Cut because you're "too good"?

[FuzzieAlum]

I'm seeing it in some current rush threads, but I've seen it before elsewhere too ... PNMs saying that a chapter dismissed them mentally or cut them because the chapter assumed they were "too good" (too popular, too sought after, too something) to be interested in them.

I'm not sure I believe this really happens, although I can see why a PNM would prefer to believe this over simply not being attractive to a chapter. I don't recall my sisters ever saying, "We're not going to go after Susie, because she's obviously too good for us." And honestly, we were a chapter that didn't have the highest return rate on campus, so we *could* have thought that way.

Chapters really aren't all looking for the same thing, once you get beyond minimum grades, good hygiene, the real basics. One chapter may go for cheerleaders but others may think it's a dumb sport & girls who do it are superficial. One chapter was want stellar grades but another may think 4.0s are boring nerds. You see people arguing all the time about what is good style; some people think Paris Hilton is hot and others honestly believe her style is overdone.

I guess I'm wondering, have any of you actually experienced "We're not going after Susie because she's definitely top chapter material and won't like us" - from the sorority end, not as a PNM? Is this just a comforting rushee myth or does it really happen?