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Originally Posted by southernyankee
Is there ever a good time to "suicide"? Like when a girl gets invites to two sororities on pref night. One she is crazy about...the other, she knows she will not pledge. It is drilled into her head not to suicide...so she dutifully puts both the GLO's down on her pref card, and the worst happens(at least in her mind)...she is offered a bid to the sorority she has no intention of joining. Wouldn't it be better for her and the sorority she will refuse...for her to go solo and hope for the best? I have heard stories from girls that maybe they would have gotten their first choice if they would not have listed the second on their pref card because the sorority they didn't want had them high on the bid list...and the one they truly wanted had them somewhere in the middle...but because her second choice ranked her so high...she basically had no shot at her first choice. I suppose this could apply to just first and second choices period. Doesn't alot of the matching have to do with how high each sorority places you on their bid lists?
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Ok I was just looking into this. . . at the university I deal with . . . ics does not allow "ranking" beyond the parties that you attend. (for example you go to ABC and XYZ on pref and you only want ABC then you must put both sororities down to be eligable for "quota additions" or "snap bidding" . . . in case you are not on ABC's first list [however if you suicide and you arent on ABC's first list then that is IT! NOTHING!])
BUT, what I was thinking (and someone else might have already said this) is if I was a pnm, and I knew what I know now, I would put ABC first and then some other sorority that I didn't attend their pref night second. (cause if you don't go to someones pref then you aren't anywhere on their bid list) Then you aren't "suiciding" so, you are eligable for another sorority or ABC if they get to your ranking. I don't think the GAMMA CHI's can say that but at least that would not leave the pnm in a sorority that that think they HATE and that leaves them open to CR's. And that also doesn't leave a spot in XYZ for a girl that wants them . . . when the pnm doesn't "run".
I hope that made sense.