<p>I decided not to rush as a freshman, and now I regret it because I would love to form the life-long friendships that sororities offer. Does anyone know how sophomore recruitment works?</p>
<p>I do not attend the University of Michigan, so I don’t know how serious they are about Greek life.</p>
<p>Here, being a sophomore will hurt you in some respects. You won’t get as many houses back as some freshman, even if you probably would have were you a freshman yourself. That’s just the way it goes. Some houses are pickier than others. The best you can do is put your best self forward and see what you get.</p>
<p>If you have friends in the house that can go a LONG way. </p>
<p>Not sure if all your questions will be answered, but you can probably get more insight about rushing here: [url=<a href=“http://www.greekchat.com%5DGreekChat.com%5B/url”>http://www.greekchat.com]GreekChat.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>As a sophomore, you absolutely 100% need to go in with an open mind. In addition, when you go through recruitment, you may find out you really don’t like any of those 3 you looked at. Thus, you need to maximize your options and go in willing to be happy with ANY of the chapters. If you go in only wanting 3 chapters, the other chapters will pick up on this and cut you, thus giving you less of a chance of receiving a bid.</p>
<p>Go ahead and rush, the worst that can happen is that you don’t get a bid, but you will never know if you don’t try. My fraternity doesn’t hold bids simply because your a sophomore, we give bids to whoever we feel would be a good fit in the fraternity, whether that be a freshman, sophomore, or in rare cases juniors. If you are a good fit for a house, and the actives of that house agree than you will probably get a bid for that house, it’s as simple as that.</p>
<p>Additionally, don’t feel like you need tons of connections in the Greek life to get a bid either, everybody has to start somewhere. You said you could get a letter of recommendation as well, and that’s a great start. You don’t need to be a legacy to use a letter of rec, hell my mom writes letters of recs (for Kappa Kappa Gamma ironically) for girls that we have no blood ties to at all.</p>
<p>If you are not currently part of Greek Life and obviously don’t have close friendships wit the young ladies currently participating in Greek Life then why would you shoot yourself in the foot by 1) going on a website and identifying yourself (because you can just bet that it wouldn’t be hard to figure out which sophomore lives with three ADPi’s and thinks she is too good for them; 2) insulting the majority of the sororities at your school; 3) continues to ignore the answers already given on this and another site? </p>
<p>Go in with an open mind and be prepared for heavy cuts. Many groups do prefer freshman. Spend your time getting recs to make up for your sophomore status, make sure your resume looks great. Hopefully you spent your freshman year getting involved with various school groups and achieving a great GPA in order to make yourself desirable. If you actually do have friends in Greek life, ask them to introduce you to alums that might give you a rec if you don’t personally know alums that can provide them.</p>
<p>If you are not friends with women in your targeted houses, what makes you want to join just those three?</p>
<p>@Hanna–Those are the three ‘top tier’ chapters at UMich. Aka the OP thinks that she’s too good for any of the other chapters, which will (99.9% of the time) blow up in her face if she does choose to go through recruitment. If a member of any UMich chapter is on this or another website, all they need to do is ask an ADPi and they can figure out who this girl is.</p>
<p>Ah, that was my guess, but I was hoping the OP had some other explanation. If the post is genuine, it’s a shame that she’s identified herself this way online…it’s incredible how small a Greek community at a huge university can seem once a good meme gets going. This thread already has 256 views. Lots of sophomores get bids at Michigan, but this is not going to help.</p>
<p>A word of advice: please be more discrete when you are posting online. Sorority women from your school may read these forums.</p>
<p>Rush is a lot harder than you seem to think. You don’t just pick your favorite sorority and automatically get a bid. </p>
<p>You’ve given out enough details for sorority women at your school to identify you. You’ve mentioned that you are only interested in 3 sororities that you consider to be “top tier.” The women in those 3 sororities may find your attitude to be arrogant and presumptuous. The women in all the OTHER sororities at Michigan now know you aren’t interested in being a member of their sororities.</p>
<p>You mention that you’re living with 3 girls who are all in one sorority but you don’t want to be in theirs. How do you think your roommates are going to feel about you now?</p>
<p>If I were you I would delete your original post (if that’s possible) and be much more discrete from now on.</p>