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Old 08-20-2008, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94 View Post
OP,

I'm not blaming the young women for choosing poorly certainly, but it's possible that the scenario described earlier in the thread did play out a little bit for her.

If she got most of the twelve that she wanted at the end of round one and she is like most PNMs, it may be the case that these were the absolutely most selective chapters who are probably least likely to take many sophomores. Had she instead gone back to her bottom five for second round and these were less selective chapters (for lack of a better way of expressing it), it's possible that she would have ended up with a bid.

Carnation, who I haven't seen posting but who is kind of an SEC rush expert, has noticed that at UGA it's much better to be cut hard after first round because then there's a good chance you can stick with some of your remaining chapters all the way through. If instead you are in a position to "cut" chapters after first, but then are cut hard yourself after second, you have nowhere to go.

This may have been a little bit what happened to your goddaughter.
But the scenario you described is clearly NOT what happened. At UGA you can attend a maximum of 12 parties for round 2. This girl attended 10. This means that 7 groups released HER and SHE did not cut any groups. Where these houses that she visited fell within her rankings we don't know, but it doesn't really matter if they were her top choices or her bottom choices. SHE DID NOT CUT ANY SORORITIES. She attended every party that she was invited to during the week and was released from every house. We do not know the reason why she went bidless, but we know that it was NOT because she didn't maximize her options.
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