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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone been in this position?

My daughter decided to rush and things have not gone well. She is either going to end up a lowest tier house or no house at all.  
She is a lovely, fun girl with a great circle of deep high school friendships and actually had a great time in the rush activities (loved meeting the girls, thought she was having great connections) but things did not go her way.  I think she hitched her star to several houses where older girls from her high school are and then didn't match with them and then fell down in the rankings.  Or whatever.  I'm not sure. We are not a sorority household.

The upshot is that she's pretty devastated and feeling like every friend she made this past fall (which she was feeling shaky about to begin with) will move on without her as they all are doing better in the rush process. Over winter break she had been casually mentioning wanting to transfer due to the social scene and I assume this will bring up that conversation again. I support her in whatever decision she makes.

If this happened to your daughter (sorority rush did not go well AT ALL), what ended up happening?
Please be kind. I think my child had a very healthy perspective on things but it does feel to her that everyone she knows (her roommate, her hall mates, her other friends) will be joining greek life while she will not and it feels really isolating.  [b]She doesn't care about Greek life but just deeply wants friends and a community.  [/b]

Thank you![/quote]

As a freshman at a big OOS school my DD didn’t get the sorority she wanted. Got another one but wasn’t her vibe so dropped out. Her friends were all in other sororities she wanted, but didn’t end up affecting social life freshman year. Friends invited her to parties, events etc. One of her roommates dropped out early, so was nice. Felt bad beginning of sophomore year because most friends living in sorority. She rushed again and it was easy. She and roommate got their top choice. And now going to live in apartment w many friends next tear. Freshman year she was out of state and everyone had people in state recommending them. Long story. It worked out. I don’t like whole Greek life but she wanted it. We went to a brunch Family Weekend and it was very nice actually. Hang on. I told my daughter at the time in beginning of sophomore year to extend her life to other giris who don’t care abour sororities.[/quote]

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