Day 4: Preference Day (up to 3 sororites)
Well, it’s finally the end of a long, fun, exhausting, stressful week for the Jayhawk PNMs.
The day didn’t start til 10am, so my absolute morning-hating Sunny was excited to sleep in, at least a little. I got an early text from her though saying that this week has ruined her for sleeping in and she woke up 15 minutes before her alarm went off. One last time the girls met with their Recruitment Counselors to pick up their invites.
Sunny’s final invite list:
Liberty Memorial
Oklahoma Joe’s
Sporting KC
She felt a slight twinge of disappointment at not being invited back to
Westport, but she said she got over that pretty quickly because she remembered how much she had enjoyed herself at Oklahoma Joe’s and Liberty Memorial the first two days. Plus she was very excited to be returning to Sporting KC!
Liberty Memorial – she was preffed by the active who she really connected with during the Open House rounds. The actives shared stories of sisterhood, and Sunny said some of them were kind of sad. She left this house still liking it and would be ok with receiving a bid here.
Oklahoma Joe’s – she was asked here by one of the actives preffing her if she had a fake ID! Sunny was kind of shocked and a little surprised that she was asked this, especially during pref rounds. She said that their pref ceremony was more serious and she heard some more kind of sad stories. She left this house thinking that she probably did not want to accept a bid here.
Sporting KC – Sunny is absolutely in love with the girls in this house. She was preffed by a girl she hadn’t met yet, and the active told her she was so excited to meet her at last. She received an envelope with notes written to her by all the girls she had met throughout the week and was really touched. Sunny said the sisterhood stories were funny and she really feels like this is the place she is meant to be.
At the end of the day, she ranked:
1.
Sporting KC
2.
Liberty Memorial
3.
Oklahoma Joe’s
One thing I should say about my daughter is that I have never seen her get sad during any sad movie (The Notebook? Marley & Me? Seriously, not a damp eye). I think the one time she cried was watching “Hoot” and she had mono at the time so she refuses to believe that was a legitimate cry.
In the end, Sunny just connected more with the upbeat fun mood at Sporting KC. She really looked at the other PNMs at the parties and liked them at each house. I asked her why she put Oklahoma Joe’s on her pref rankings after she relayed the entirety of that conversation. She said that she really wanted to maximize her options, and she HAD liked them up to that point, so she decided to go ahead and rank them.
Sunny’s Roommate ended up ranking only
Westport and
Swope Park though she visited 3 houses, and Suitemate 2 suicided
The Fountains after visiting 3 houses as well. I really hope both girls end up with bids tomorrow. They are both real sweethearts. Suitemate 1 dropped out this morning. Sunny said she wasn’t too broken hearted about it though.
Random notes about Day 4:
I get the feeling that the placement rate at KU is going to end up being 60-70%. Even though this was the largest recruitment number ever (956 PNMs), Sunny said a LOT of girls dropped out during the week as well as some girls being released completely. I don’t really have anything else to add, other than once again, I’m so glad Sunny was as open-minded as she was throughout the week.
Bids are opened tomorrow at 245pm!
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