[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

Kelly, I'm not attacking you, and I don't understand why you feel the need to be so defensive.

You're right, we will have to agree to disagree -- on this one, I'm with GP -- I had no idea what I was doing at 18 years old. I'm really glad you were not overwhelmed, scared, or confused when you started college, and even more glad your 33,000+ kids weren't, but *I* certainly was, and I see a lot of that on GC -- women who, if just given their choice of sororities, would have picked the one they THOUGHT they matched with. And many of those women ended up with a different house and now, from the other side, feel like they wouldn't have fit in with their original choice.

And those are just the ones we hear from. GC is pretty much only people who identify strongly with their GLO affiliation, so we don't see the girls who wanted ABC because it was the "top" house on campus, rushed it hard, got it -- and hated it. And would have been much happier at DEF, and know that now.

I'm not saying freshmen can't make their own decisions. I'm saying when we use the mutual selection process (and utilize Rho Chis as counselors with both the best interests of sororities on campus AND the best interests of the PNMs, who they've gotten to know) EVERYONE benefits.