[ilovemyglo]

At my school suiciding is actually normal. We always get 2-3 suicides for each house. The rho chis discourage it, dont get me wrong.. but some of those women are wonderful sisters.
We have had sisters that suicided other sororities join us through COB and they have never regretted it!
I personally suicided my prefs. I know I could remove names of sororities from those inviting me, but I also knew I didnt want to be anything but an Alpha Gam. So at the other parties I politely told the women that I thought I had found my home and I didn't think it was with their sisters. None of them were sad for me or mad or upset, they were all genuinely happy that I thought so much of that one chapter. So the next day the only house that invited me back was AGD. I didn't want to spend time at another party and take up space where someone else that WANTED to be there could have been! So, I ended up suiciding my bid card too. The next day it was AGD.
We had a girl join this year that wanted to suicide us but her rho chi was from our BIGGEST rival and told her she had to put down her other pref parties somewhere. When her rho chi showed up the next day the girl told her that if she didn't have a bid for Alpha Gam then to go away (of course she did!!!) but then went on to tell her if she had a bid from XYZ (which was the rho chi's sorority) she would rather her burn it. SO the rho chi threw it on the ground and stamped on it as she walked away. That made for an interesting topic!!!
I don't think that suiciding is for everyone, though!
I was a sophomore when I went through rush, and I pretty much had it narrowed down to two houses when I signed up. One was the popular pretty girl house (in the view of non greeks) and the other was the largest chapter on campus. I ended up not wanting to be a part of them and found my home in AGD only AFTER i visited them. I didn't really know alot about them when I joined.
So in the end I think it works out for everyone except for those rushees who get cross cut. I hope they find homes too!

Oh and 33girl, my house snap bids anyone that we have found to be a suitable sister, including women that suicided other houses and we have a 99% Initiation rate for the past 4 years. Some girls are, (for lack of a better word) really DUMB about sororities until they see them outside of rush!