the faced of cob

Hey there you wonderful high school senior, I'm sure you've taken an interest in joining a sorority if you're reading this, and I am so happy. You may be 100% wanting to join a sorority, be kind of considering it, or completely on the fence, but I want to tell you regardless of your interest level if you have the smallest interest in joining a sorority come July, PLEASE SIGN UP FOR FORMAL RECRUITMENT. You'll see on the Greek like website PHA offers informal recruitment in spring. Some of you might be thinking, "I wanna do my own thing first semester" or "I want to adjust to college life first" which are all good things, but can lead you to some complications if you do wait. What you aren't informed is that informal spring recruitment is not participated in by even a third of Mizzou's sorority. There's is no regulation of informal recruitment by PHA which means bias, favoritism and connections control if you're even given an invitation to a recruitment event. Official events are not required to hand out bids, so you might need to have an in with girls in a chapter to get a bid. Lastly the amount of girls invited to rush compared to the amount of girls getting bids are extremely disproportionate and you have a slim chance of receiving a bid. You can avoid this by going through formal recruitment in the fall. All participants have the opportunity to rush every chapter during open house round, connections are almost meaningless unless you're a legacy and conversations and your