How are bigs and littles assigned?

[KKGal]

Hi, all!

My sorority does 'mutual selection' for big/little assignments. Bigs pref 3 littles and littles pref 3 bigs. Our VP-Membership does the best she can to match up bigs and littles.

I was under the impression that if a potential big and a potential little chose each other as first choices that they would be automatically paired.

A new member of my sorority (who joined only because I encouraged her to do so) talked about prefs before filling them out and decided to pref each other.

I was just notified that I was matched with my second choice instead (of course, I love that girl, too!). But I am confused by the big/little selection process. Shouldn't girls who mutually pref each other be paired?

My new member friend sent me a text today saying 'I hope we're matched as big/little!" I feel bad because I don't want her to be disappointed at Big/Lil Rev tomorrow.

What are your thoughts/experiences? I never understood how the selection works (and this is my second little)!