back to the house that I dropped the previous year. If I'm not likely to get a bid from them again, should I just not go back to the house?

Its funny, I've been answering your questions and I'm fairly certain you were in my house hahaha.

During rush, its mandatory to return to every house you've been invited to. You have the chance of being disqualified from rush if you don't. Trust me, there will be no hard feelings when you go back to whatever house and no one will be rude or mean to you and that you'll only go there one day unless they believe they should give you another chance.

p.s. There is a girl who is in my pledge class who joined her freshman year and came back the next year to join my pledge class. She couldn't be loved more. So, it all depends on situation.

To ...: I dropped a week after rush, but it's very possible we met in the time frame. I wish I had a way of figuring out who you are just as easily. Regardless, thank you for your responses - especially the bit about no hard feelings and rudeness, that does quite help since it's a scary prospect. Maybe I'll get lucky to be rushed by you in the fall. I thought I had heard something about not going back to a house where you had gotten a bid and then dropped, but I must've been mistaken. Rush itself isn't any fun, especially since I felt like a lot of the girls I met had been trained to do it since they were tiny, especially the legacies, while I had my family mocking me for wanting to join something that's portrayed pretty poorly in the media and non existent where we live.

Also, one more q: as a sophomore pnm, how many recs should I strive to get? How many would be too few or too little?

To Soph PNM and another Soph:

Not sure how many recs to be honest. When I rushed, I had max 3 at a specific sorority, just because I had that many family friends wanting to write me one. I would go with 1 or 2 for each house because the point is to be on their radar.

But sadly with a lot of these questions, I can't answer them to the best of my ability because I am not part of the recruitment team at my house and don't really ask my friends in other houses about it. I'd hate to lead you astray about something that I'm not an expert on.

Black balling is a girl specifically asking for a certain PNM not to be in their house. I haven't heard many instances of it that could be proved as anything more than a rumor and I haven't really heard of any cases in my house.

another Soph: You do have a chance of getting back into the sorority you pledged last semester, so don't lose all hope. Just rush and see what happens(Maybe someone else on her can give you better advice about this)

My best advice for you both is to simply get letters of rec, ensure you have above a 3.0 and be yourself. There is no harm in trying and you never know where you'll end up. Good luck this fall!

Who would you get rec letters from? People you work for, professors, etc? Or any woman you know who's been a part of a sorority that you're hoping to get in? Current or graduated sorority members? And if so, would it be limited to only USC alumni?

Another poster said to ensure to have above a 3.0. If you don't will that hurt you a lot? Do many girls get cut all the way from rush?