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Suiciding gives you no advantage and the only way a chapter knows if you suicided them is if you tell them or someone on the PHA recruitment team tells them for some reason.

If Alpha Phi wants you, you would get into their chapter regardless of whether or not you suicided them. In fact, suiciding puts you at a slight disadvantage because you are not eligible for 'quota-plus' if you don't maximize your options.

The only reason to suicide is if you know for a fact you would decline a bid if it was offered to you (because you're taking someone else's spot that wanted that bid). But that being said, it's better to trust the system and be open to all houses during pref round because you may love them later on, even if you didn't like the sorority you initially got your bid from.

Good luck with Alpha Phi (Not in that chapter, but the girls I know in it are great), but definitely try to be a bit more open in case you don't get in. I promise that you can find great friends and have terrific experiences in any chapter here.

Okay. Seriously stop. For one you don't even know if you're going to make it to the next round. So stop all of this suiciding talk. It's sickening. Then you have to think, would you want to risk suiciding and not getting a bid and therefore not being Greek? If the answer is yes, then screw you. You should consider yourself lucky that any chapter on this campus wants you, because we don't have to have you. There are girls who get dropped form every house. Period. And if you are willing to not be Greek because you suicided, then clearly you didn't have the true values to be Greek in the first place. I kept my options open. I hated the house I got my bid from. I wanted a different house at the end of pref round. But I wanted to be Greek enough to stick it out. And guess what, I now have come to love my house and not care for the other one. You meet these girls for all of 3 hours, and thus far have met them for total of 80mins if you did fall preview, you know nothing. But wait, they are nice and sweet and funny. And they like the things you like, right? They get you? Well that's because we specifically paired a girl with similar interests to you. And we have to be nice and sweet, we have to listen to you. But once bid day happens, we do you think most of them want to hear about your hs sports? No. I did not have more than 1 conversation with any of the girls who talked to me in my house. And that's the truth for most. There going to be your bffs! Probs not. End rant

So if you single preference and receive a bid, then no one would know.

If you do not receive a bid to the house you single preference, then you are eligible for a snap bid (for a chapter to call and offer you a bid on bid day if they have room in their pledge class). The snap bid list will state whether a girl did not receive a bid originally because they withdrew from recruitment, and what round, or if they single preferenced. It would not be known what house you put down, but it could hurt your chances as chapters would then know that you were not giving everyone a fair chance, or didn't put them down after preference.

In addition, last year, there were women who did not receive any bid because they single preferenced. We had one girl last year who "suicided" us, and did not receive a bid, even though there was still room in our pledge class. She later joined through the informal recruitment process, thus how we learned that this happens.