I do sort of agree with DeltaBeta here. What bothers me about this story is that there is a lot of "talk" amongst people, but no solid evidence to back up the talk. PL, you say the system screwed you, but how did that happen? The system didn't screw you, but the sororities where you wanted to go had to make the cuts accordingly. Yes, many sororities would love to take a whole lot more girls than quota allows, but being a member of the Panhellenic means that you follow the formal recruitment rules and the way that it works. Panhellenic and its rules are in place so that all sororities are on as equal footing as possible. And by having this system that may help smaller sororities catch up to the larger groups is not a screw job to PNMs.
As for the computer bid matching, every single time that I've used it and there was a problem, it was human error. Women in sororities and PNMs have to fill out their scantrons carefully and make sure that everything is perfect. Human error is nearly ALWAYS the problem.
Pinklady, it sounds to me, and I could be wrong, that you had in your mind the groups you wanted going in, which while I don't agree with that school of thought, is fine to do. But if that plan didn't work out, blaming the system that sororities have been using for many many years to have fair and equal recruitment for all sororities isn't really fair. I hope that either through COB or snap bids or whatever method necessary, you find yourself a home at Michigan. It sucks to have so many sororities on a campus and not be able to find your place, but I think that it's out there for the taking if you look at it
