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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
[B]..... or......
there could be a reason we don't know.
Maybe she says her grades are fantastic, but really they're only so-so.
Maybe she had a bad reputation in her hometown.
Maybe she was nasty to somebody's boyfriend.
Co-sign. Greeklife wasn't that large at my school so pretty much everyone was initially given a bid that was in good-standing. However, there are reasons that girls are cut, it happened rarely in my org, in most cases, after the new member process started and we found out some negative stuff about the girl. I do remember more than one instance though where we were forewarned about girls we gave bids to initially about a mix of negative stuff. Some we went with, some we didn't and found out later the hard way we should have listened to the warnings. As we all know, it is difficult to just act on "rumors". I do have lots of friends though who went to schools where they were only able to have new member classes of like 5 or 6 girls because their organization was so large so it makes it really really hard to pick
when you have 10x that rushing. I am sure your friend is a great girl who can be an asset to any organization. While it is hard not to take the cutting personally, I would encourage her to rush again next semester. In the meantime, it will also give her more of an opportunity to hang out with and get to know the girls she would eventually like to be sisters with. Oh another reason girls often didn't get bids back in my day was because they were "illegal" such as first semester freshman, or first semester transfers. Some organizations pledged illegally we all know, but it is a rather large risk to take. Just an aside, even though I know this isn't the case with your friend. This happened to me when I initially rushed another national. My friend got cut because she was a freshman.
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