Maximizing your options

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Originally Posted by pibetaphi2013

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe schools with guaranteed placement guarantee everyone who does everything you listed- and makes it to pref night- a bid.

In other words- even at those schools- you could be dropped from everywhere before pref and then you wouldn't receive a bid.

Right, that's why I said attend all parties to which you are invited. There is always the possibility that you won't be invited to ANY parties at some point.

Originally Posted by Katmandu

I also think that a lot of people say "maximize your options" when they mean sticking with recruitment through the pref parties, since some women claim to have been cut from rush when they actually have dropped out prior to pref with one or more viable options still possible. Yes, it hurts to be cut by your favorite chapters before pref, but as we all know, opinions change, and sometimes they change a lot after pref night. A sorority that seemed just "ok" the day or two before can suddenly become "the one". Some chapters just don't shine in the hectic early rounds.

Yep.

You don't know how many times a PNM has come here bemoaning "being cut from recruitment" but upon further questioning says "Well I had 2 houses left for Pref but I felt like I didn't fit in them so I dropped out." Not the same thing.

I get that it's your recruitment and it's up to you to do what you want. However, at many of the competitive schools that GC PNMs come from, withdrawing right before Pref pretty much means you aren't going to be Greek at all EVER (since your chances as a re-rushing sophomore are slim). I wish that a lot more PNMs at these schools would realize that.


Something else I wish PNMs thought about:

I also think that if you're at a school with chapters of at least 60-70+ or so women (random reasonably large number), chances are that you probably do "fit in" better with those 2 chapters you don't like than you think. There are too many different people for you to really say that you don't fit with either of them. You're bound to find some girls who are like you.

I could MAYBE buy the "don't fit" argument if your school has like 2 sororities and each of them has like 20 people (whom you know personally because your school has deferred recruitment). But if you're at somewhere like IU, UGA, etc. there are too many women in one chapter to really make an accurate statement about your "fit."

This seems like a ramble but I swear it made sense in my head. lol.