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Originally Posted by pagie14

So before coming on this website, I wasn't TOO concerned about not getting a bid. I mean, I have an okay GPA (Approx 4.3, weighted on a 4.0 scale). I'm not socially inept, and I'm generally pretty good at first impressions. I'm confident with how I look(most of the time... We all have those days!). I've been involved with theater for much of my life and I've been playing volleyball throughout all of high school. I've earned a few national awards for merit. I'll have almost 200 community service hours by the time I graduate, although I don't think this is as good as it should be. I went to a school with only like, 800 people in the entire high school. Still, I thought I was okay...

Then, I come on here and see all these people saying "Oh, all of the homecoming queen cheerleaders with 5.0 GPAs are going to get rejected because all of the girls rushing are like this!"
Um... What? Well that could be an issue.

I understand the kind of girl sorority life attracts, but does that mean that any girl who wasn't number one in her class, head cheerleader and prom queen extraordinaire won't get a bid? I may not be these things, and I wasn't the most popular girl in my high school, but I was never unpopular or teased for anything. I'm friendly and I'm not shy, definitely not when it comes to first meeting someone. I believe I'm pretty. But I wasn't prom queen, and I didn't really aspire to be- I want to be a part of a sorority because of all the other stuff, not because I want to be in some kind of royal standing with the rest of the school.

I plan to go to a large SEC school. My cousin, who rushed at another school where Greek Life is important, said she was confident I'd get a bid. But this has me worried! I just want to be a part of this- Will my lack of stereotypical traits that apparently 'every other girl' has be my downfall? Please help

((Oh, a big thing is that I didn't hold a lot of leadership positions in my main extracurriculars, but a lot of the reason for that is because I've had jobs both this year and last year, which are the two main years of holding office in most clubs and such! Will this be a huge issue?))

We can't tell anyone for SURE whether they will get a bid.

However, every single girl in a large SEC Greek system isn't a Homecoming Queen.

Also, quota is set by the number of women in recruitment, so there is no such thing as "too many girls rushing." That's a myth.

I will say though, that not every girl is going to get a bid to her number 1 choice, though. Some get their second or third. So it helps if you are open-minded. The most disappointed women are typically the ones going in ONLY WANTING two or three specific chapters. Then when they are cut from them, they are upset.

All of that to say, good luck!