honestly....

It's good to have connections honestly. But it's also good to have a steller resume. You may not get the absolute top houses without connections (which may be through the alumnae who writes your rec, by the way), but you will at least get a houses with lovely sisters.

So if you don't actually know any sorority women in the houses but have at least one rec for each house that could count as a "connection"? Do recs really help to improve your chances?

Get a rec letter for every house regardless of if you know anyone. Contact your local alum association or moms friends for recs. All if does is help you through the recruitment process.

You won't know unless you try. Get rec letters from every house (contact your local panhel. association and they can help). It's hard to believe you don't know any sorority women, though! We are usually a pretty active/involved on campus type. Go through recruitment with an open mind and you won't be disappointed!

If you don't want to do formal recruitment there might be COR opportunities in the spring. Get to know some sorority women to find out.

to find sorority women - go to the front of the class, look for 'the uniform'... yoga pants & long t-shirt advertising some greek event. Talk to any of them, they're friendly types!

There are some houses that primarily pick girls that are from their area. So be prepared to be cut by those houses. The others are more diverse so it doesn't happen as much and you have a fighting chance not knowing anyone going into recruitment. It will be tougher for you, and you will be frustrated but you need to remember it isn't you, it's your address & lack of contacts. On the flip side the reason this is an issue is that the girls in those houses are faced with huge numbers of little sisters, best friends, teammates, camp friends, etc. that they actually have known for years versus you- so much easier to cut a non-relationship based PNM earlier and then have to cut some of those relationship girls (they don't all make it either). But there are many great houses that don't fall into that category. Go into it with an open mind and I'm sure you'll find a house you love. Personally, I didn't know anyone either and I'm very happy with my house. Good luck & go greek!

I attend a small university (with no greek life) outside of Texas and I'm planning on transferring, so I don't know many people in Texas at all. I might also add that I will be a sophomore if/when going through recruitment. I am sure every house at A&M is full of great girls and I'd be happy to be a part of any house. However I am curious as to which houses are super selective meaning only picking girls from a certain area or girls they know. I will definitely keep an open mind but I'd like to know which houses I should most expect that from? And thanks for all the advice everyone!

How important are test scores? If you have a not so great SAT score but a good gpa is that ok??

I didn't know anyone, or get any rec letters. I only got cut from one house, I am loving where im at now!!!