Making friends

You know how you really put yourself out and showed your best self during rush? You might have pushed yourself out of your comfort zone so you would come across as friendly, approachable, fun, relatable, etc.?
You need to keep that up AFTER rush too. You need to go to the house as much as possible, introduce yourself (over and over again), ask to sit with different people at lunch and dinner and try to engage them in conversation sort of like you are rushing them, find pledge sisters to walk to the house with, to walk to class with, to sit with in class and at the house, form a small pledge study group, etc. If you put yourself out there and truly make an effort to connect with your new sisters, you will feel like you belong and you will find friends. But you have to make the effort.

If you wear your letters to class (or have them on your backpack/water bottle), other members of your sorority that don't know you yet will introduce themselves.

All the advice given has been great! I'd also recommend being the sweet girl who talks to everyone and is nice to everyone. It's hard to dislike someone when they've been nothing but kind to you and everyone around you. Also remember especially on bid day a lot of girls are in the same position as you and would love to have a random new sister come up to them and start a conversation!

It’s so easy. I feel like it was extremely easy for 98% of the girls in my pledge class and I was in a sorority that gets slammed on here for being super southern and exclusive. I know this might not happen for anyone but for me everything just fell into place. All of the other girls there are meeting new friends too so everybody is pretty nice

There will be opportunities for you to find a niche or a clique. It might not happen all at once. But give it time and you’ll find your place. Maybe you’re the go getter, future leadership type, maybe you’re the volunteer for every committee/philanthropy type, maybe you’re just the “making sure everyone’s feeling included type” who invites the ones who are still finding their place to lunch or to pregame or whatever.