to the 175+ girls who dropped out of recruitment

Most of sorority PCs 1-6 are predetermined by a number of factors. Many of these have been documented on this post. 360 PMNs will cakewalk through recruitment to their family's legacy Chapter. Leaving 240 to fight for the very few true openings in sororities 1-6.

After that the University 50% cut in tuition and housing refund trap kicks in. Then Panhellenic puts on the COB Pressure to join its least socially active sororities 7 & 8. Those sororities have the same sisterhood demands, requirements and financial obligations. They just socialize with bottom tier fraternities and the Greenville Ave. Club scene. 200 classy, top tier 18 year old freshmen ladies caught in a trap to be pressured into sororities they are Not Interested In.

These 200 Newly GDIs need to speak up and express their dissatisfaction with SMU's Greek Recruitment. More needs to be done for this large tuition and housing paying group.

Honestly, I am a freshman who went through rush and chose to drop out after only getting called back to one house on Sisterhood Day. I did not drop out because of the “status” of that house, I dropped out because each time I went to that house I had horrible conversations with the girls there and did not connect with anyone I spoke with. I will be transferring to another school come next Fall, but not just because I “didn’t get the bid I wanted”. If girls chose to come to SMU simply to be in a sorority- that was a dumb decision on their part. At the end of first semester I was seriously considering transferring and waiting until the Fall to rush at my new school. I decided to go through with rush at SMU because if it had gone well I could have made tons of new friends and maybe it would have given me a reason to stay. It didn’t, and along witj other major problems I have with this University, I have chosen to transfer. That being said, I am staying until the end of the semester because my mom already paid tuition (getting only 90% of tuition back is still losing $7,200 dollars) and it’s ONLY THREE MONTHS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. These girls are so spoiled and entitled to withdrawl from the university the second they get cur by the house they wanted. What’s shocking to me is that their parents stand by them through it. SMU is a good SCHOOL- and people shouldn’t jeopardize their education by dropping out of college or even taking a semester off just because they didn’t get a stupid bid.

Spring 2018 recruitment was a FAILURE due to over 200+ ladies being cut or dropping out. The numerous cover up posts above are from the current Panhellenic Committee Members wanting to spin away from their most disappointing year.

SMU and Panhellenic must be truthful to next years recruitment class. There are @60 PC openings in each one of the 8 sororities. The top six sororities with their 360 pledges will enjoy a thriving social life. These six will give bids to their pre-determined group of legacy pledges. The small remainder of openings will be fought over by a ratio of 20 to 1.

The remaining @250 in recruitment will be corralled into sororities 7 & 8 or will drop out. As discussed earlier, actives in these two sororities admit their disappointment with their limited social options. GDIs will gather and discuss improvements for their future at SMU with more posts in the future.

At SMU, if you want to be in a sorority, you have to select from what is available to you. The hard fact is that the people getting bids to what is perceived as "better" sororities are people with deep SMU connections (multiple legacies and multiple generations of SMU alums). And even those people have their choices limited by those family connections. In other words, there very few people who get their pick of all eight sororities. And it not unusual for girls to join sororities that they actually hate -- but do so only because of family pressure.

In the big picture, there is very little practical difference among the eight sororities on campus. Keep in mind that the ones you call 7 & 8 would be top anywhere else. Everyone knows that family connections is a big factor at SMU on who gets into whatever. And this does limit the choices available to everyone else. The reality is that, if you want to join a sorority at SMU, join one that you can get in. You'll have just a much fun -- maybe even more.

I am a mom of a daughter in a “top tier “ sorority. My daughter had ZERO connections at SMU, no alums in our family. My daughter is out going and can talk to anyone. She met lots of girls in 2 of the top 3 houses. You have to put yourself out there
I also agree that ALL of the houses are great, go with your heart, you will make life long friends. If you didn’t get what you wanted, try again next year. If you still don’t get what you want, all is not lost. My daughter had friends who did not get bids for various reasons and they still went to parties and enjoyed their time at SMU!

Just got a call from my High School friend who is now an active in her top tier UT sorority. We are both attended highly esteemed private college preparatory schools and are from upper class Texas families. UT had their recruitment BEFORE classes began in the Fall. She knew the recruitment results and registered last Fall as a first semester freshman with confidence as a top tier sorority pledge. She was initiated last December and is laser focused on her major, sorority life as an active and pursuing her future husband at her sorority's numerous fraternity mixers.

Conversely, I paid 4 times as much on tuition to attend SMU. Began the lengthy recruitment last Fall that lingered into the Spring semester. Received great encouragement and was lead-on by two top tier sororities of my pending bid to their sorority. Just to be cut late and only offered prefs by sororities 7 and 8. Both were not a fit for me.

I now realize, best case scenario is to skip Fall rush and go through Spring recruitment again to try to land a spot in the sororities that interest me. Meaning I will be a Junior before I am an active in one of these sororities. While my High School friend would have been an active for 1 1/2 years.

Realistically, as a Sophomore I will be cut again by the top 6 sororities and will receive the same bids from 7 and 8. It will then be too late to transfer to another university without losing a semester of credits.

So I need to cut my loses and transfer to UT this summer. I will need to take 3 -6 hours of summer school to make up for non-transferable credit hours then go through UT recruitment in August. A brutal schedule of non-stop classes for the next 12 months just to catch up with my UT friend. Otherwise, stay at SMU as a GDI social outcast paying 4 times the tuition as my UT friend.

There are over 200 ladies in this predicament this semester at SMU. Yes, Panhellenic snobs, your recruitment was a historic FAILURE.

^^^^^ This said it ALL! And beautifully at that.

Like the mom above, my daughter (an out of state student with NO smu connections) also pledged one of the so called best houses her freshman year, so local influence really isn't a magic wand. I know she had many friends that year who chose to drop and rerush the next year. These students all got bids as sophomores (and the ones they wanted) because they had another year to strengthen friendships and get their grades to even better levels. One girl did transfer the next year, but she was a promiscuous drunken trainwreck, and nailed her own coffin shut.
A GPA high enough to go through recruitment does not meet the standards for most individual chapters.
Staging a protest will probably guarantee independence, but getting more involved and studying hard is more likely to guarantee positive results.

did not read lol

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