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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD rushed last year and I was in a sorority.

I preface this all by saying, neither of us rushed in the South.  That's a whole different ballgame that I know nothing about.

It also varies by school but for DD (VA Tech) They suggest what type of outfit to wear for each day of rush.  It gets more formal the further you get into rush.  After each round you list you get to drop a certain # and the sororities drop a certain #.  It goes on like this each round until you get down to 2.  You rank them 1 and 2 and the sororities do the same.  Yes, you may not get your top choice.  You may not even get your second choice but I think that's pretty rare.  If you don't like the bid you end with you don't have to take it.  [/quote]

And are there people that don't get any bids?[/quote]yes, at every round. [/quote]

And thats fine. Because you want to join a sorority with a group of women who share your values. If you dont receive a bid from a specific sorority, its bc they dont think that you share their values. And the matching process should be a two-way street.

Lets say you are a studious woman and you take school seriously. Joining the sorority that is women who only want to party doesnt align with your values. Or if you are a student athelete, the partiers probably wont align w your vales either. [/quote]

Assuming so much here.  At big, southern schools there are so many legacies, it doesn’t matter how perfectly suited you are to their “values” - you’re at the bottom and inevitably get dropped. And it’s lightening fast. You can’t actually get to know anyone so propaganda like this just makes girls feel inadequate and it’s a fine display of the misery of rush. Connections are everything. There have to be girls in the house who already know you somehow or there isn’t a reason in the works for them to pick you over the other 2,000 girls.

It’s a horrendously cruel process. So much so that the nice older girls would rather pay a fine to not participate - because it was a traumatic week for them even with a happy ending of a bid they took.

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For the life of me I cannot fathom why anyone would want to remain a part of an organization that makes them pay to not participate in the "horrendously cruel process". I have enough self esteem to know I don't need to "pay to play"

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