Everyone gets a bid?

I would say that since you called your schools office of greek life, and that is the advice that most people give around here for people with questions specific to their school I would say that it's true for you school. Had you come in here and ask if you were guaranteed a bid at least a few people would respond with "call your school's office of greek life and ask them." Not to say that everyone who works for a university knows exactly what they're talking about, but there is a pretty good chance the girls you talked to was telling the truth.

Originally Posted by jessicaelaine

I would say that since you called your schools office of greek life, and that is the advice that most people give around here for people with questions specific to their school I would say that it's true for you school. Had you come in here and ask if you were guaranteed a bid at least a few people would respond with "call your school's office of greek life and ask them." Not to say that everyone who works for a university knows exactly what they're talking about, but there is a pretty good chance the girls you talked to was telling the truth.

Not saying this is the case here, but we've seen on more than one occasion Greek Life offices across the country employing people who have absolutely no clue as to what's going on.

Originally Posted by OTW

Not saying this is the case here, but we've seen on more than one occasion Greek Life offices across the country employing people who have absolutely no clue as to what's going on.

Well, my school doesn't even have an office of greek life. We're like anarchists. But you have to admit that a lot of people tell girls asking questions to call theirs and ask. I wouldn't say either way if what she was told was true. I have no way of knowing.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by jessicaelaine

I would say that since you called your schools office of greek life, and that is the advice that most people give around here for people with questions specific to their school I would say that it's true for you school. Had you come in here and ask if you were guaranteed a bid at least a few people would respond with "call your school's office of greek life and ask them." Not to say that everyone who works for a university knows exactly what they're talking about, but there is a pretty good chance the girls you talked to was telling the truth.

There are a HANDFUL of schools who have enacted policies where EVERY PNM IS REQUIRED to get a bid in the end to one of the sororities (I can think of Tufts and Creighton who do). Other than those, no there are no guarantees.

Anyone who tells a PNM that they're GUARANTEED to get a bid is probably very misinformed about the process, because recruitment is a mutual selection process and nothing about that is guaranteed.

[Roraem]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Anyone who tells a PNM that is probably very misinformed about the process, because recruitment is a mutual selection process and nothing about that is guaranteed.

I completely agree. What would be the point in recruitment if the sororities had no say in who joined? I have just never heard of entire schools where all GLO's were required to hand out bids to everyone who came through... though I have heard of specific chapters doing that. Again, I agree that the odds of there being a clueless Greek Life Office worker is far more likely than a school where everyone gets bids. That's why i'm glad the majority of our Greek staff are actually Greek!