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It's hard to say. Both girls had everything going for them recruitmentwise--the full package, you might say--I think it could have had different effects on different sororities and it seemed to depend on the reaction of the girl who rushed them. If they commented on the honors program favorably, those sororities kept the girls and those who seemed to be expressing doubts that the girls could handle it cut them. Oddly enough, the group with the highest GPA cut them.
The same groups kept and cut both. Each girl pledged a sorority she loved. However, I don't think that any of us dreamed that sororities might see Bell as a negative in recruitment. I remembered all that years later as we went to the Honor Program graduation dinner and they called out my daughter's college honors-- Phi Kappa Phi, ODK, Order of Omega, Sigma Tau Delta, cum laude--I thought, "Okay, other sororities, see what you lost."
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