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Rush Mom

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Hello SMU Mom, I think you have a good point about clear communication before rush starts. ("Bitter Mom", you are crazy so not dealing with you). There are 8 sororities and pledge classes of about 60 each, so that means 480 spots +/-. If 600 girls rush, it's not too hard to see that not everyone gets a bid, much less the bid they want. My daughter has had her share of disappointments (not making the soccer team, getting cut from dance team, etc) so she went into this understanding that its a competitive process and you might not get your first choice or any bid at all, just like many other things (including applying to college). It sounds like some girls go into the process thinking everyone gets their choice, and when they don't you have some very unhappy girls. The rush process is not transparent, so that is even more frustrating because there's no way to know why a girl didn't get a bid (kind of like college admissions, actually). It's our job as moms to help our daughters go in with realistic expectations, but I agree the rush organizers could also do a better job explaining things up front. Anyhow, the main point of my original post was not to brag (@crazy bitter mom), but to say that rush at SMU is just like rush everywhere else - I have daughters at 2 others schools, and it is pretty much the same at those schools. It's not for the faint of heart, and it's not a perfect process, but SMU sororities do a good job and moms of incoming girls should not freak out because of all the bad posts.