Can I still join a sorority

Wait for Spring recruitment- look at PHA website or see if anyone is doing COB

axo phi mu and sk are doing cobs i believe they have links in their bios to fill out if your interested! :)

Hun, you're in college now. And you have access to the web. It's time for you to learn how to research these things on your own instead of asking random people.

Hey girlie, so unfortunately joining this fall is no longer possible, everyone will do their new member class initiation within the next few weeks. Normally each semester some chapters will participate in continuous open bidding (COB) after primary recruitment, this is to help fill each chapter’s idealized membership quota and is an informal way of meeting some the girls of a chapter at fun, cute events for the opportunity to receive a bid for membership. Depending on membership retention and how well a chapter performed in primary recruitment, they may or may not participate in COB in the fall. COB is mainly done spring semester. At that point everyone will have had members who have dropped, transferred, or gone inactive, so in spring everyone participates. However, spots available will vary depending on the sorority and their needs, but I’d say approximately 7-25 bids will be given on per chapter. Like I mentioned before COB is an informal process, and with that I say it’s not as a fair and equal of a chance to gain membership than primary recruitment. Having connections with underclassmen (respected lol)members or someone on the exec council can have a lot of influence on who gets bids, of course a few girls with no connections do get bids but that’s definitely the minority. And secondary factors would be your newly established college gpa, and college involvement. We want to see that you were able to make the most of your Mizzou experience and were able succeed in collegiate academics when you weren’t in a sorority- that you can be an asset. If you don’t have a 3.0 gpa after this fall semester, it’s probably not going to work out unless you’re super pretty and personable and that’s only for a select few sororities I won’t name. I think doing COB in the spring is worth a shot, just be aware it’s extremely competitive due to limit spots.

If you’re patient enough to wait, doing primary recruitment as a sophomore is a great and wise option. Tons of sophomores go through recruitment and make it in, don’t worry. It can give you the option to be put into consideration by every chapter, and nepotism isn’t really present like in COB. There’s less of a chance you’d feel as if you settled when you have numerous options.

And i know it doesn’t feel great to miss out on things you would be interested, but your time is soon to come. Make the best of your experience as a student in all aspects this semester and allow yourself to enjoy Mizzou. Study hard, meet new people, challenge yourself, attend sporting events, dabble in some romance, learn about other walks of life, experience new things all while you wait. Wish you the best of luck in your college journey