what sororities are doing informal recruitment in the

Check out these sororities Instagrams or look at girls in the house and see if there's anyone you think you could be friends with. A LOT of cool girls joined bottom and unhoused chapters this year after a botched rush on the sorority side, you can find your friends and be the change you want to see in any house

Your better alternative as a sophomore would have been to continue your recruitment into attending pref parties (were you so invited) then possibly (if you still dislike your choices) not listing any pref choice afterward. THEN you would have known FOR SURE you "did not like" the houses you gave up on.

Sorority women are taught to make all their guests feel at ease and will not intentionally lead-on a pnm they do not feel 'fits'; your sisterhood round invite choices were given with all the respect and thought sorority women put into choosing their future sisters.

Here at IU your choice to recuse yourself from recruitment during sisterhood round indicates personal choosiness that must be taken with future lack of sorority bid opportunity.

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There will always be houses considered top/middle and bottom until the pairs are either randomly selected or assigned. Unless that happens, there will continue to be hundreds of pnms who get their feelings hurt and drop out when they don't get into one of the chapters considered "top". They are more afraid of a perceived social stigma than they are of missing out on the Greek experience. Then they regret their decision and are still trying as Juniors when they could have ended up happy in a house freshman year enjoying more years of building memories. Panhel has to take the lead on initiating this change to make the entire system better. Start with an experiment of 50% randomly assigned socials and you will see all of the houses get stronger.

That’s not always true. I didn’t rush my freshman year at all because I didn’t think Greek life was something I wanted to be a part of. Obviously I changed my mind, but I didn’t drop because my feelings were hurt or I got bottom tier houses; I have friends in a lot of different houses including DPhiE and ASA. But I didn’t feel like I would fit in with the people that invited me back. I didn’t want to settle for people I couldn’t see myself associating with just to be a part of Greek life.

Whether you dropped bc you were getting bottom houses or not the fact remains that as a junior there are 2-3 houses that will even consider you I'm not saying this to be mean I'm saying this because I want to give you realistic advice so you can hopefully join a house if that's what you want to do. If you have friends in Asa and dphie look at girls they're friends with in their house and see if you think you could fit in after all. almost anyone can find their group of people in almost every house and you wouldn't be bff's with every single girl in your chapter no matter which of the 22 you joined. testing it out can't hurt even if you decide to not get initiated in the end

tier system is never going to change. it just wont. with 22 sororities and even more frats and such a big school not every house is going to be on the same page. plus, half the tier system is just because of sororities and frats forming bonds. the real issue is how tiers are looked at. I have many friends in "lower tier" houses and during rush visited many of them and all the ladies in those houses are great women and joined their chapter for a reason. there is however in issue in how houses are perceived. even within my own house I get annoyed with people who look down at lower and even middle tier houses. every house has their own amazing qualities and theres no reason to disregard another chapter bc thats what makes the greek community hostile and gives it a bad reputation. As for the original question, do informal as a junior because it would be the same houses. many houses will not invite you back as a junior during informal because they need to fill up spots in their house, not have live outs and it makes the pledge class divided

The tier system would change if IU really wanted it to. At Mizzou the pairs are determined randomly and each sorority is paired with an NIC fraternity and then either a smaller NIC or a multicultural fraternity. Because it is done randomly, there isn't a stigma attached to your pair. The fraternities are fined and other sanctions are imposed if they don't participate in the activities, for example a few years ago one of the fraternities (for whatever reason) didn't help out with homecoming at all so they were fined and then they were not allowed to pair for the next event. Until the SLL office decides it wants change, it won't happen.