junior bids?

You are just too old

It's really hard to get a bid as a junior. If you have close friends who are willing to pull really hard for you, it could work but usually most houses don't take juniors - maybe one or two at the most

I'm a sophomore transfer and the same thing happened to me. I think I'm going to do the AGD colonization thing just to see how it goes - you should try it too! If we can get a lot of just like normal, pretty sophomores/juniors who got cut mostly just because of their age, etc, maybe it'll be good enough to pull a decent pledge class next fall and be middle tier ish. Obviously it won't be the same experience but at least you'd still be able to be a part of Greek life and meet people, go to mixers and other events, etc. And since it's new so it wouldn't carry any of the stigma that the lowest tier houses do

The new row for middle and lower tier girls? Maybe that's your ticket?

Panhellenic REQUIRES houses to take at least 2 juniors, are these juniors usually already familiar with the house?

hopefully by your junior year you'll realize how immature the whole greek system is

At this point if you want to have a sorority experience in college you should look at the sororities doing informal recruitment. Rushing as a junior is a bad idea, and you'll most likely end up wasting a year and being in the same spot as your are now.

Which houses will probably do informal recruitment this year?

It is interesting to me that there were two houses that thought you'd be a good sister, but you thought you were too good for them. Makes me think you'd be a wonderful sister!

It is rare, but possible, for a sophomore to have a better rush than they did freshman year. There are cases here or there of girls who accepted bids to mid-tier homes and then got top tier the next year...but wayyyy more common for the other way around to happen.

It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to have a better rush junior year than sophomore year, however. Whatever options you had this year as a sophomore, you will have worse next year. Why? Sophomores are (generally) not penalized during rush. Due to the fact that this school has so many spring transfers, sororities will take a full portion of sophomores. Freshmen may be preferred, but you will never get cut simply because you are a sophomore. This is true from top houses to bottom.

Juniors are way different. Generally a sorority will have a junior "quota" that does not count against normal quota. Sororities will gladly take up these "free spaces" (2 is common), but no more.

So what does that mean? Outside of struggling chapters, most sororities will only take 2 juniors. That means just short of 20 juniors will get bids, and only 8 will get "top houses". I was not on numbers this year, but a recent recruitment had just over 80 juniors. Do the math...

So essentially, juniors getting a bid from ANY top or mid-tier sorority are the cream of the crop that should have had whatever house they wanted as a freshman or sophomore. So good luck, but expect no better than what you had...

I'd look at AGD.