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Originally Posted by arrowlady
I thought that guaranteed placement was only if you had a full schedule of 3 houses and put all 3 houses on your card? I am totally unfamiliar with UT's rules so I am just going off of what I have seen/heard at other campuses girls with only one pref party left not getting a house.
This gets me to thinking wouldn't it be nice if all the campuses followed the same quidelines...
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It doesn't matter how many Pref parties you are invited to with guaranteed placement. As long as you attend all the parties you are invited to and list them all, you will receive a bid to one, even if you only had one invite. If you fail to list any chapter you visited at preference or fail to attend a party you're invited to, there's no guaranteed replacement. It is my experience that at these large competitive schools that offer guaranteed placement, this processs is explained over and over again. The PNMs simply don't believe they're not going to get a bid from the chapter they want. So they either hear "computer error blah blah" or create a legend to explain the lack of a bid.
Ladybugmom, you are posting a tale based on a second hand story that was told to you. That's gossip and not the way things really happened no matter what the PNM and her family were told or believe and subsequently told you. PNMs have enough things to worry about without having to be concerned with incorrect tales of being dropped by a computer system. Surely you can understand that?
Like I said before, the system worked exactly the way it was supposed to.