avoiding the bottom tier

If you want a good recruitment, practice conversations. If you are a joy to talk to ( you smile at appropriate times, you have good things to say, your breath smells like nothing or is minty), you will leave a good impression. It comes naturally to some girls; other girls might have to work for it. Nothing is worse than being with someone, either an active talking to a PNM or vise-versa, that cannot hold a conversation. Sometimes the active might be fighting off being sick ( workshops and rounds take a toll on actives- cut us some slack), so you might have to ask questions or show interest in us/ carry a lot of the conversation load. Some of the best conversations I had was with a “lower-tier” house, so remember you are looking for sisters. I ended up in a “top-tier” OR house, but it was because I loved it there and had an amazing time, not because of status ( I’m out-of-state, do it truly did not matter that much to me). I had some of my worst experiences at other OR houses that kept me around through sisterhood for who knows why ( my grades? Because I was a legacy that they wanted to “steal”?). Don’t get too caught up in the tier thing. Go where you belong or fit and you’ll be much happier.

Don't rush. Seriously, please. If you do rush and end up with what you think are "bottom" tier sororities at any point, please just drop out of the process and open up a chance for a girl who would LOVE a bid to that sorority and accept it with appreciation and graciousness. Don't go to pref with these houses. Don't accept a bid intending to drop the house that really wanted you but was beneath you. That way you can stay out of them and they will dodge a bullet. Win-Win.

The same thing that's going to keep you out of any chapter: can't afford membership, bad attitude, only interested in clout.

don’t rush. please

Girls like the OP make me sick. I hate the bad attitude. My hope is that you get dropped from everywhere. LOL!

This post makes me sad! I’m in what is considered a bottom tier house and I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER. I found my people - the closest group of friends I could have asked for. If I had dropped out because I didn’t have a top tier house to choose from I would gave missed out on the best years of my life. Just give every house a chance no matter where it ranks.

You are probably too stupid to rush. The goal of rush is to end up in a house with your forever friends. Not to make yourself look more popular than you are. Geeesh! If you really don't want to take a chance in ending up in a "lower" house, please don't go through rush. With your attitude you might get dropped everywhere and if you don't, you'll probably dislike the houses that do invite you back. At Bama there are really no "lower" houses regardless of what you read on here. They are different somme mostly Alabama, some mostly Southern, some mostly OOS, some more academic, some more party, but ALL of them have all kinds of girls and you will find your bridesmaids in whatever house you're in. The ones who miss out are the ones who, like you, think they're too good for the houses that like them, and pine for the houses that dropped them.

PNMs, every Bama house is fantastic and most likely the best and largest chapter within their respective national sorority. Most have been the best within their national group for at least a generation. In fact, most Bama houses, including more than half the NR houses and many "bottom" houses, have been on campus 50+ years and have multiple generations of die-hard house legacies that would love to join the sorority they have heard their family talk about for years, knowing the sorority is fantastic no matter what rank the house is on GR. My point being is that every house on campus is amazing and could easily fill their house with PNMs that really want that house. EVERY house has to make hard cuts of fantastic women every round and, sadly, plenty of terrific women are released from recruitment without invites back to any house. If you are invited back to a house, it is solely because they wanted you. If you recieve a bid from a group of 400 women that valued you and selected you to join them over other women they cut, but you reject them because you think you would be happier in a group that did not select you to join them.... then you are greatly mistaken. Remember, you make the sorority, it does not make you. However, If you need a specific house to feel validated and know you could not be happy with a bid from a lower ranked house, there is a very easy fix. At the earliest party, quietly tell the member showing you around any house deemed beneth you, that you do not want to be invited back. The house will oblige and you will not be invited back. Happily, this opens doors for PMMs that desperately want to join the lowly house. Problem solved.

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1. Don't be a troll