No news from Auburn yet...of course bids won't be given out until 4 PM my time and I don't know what time the girls will be notified if they get no bid. Now if one of them should call and tell me that they got the terrible call, I'll say to them:
"Okay, Rainbow Girl, you have several choices-
1. You can immediately register for COB and see what happens.
2. You can get very very active on the AU campus and rush as a soph.
3. You can transfer (some girls have been accepted at and registered at more than 1 college in case this happens) and rush at the other place in a few weeks."
And we'll discuss each option. I know that some people will be dying laughing or at least shocked about number 3 but Greek life is so important to some people that women do arrange for that option. When I was growing up in Texas, people who didn't get in to a group they wanted at, say, UT, would transfer to TCU or SMU with their deferred rushes. When I was at Auburn, girls transferred to Troy or another medium-sized school. People can make fun of that all they want but there are other things in other parts of the country that are equally important.
If Greek life is what you've grown up with and always expected to do, college life without it can be unthinkable. Both watching my DZ cousin have a fabulous time with her sorority and visiting my grandmother who lived in the middle of sorority row at the U of Arkansas made me know that I just had to be Greek. Two of the Rainbow Girls are legacies and have wanted to be Greek for years.
Y'all please say a prayer for the Rainbow Girls! And all of the other Auburn PNMs
