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Originally posted by BrownEyedGirl
The University of South Carolina uses guaranteed placement, to my understanding. If a PNM attends two pref parties and plays the game (ie, ranks both and does not "suicide"), she is guaranteed a bid. CarolinaDG or one of the lovely KKG advisors at USC may be able to help clarify this though...
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Yes, this is true. Unless you are cut before pref night, you are guaranteed a bid to one of the sororities you pref. If you pref only one, you'll go that sorority--except in suiciding! If you are only invited to one, you'll go that sorority. If you are invited to two and decide that you are going to suicide-choose only one of the two sororities-then you are not guaranteed a bid.
This is VERY controversial, and I'll explain why.
It's kind of hard to explain, but I'll try. Let's say I preffed Delta Gamma and ABC sorority (I won't tell who else I preffed). I picked Delta Gamma as number one, and ABC sorority as number 2. If Delta Gamma put me on their A list and ABC put me on their A list, I get Delta Gamma. If Delta Gamma put me on their B list and sorority ABC put me on their A list, I get sorority ABC. If Delta Gamma put me on their B list and sorority ABC put me on their B list, I would go Delta Gamma. What happens then is this: If Delta Gamma puts 50 girls (quota when I rushed) on their A list, and all 50 girls put Delta Gamma as number 1, they meet quota. Then, lets say there are 15 more girls that put Delta Gamma as number 1, and Delta Gamma put them on their B list. If whichever sorority that was these girls number 2 put the girls on their B list, they would go Delta Gamma, too, putting Delta Gamma at 15 over quota. Now, let's say that these girls all put sorority ABC as their number 2 (which wouldn't happen, but try to follow). Let's say that ABC ends up with 30 girls... those 15 girls that Delta Gamma took over quota could have gone to ABC, but instead went to Delta Gamma. Also, in 2001 at USC, sororities were used to quota (and pledge classes) being 30, so all the sudden not only did quota jump to 50, but sororities were taking around 60, which was twice the amount of girls that they were used to taking, which is hard to handle. One sorority ended up even pushing initiation back due to the fact that they didn't feel as if their girls knew each other well enough. They had taken 65 girls that year. Hence the controversy.
Now, the good side. Bid guarantees keep the girls spirits up. They say if you play by the rules, you are guaranteed a bid, assuming you don't get cut before pref night. Now, there are girls who are not asked back by any sorority, and this does not apply to them.
You can decide what your opinion is.