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Originally Posted by dgdramadawg
carnation, I totally agree with you about #2 and part of #1, but not ALL of it.
I totally agree that there are fabulous women who end up bidless in recruitment, especially at schools like mine... although frequently these bidless women choose to go bidless because they will not give houses that are not "top tier" a try. However, the women who thought they were "supposed" to be in A, B, or C who end up in X, Y, or Z often end up being devoted members of those orgs and can never imagine having gone X, Y, or Z. I can think of multiple girls from my sister's group of friends who went into recruitment hoping to pledge certain houses, got cut, and ended up happy in the houses they pledged, thus "the houses they were supposed to be in."
I guess it all comes down to whether you believe in sorority recruitment predestination or not?  |
What I see a lot of is that a group of girls from AB High School will go to the same university. Several of their older buddies from AB are in a certain sorority there. They envision that all, say, 5 or 6 of them will pledge together and join their friends. It rarely happens because the sorority isn't likely to pledge 5-6 girls from AB, they have to spread their pledge class out geographically so they can be attractive to PNMs from all over the state. Realistically, 2 or maybe 3 from the same school will make it into the same group.
Or Laurie Legacy from Birmingham wants to pledge her mom's sorority at Bama or Auburn. Guess what? There are 150 other legacies of that group rushing and quota is 50 and mom's group isn't going to take all legacies anyway.
In a perfect world, all sororities would be attractive to all PNMs but it's not gonna happen. Even if a PNM is open to 90% of the groups, she might get left with the other 10% and she might have decent reasons not to pledge those. For sure, there was 1 (out of 14) on my campus I wouldn't have pledged.
Every year, I look forward to recruitment and get all excited while I'm writing recs. But then...I also dread the cuts, especially the giant ones after second parties.