[Regina Filangie]

I'm glad you really like Teal so much! Hopefully it will work out for you!

But I do want to echo what everyone else said that nothing is a guarantee until the bid is in your hand. We had a girl a few years ago go through rush, we all really liked her and she was one of those "it" girls that every house wanted. She had a cousin in another house, which we knew, but we were happy to see that she seemed to have an open mind and when pref night came she went to us and her cousins' house. On bid day she got a bid from us, not her cousins' house. Obviously nobody knows for sure what happened but I'm assuming she wasn't cut but it was just a numbers thing. She probably wasn't as high up on their list as she had thought she would be and their house had made quota by the time they got to her name so she got her second choice (us). She came to bid day but cried the entire time, then left before the bid night party even started. Her cousin even tried to pusuade her to stick with it for at least a few weeks and told her that we were a great house but she absolutely refused to come back. She rushed again the next year and that time she was dropped from every house because they all knew what she had done the year before and none of the other houses wanted to waste their time when she obviously just wanted her cousins' house. Her cousins' house had been turned off by her attitude towards us, and her cousin had graduated, so they didn't offer her a bid either. She ended up transferring mid- semester that year and I never heard what happened to her.

So anyway, I don't want to scare you but just don't assume that you're in just because everyone tells you how much they want you to be their sister. Unfortunatly that's part of rush, all the sisters will tell you how much they like you because they want you to keep accepting their invitations either until bid day or until they decide they don't want to invite you back anymore. Keep an open mind towards the other houses and just remember that anything could happen on bid day. Most importantly, I know you said you really like red also but deep down if you know you would only accept a bid from teal don't list other houses on your bid card. I know everyone advises against suiciding but it really hurts the sisters in the other houses if you don't want to be there. But with that said good luck and I hope you get what you want!