Sorority Recruitment

hi_im_leila
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:36:54 +0000

I’m out-of-state and I got a bid to one of my top choice houses. As long as you keep an open mind throughout the process and don’t have your heart set on one house or nothing then you should be fine. Many of the girls who go bidless are the ones that don’t keep their options open and drop when things don’t go their way.

The housed sororities are the more competitive ones. Theta Phi Alpha re-colonized this past year and had a really successful recruitment, and Alpha Sigma Alpha will be re-colonizing this fall. They operate and work very much the same way as the other Panhellenic sororities on campus; they just don’t have a chapter house. But until IU is willing to give up more land for Greek housing (highly unlikely), these chapters probably won’t be building houses in the near future. They’re still a solid option though and shouldn’t be discounted during recruitment. Just keep an open mind and the process should work itself out the way it’s supposed to.

Also, there’s only so much that knowing certain girls in a sorority can do for you. I can promise that our membership selection process is much more than that. Just because you’re from Carmel or a Chicago suburb that sends a lot of people to IU doesn’t mean you’re automatically guaranteed a bid.