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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, most schools guarantee a spot to any girl who completes formal recruitment and follows all the rules (no skipping parties/events, no “suiciding,” etc.) BUT not all schools have this guarantee.

The sororities want new members. That’s how they make money, and the houses have to have a certain number of active members to remain on campus. I guess I could imagine a situation where hundreds more PNM’s go through formal recruitment than the college was expecting and they have to cut some people as a result? [/quote]

The way it's supposed to work these days, and note my use of "supposed," is that the school adjusts quota (the number of new members a house can pledge) to the number of women wanting to join.

Say there are 10 houses and 1000 women are expected to go through recruitment. Quota will be 100.

After the first round, 100 women who don't like their options drop out. Quota is 90.

This ensures that everyone who completes the process and maximizes their options in each round gets a bid.

Some bidless scenarios:

Sally Smith gets invited back to 3 of 10 houses after the first round. She likes 2 and "doesn't feel a connection" with 1. She writes down 2. She doesn't maximize and she ends up dropped.

Jenny Jones goes to 2 houses for preference (last round). She doesn't like one, so she writes down the name of a totally different house. She is not on a bid list and gets dropped.

Laurie Lane forgets to get her absence at two of her round 3 parties excused. Those sororities automatically release her and she's not asked back to the other two houses. She's dropped. I feel like this is harsh, but I guess it's a life lesson?

When I went through in the days of the dinosaurs, there were plenty of girls who got dropped. They didn't want to be in the "lower-tier" houses and rolled the dice for "elite" houses. They were crushed when they got dropped second round, third round, or pref round. Zero sympathy. There were cool people and awful people in every house, in more or less the same proportion.[/quote]

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