What Alphagamuga said! Because if you're going to force women to go to prefs they never wanted to go to, it's horrible to then penalize them for SIPing. It can also hurt sororities.
I recall a couple of years ago hearing about a sorority that had 2 full pref parties and didn't get one new member from them. Why? Because apparently, no one wanted to be there but was forced by Panhellenic to go as their second pref party. Girls who were in-house legacies or otherwise almost sure things to get a bid elsewhere were sitting there, as I'm told, with gritted teeth just counting the minutes until they could be out. Most of the members were aware of it and were in tears.
Then the next day when the bid lists came out and the sorority had no pledges, they were torn up again because some of them had been so sure that PNMs were there because they really liked them. The girls who told me about this said that of all the girls they knew at that pref, every one SIPed another sorority.
OMG, that's so horrible. How did that group recover?
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The same scenario repeated the next year (even to being packed with girls who were in-house legacies but had no other pref to go to bc the other sororities had cut them for their legacy status)and they had full pref parties again.Once again, they didn't get any pledges in formal rush. That was a couple of years ago and the chapter still exists so they must've picked up some in open rush.
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