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Too bad

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Angry Mom, there is nothing "cavalier" about the selection process. There is a lot of work that goes into membership selection that non-members never see or understand. The sororities put in an enormous amount of time over the late summer and fall into poring over recruitment applications and trying to learn something about each and every PNM who will walk through their doors, even to the point that they can recognize them and pair each of them with an active they have something in common with. But the very first thing that is reviewed is GPA, which is how the vast amounts of the first round cuts are made. Yes, these girls were going to be cut anyway on this alone because each house has a GPA requirement, and unless a PNM has something else super special and desirable about them that makes up for their GPA, they are the first to go. It doesn't mean that their GPA's are necessarily bad, it's just that sorority recruitment, at any school, is a far more competitive pool than in high school. With so very many girls going through, everyone has a high GPA, everyone was student body president, everyone was a cheerleader, everyone was captain of the team, everyone etc. Even legacies don't get much of an extra shot nowadays and get cut all the time. We get it, your daughter is high quality, but so is every other girl. But if she still had a house or two left before pref and she decided to drop, then right back at you - how did she size up an entire house full of women, who clearly wanted her back, and decide she couldn't make a connection with anyone in that whole house? There are many, many PNM's who do give those sororities a chance and end up falling in love with their houses, but people don't want to hear those stories, especially on here. Once again, if all those high quality girls who decided to drop would have stayed the course and joined where they were invited, they could have populated some high quality new member classes and found an amazing home that they weren't initially expecting - happens more often then not.