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Originally Posted by Titchou
Wait a minute, 33Girl. Quite a few SEC schools now have upperclass quota so that's no longer an issue. And as long as you "meet the requirements for membership" (have proper grades, activities, have a rec) and "maximize your options", you will get a bid at an SEC school. Almost every one of them guarantee that now. Yes, I know women who didn't get bids there - and in almost every case, I can tell you why. You can't service the whole football team even if you are valedictorian and get a bid. Not happening. Nor can you think because you are a triple legacy at AAA that it's going to get you in. Competitive? Yes. But some women just don't meet the qualifications even though the little princess may think she does. And since most CPHs will let anyone sign up - with no grade requirement because NPC frowns on that - you know going in some are going to get released for grades on the first day. Fact of life.
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I know what you're saying. But there ARE women who have grades and activities who don't get past the doors of where they really want to be, and what
actually might be a great place for them. And often for them, "a" bid doesn't cut it - they want "the" bid. And they decide they'd rather not be Greek than be the "wrong" Greek. If that wasn't true, every chapter in every SEC school would be at total and take quota every time and chapters would not close at these schools because of low numbers. This end result is no less disheartening than women getting cut at IU because there isn't physical space for them in the house.
We CAN go around and around about it, but IMO, unless the students (and the monetarily involved alumnae) are the ones who lobby for the change, the only way to make it happen is to do it all at once. Pulling the Band-Aid off slowly just increases the numbers of women who remember "the old way." Also, starting what is essentially a new type of system would make it easier for new groups to enter the campus on equal footing.
Which all goes back to my basic point. If a group goes to IU
as things are now, and doesn't have a long term plan in place for being an unhoused group that will be essentially apart from the rest of the sororities and a way to spin that positively...they're nuts.
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