not getting a bid

My advice to you is to try your best to turn on your confident, outgoing self but don't be someone you aren't. I'm on the shy side too and I just tried my best to smile and ask questions. The actives are going to be carrying the conversation most of the time so all you have to is go with it! You have a lot going for you and houses definitely value involvement, service, and grades so just keep an open mind and I think you'll be fine!
Also, try your best to let go of what you read on here. Some of the houses with the more sweet, quiet, girls are not going to get the best rankings on here but that doesn't mean they aren't an amazing house that you'll fit into perfectly!

My freshman year on the way to columns (bid day is at the stadium now) to walk to bid day I got the most heartbreaking phone call from my Pi Chi that I did not receive a bid from any sororities. I cried for 2 hours straight. I went through recruitment entitled and with preconceived notions and really wanted to be a GPhi and had been invited back there literally all week, also went to Theta and APhi on preference, but when it came time to preference GPhi was the only sorority I listed (single option or suicide preferencing). In 2015 when I was a sophomore I signed up for recruitment again, and this time with a more open mind and I ended up in a sorority different than any of the ones I mentioned before and I absolutely love it. Yes, not getting a bid is possiblility, but the likelihood isn't that huge. Learn from my experience and don't single option preference, because I very well could have been Greek my freshman year had I not limited my options. Also staying in recruitment the whole time will help you get a bid. Most girls who don't get bids drop out of recruitment. Don't be worried but please learn from this.

Obviously I have no idea if this is actually going to be how it ends up, but if you do the math if every single girl who is signed up for recruitment got in a house it would be about 74 girls per house. When I went through recruitment two years ago there was over 90 girls per pledge class and had every girl gotten into a house it would have been about 115 girls per house. There will still be girls who drop and get cut but its fair to assume these numbers will be less and houses will want as many girls as they can get.

I am going to be a sophomore, and during fall recruitment I did not get a bid. I was absolutely heartbroken. My roommate and I both were in the same situation, and we both really focused on our grades first semester. Second semester I COB'd and ended up in an amazing house and met some awesome friends. Informal recruitment is a great option!!