about sorority recruitment

HP?

Highland Park.

She is right.....if you are in state with no connections focus more on ones outside of big six. If you have connections with two in big six you can certainly go stay with them in the spring and try to get to know more but just be honest with yourself. If ones you know want you, they will introduce you around a lot. If that isn’t happening, recognize that for whatever reason you probably are not going to be one of the 300 out of 1100 they are keeping after the first round. PKT does not do any recruiting in the summer. Rest do both Spring and summer. If you aren’t getting asked to do stuff over the summer by Zeta, Tri Delt, or Chi O you
probably are not on their target lists. I know girls who were who did not get into any of big six though. Just go in knowing what it is. Rush week is awful for both sides but so fun rest of the year to be in a sorority.....any one!

k thats what i thought

80% of girls dropping on their own? Yeah, they're dropping bc SDT is their ONLY option. If you're even considering UT and you don't have a TON of connections from school or camp or whatnot, just drop the money and hire a sorority rush coach. Or settle for SDT when everyone else drops you.

Uh oh.... Howd oes anyone end up with 40 girls pulling for them? I think I will know several in all big six chapters but to think that I might end up with that many who are actually want me badly enough to be pulling for me sounds.....unlikely. I know girls and they probably liked me at school and camp and I was very involved but they were older so I didn't know them that well. For sure not 40! Unless.....do girls pull for girls from their schools or camps if they knew them or of them but weren't the best of friends?

if you went to camp, then you probably know girls in the big six or the mid tiers. girls pull for girls they know/like and having gone to camp will help.

I know the OP's already gone through recruitment, but I agree - a lot of girls actually get dropped from all the houses vs. drop out. There are just so many stellar rushees coming through, it's uber-competitive. You really do need about 40 actives pulling for you, but it's possible because we all did it!

If you somehow get dropped before pref night there's no going back - you just don't get anything. I'm sure Panhellenic is trying to workout a better process, but until then, no - no rushees are guaranteed any house, not even a bottom tier (especially now that they've taken SDT out of formal rush). This sorority rush coach wrote a pretty good article addressing a bunch of UT-related rush stuff on her site (Hiking Heels Rush Coaching). Hope recruitment went really well for you.

Just be yourself.

All of this "you need to know 40 people, etc." is ridiculous. If you are cute, smart, outgoing and participated in athletic and other group activities you will be wanted by a lot of great sororities. Be talkative to everyone in every house. Never think, I will never get in to this particular sorority. Also, make sure you have a letter of recommendation for each house. You will be fine!

Just be yourself. Also please stop putting personally identifying information on here for your own good!

I think you're thinking too much into this. Don't worry about it until you get to rush because different people give you different opinions.
I didn't know anyone going through and still got a mid tier house that I loved.
Yes sororities have pre recruitment "strategies" but if you are a awesome and personable girl houses will want you, even if you don't know anyone in the house.

Difference between big six and others during rush is that you do not have to know people in order to get a bid. Only reason big six is so hard is because so many girls already know each other in those. Be yourself and enjoy the week.

"Enjoy the week"
Said no one about rush ever.

OP: you may end up surprised, positively or negatively. But you can always try again as a sophomore too if you end up not having enough connections or if (unlikely) you do get cut from all of the houses except sdt.

I know one SRD girl who is super cute, a cheerleader, salutatorian and student council member at her big, suburban TX high school who only had SDT and AEPhi left. She's a little overweight and i can't help but think that was the reason why.

I've gotten to know and love 2 gorgeous girls from California who dropped after getting cut from big 6 and 2 of the mids, so they had options they weren't willing to take.

This talk about 'just be yourself, you'll be fine' is SO off (really means, at the very least, you will end up with bottom tiers or just SDT).

lol


KD and AZD are bottom tier who take the girls who didn't go big 6 or mid 3;

says only KDs and AZDs

this site is not for alums from greekchat trying to boost their bottom tier groups; ALL UT chapters have great sisterhoods but it's just a matter of the cool girls versus the randoms (SDT), awkwards (ADPi), not-so-cute girls (ADPi, SDT), wanna be's/try-hards (KD, KD and KD) and country-cute leftovers (AZD).

^^^^MY thoughts EXACTLY!

Yep. Let's make mid 3 the future bottom 3 by getting rid of current bottom ADPi, KD, AZD. You just don't get it.

If those are your only options left as a freshman it's not going to be any better as a sophomore. This is dumb advice. Some girls just aren't ever going to have what it takes to get anything other than bottom tier. There's nothing wrong with that and if they take the chance and accept their bid they will eventually realize they are where they fit in best.

I'd also put DG right down there with adpi and kd. Stop flattering yourselves.

Ps This advice doesn't apply to SDT at all. It's better to be independent than part of that little freak show.

OH PLEASE. Spoken like a bottom active trying not to be jealous of mid tier DG.

OP: If you manage to get a bid from DG, you are very lucky; TAKE IT! They aren't Big 6 but they are definitely NOT down there with KD and ADPI. Here it is:

top-PKT (Pi Phi, Kappa, Theta)
CHIO, DDD, ZETA

mid-AXO, APHI, DG

bottom-KD, ADPI, AZD

SDT

nice try DG, your new pc was lower than kd's