Reply to Sorority Rush

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Sorority Rush"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]as long as she's at a "normal" school, ie not SEC, recommendations will not matter, neither will legacy status. My DD got cut from my sorority after the round robin even with more than just my recommendation. Her roommate got dropped by her mother's house (as in same sorority, same school). Just doesn't matter at most schools.

My DD is in a very reasonably priced house at a normal college, which has a competitive Greek system but nothing like Alabama, Ole Miss etc.  It's not a place where the girls are wearing $1K shoes and dropping in designer jewelry and clothes. Those girls go to other sororities.

There will be a place for your DD as long as she is open minded and not hung up on the most popular houses. [/quote]

I was never in a sorority nor my friends, so I don’t understand why girls get cut or dropped. [b]Is it because they need to keep membership numbers to a certain number[/b]? [/quote]

of course this is true. Each house has a quota that is set by the inter sorority council based on the total number of PNMs and the number of houses. Then when the girls go to the first round and visit all the houses, they rank the order of their preference, and the house ranks their order of preference. If the girl is not high on a particular houses list, she will get dropped. The more popular the house, the more girls want to go back and continue to rush there, therefore the more limited spaces. There are usually houses where pretty much anyone can join because they are not as much in demand and the number of houses you can go to is reduced by each round of rush. So it starts wide open, then the houses have to cut the number to return to the next round. Houses get cut off girls lists, and girls get cut off houses lists. The more open minded the PNM, the more likelihood that they will end up somewhere. The OPs kid suicided, meaning she had two houses left at the final round, and was guaranteed a bid to one of the two. For whatever reason, she decided she did not want to accept a bid from one of the houses, so she only put down one on her preference list. That left open the risk that she would not get a bid at all, which is why the OP was nervous.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics