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Originally Posted by Benzgirl
Regarding being Preffed by someone you didn't know...that is always the kiss of death (IMHO)
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Actually, knowing what I know now, I could agree with this. It was probably true for Mallory, as I am certain I would have been down their bid list.
As for Carol/Theta...it all worked out in the end. So, apparantly that particular pref party had lots of girls that they really wanted. The girls that I knew or had bonded with that week had others at that same party that they knew or had bonded with also (it is not uncommon to have 1+ rush crush). I got matched with someone I didn't know, but who was veeeerrrry much like me, and in all honesty should probably have been matched to me earlier in the week. Later my best friend told me that she had "always known" that I was a shoe-in to go Theta and had been vocal about that with her sisters. I don't know if that factored into the matching or not. (and little did she know what a tough time I had ranking!)
Also, as I re-read some of my posts, I realized that I didn't do Carol/Theta justice. In an attempt to keep the thread moving, I tried to keep the posts brief, but I was clearly too brief with Carol. A very positive thing about this chapter was that you saw the Carols everywhere on campus... they held leadership roles, all the visible type positions, and were just incredibly active. These were girls that really had their acts together, were smart but also had the balance to have fun. This was very impressive to me. In reading the ranking thread, it sounds as if it were process of elimination. It wasn't.
As for being a sophomore... out of 60 sophomores going through Rush, 4 houses only took one sophomore each and a 5th house didn't take any. There were so many very qualified sophomores going through, and it saddens me that chapters are so rigid on this matter. I was able to "ascend" to an exec position, so it is possible in just three years. Also, the sophomores that I knew contributed mightily to their chapter's overall GPA.
The Code. At first, I wasn't going to post the code on the outside chance that some naive 17 year old future Horned Frog might be reading this and base judgments on the houses from my experience 15ish years ago. Then I decided that if they were dumb enough to do that, then they get what they deserve! Some chapters have really changed in the time since, so my impressions are of no reflections of the houses today.
So here goes:
Carol- Theta
Mallory- Kappa
Tootie- ZTA
Winnie- ADPi (and no, violet, I didn't know about Danica McKeller!)
Daisy Duke- Pi Phi. (several guesses have come in to me via PM from current students, and not one has gotten this one right)
Chrissy- KD. They closed down soon after, and were later replaced by Sigma Kappa.
Flo- AChiO
Vanessa- ChiO
Weezy- TriDelt (no current student guessed this one right either)
Laverne- DG (again, several guesses, and none correct here).
And of course, Gamma Phi Beta colonized there this past year. So.. Greek Life at TCU remains strong. Yay!