[ellebud]

As an alum of SC with a daughter who is in a house I would like to make a few comments. As I noted upfront (save for the new info that there may, in fact be a colony in a few years) it seemed very unlikely that a new house would come on the row with one girl's say so. I also said that the OP was wanted in the house where she received a bid, despite her misgivings about being wanted for her, not as a number.

What many people outside SC do not realize is that our recruitment is a very different animal. We are as competitive as the SEC (well, almost) but our girls are not generally rooted in Greek traditions. It is HIGHLY likely that 50 % of our pnms are non Greek. As I have stated, we do not have a network that gives pnms the 411 on recruitment. Many girls are really out of the loop. My older daughter LISTENED to her rho chi (and the official panhellenic line) about going to class. It was ok...provided you gave a copy of your schedule blah blah.....No, it wasn't ok. She was summarily dropped from all the houses that she would have seen on night one. It was no a coincidence. Had she known that I know now, she would have had a far better outcome. The whole Row knew my daughter as the girl who went to class rather than recruitment.

My second benefitted greatly from the information that I garnered from GC. Yet, she wasn't clear about ranking houses and what it meant. I told her, her rho chi gave her different information. I, thanks to you, was correct.

I do not know Kaeb or SC2013. They may or may not know each other, although Kaeb said she "knows" SC2013 and says she is nice. But I have no doubt, based on what my daughter mentioned to me, that she might have been given incorrect information.

.........the stuff about not living up to their mottos whatever.....you know the term deflection? The real issue has become what was she told/when and how and the disappointment, and to that I can address the issue. She probably didn't know.