Spring Recruitment--Sophomore

[UMD1022]

Hi--
I'm a sophomore at the University of Maryland and I want to rush in the spring. I tried to go through fall rush, but because it is very informal, I wound up visiting houses that only took 7 or 8 girls (mostly transfers and legacies) as opposed to the ones that took upwards of 15 or 20 and consequently did not get a bid. For those unfamiliar with Maryland rush, it is VERY informal in the fall (you can choose the houses you go to and there is no Rho Gamma or rush groups or any of that) and very formal in the spring. Not many freshmen rush in the fall, because you need 12 credits to pledge and a lot of freshmen don't have that.

That being said, obviously an overwhelming amount of freshmen rush in the spring. There are a good number of sophomores who do, as well (if I can recall correctly, almost half of AXO's pledge class last spring was sophomores). My question is--how hindered am I in this situation by being a sophomore? My GPA will be high enough for all of the chapters (above a 3.0--most require a 2.8 to get a bid), so that's not a problem. My worry is this--will the chapters I visited in the fall remember me and write me off as being too desperate for rushing again? I only went to 5 of the 14 houses this fall. Also, because I'm a sophomore and I know people in almost every house, I've got a decent idea of which sororities are in my top 6 (I wouldn't narrow it to top 3 yet, because recruitment may change my mind completely--during fall I think I changed my mind about four times because I wound up spending two hours at a house I thought I would hate and wound up loving), so would the rush process seem more tedious than usual for me?

And here's another note: While our spring rush is very formal, we don't need recs or any of that. The only thing that is looked at is our GPA and the overall impression the girls in the sorority get of us.

Any advice (from people familiar with Maryland Greek life and those who are not) would be great!