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You most likely are an amazing person and at SMU most of the cuts during rush aren’t because they don’t like you, but mostly because you didn’t have an advocate in the house already. You have to try and think with around 50-60 spots per pledge class even if every girl already in the sorority has one girl they love and want to join, they still have to cut half of those already beloved girls purely because there is not enough room. So next year you can do a couple of things. I’m now a senior and the house I wanted freshman year dropped me on pref, so I dropped out of rush as did my roommate. We both spent the rest of freshman year and beginning of sophomore year hanging out with our friends who were in sororities and just authentically meeting their sisters and making friends. We both rerushed as sophomores and she ended up getting in our friends house when I didn’t. That being said I’m still friends with all of them and the behind the scenes of rush is crazier than freshman think. For example a house might love 20 sophomores, but if they can only take 10, hard cuts have to be made.The easiest cut is by GPA so make sure you have yours as high as possible. That being said I had one house left in rush that I really didn’t think I fit in with, but decided to give it a shot since I didn’t have anything to loose. I’ve ended up having a great experience and now only wished I had joined sooner. No sorority is perfect and from my experience a sorority is honestly what you make of it. For example, I go out a lot more than most of my sisters, but we live in the heart of Dallas so when there’s not a mixer I just grab some other friends and go to Uptown. But it’s nice that when I need a study buddy I always have a sorority sister who wants to help, and more importantly girls who I can hang out and feel comfortable with when alcohol isn’t involved. Lastly, at a school like SMU when you see everyone participating in homecoming and going to formals, not being in a sorority really sucks. So I say rerush next year and give it a shot, it never hurts in life to try. Also no, very few people transfer out of SMU, and the ones that do leave for more important reasons then not getting their preferred house in rush. Don’t let the troll scare you.