sorority questions

The best advice you can be given: get to know sorority girls first semester (talk to older girls in your classes, try to make impression) and you’ll be fine. They can also give you advice (they can help you find Rec letter writers if that’s a concern of yours)
There’s going to be one poster who will comment and say you have no shot except for in sororities “7&8” but they’re a great sisterhood too! There are amazing girls (and not so amazing girls) in EVERY single sorority. Just get to know girls in different sororities and go through rush with an open mind!
If you have a great personality and if girls think you’ll be a good fit for the sorority, you’ll get in. Greek life is fun NOT scary.

@Go for it has given you great advice. Recruitment can be viewed as starting the moment you set foot on campus, so just keep in mind that the chapter members are looking you over just like you are looking at them all during your first semester. And please do ignore that troll who talks about corralling and full disclosure and sororities 1-5 or whatever. You'll be fine.

SMU Sorority Chapters 1-6 require rec letters and you MUST BE A LEGACY, closely connected / related to one. Otherwise you must be one of the extremely rich, powerful and famous of your recruitment class.

If not, be prepared to be corralled into financially and socially deficient sorority 7 & 8. No matter how good your grades or rec letters make you appear.

Due to quotas, each sorority can accept @ 60 members during the Spring recruitment. 360 mainly SMU Legacies will receive bids from these top 6 sororities and will experience the privileged classic SMU Greek Life.

The 2018 recruitment resulted in Legacies filling 85%+ of sororities 1 - 6 Pledge Classes. Leaving less than 10 actual openings in these sororities for sophomore transfers and non-legacy freshmen. These actual results need to be disclosed in advance to the 2019 recruitment class.

The vast majority of SMU's non-legacy Freshmen ladies will be corralled into a deficient sorority or drop and become a GDI for the Spring. Over 200 Freshman ladies dropped out of 2018 recruitment for these reasons.

What does this even mean please?... “Financially and socially deficient 7 and 8”

Also sororities aren’t 85% legacies they’re maybe 30% she’s just pulling that out of her ass cuz she didn’t get what she wanted

I got cut from both of my legacies during recruitment and still ended up in a house that I love. Don't listen to the girl who is upset that she didn't get the bid that she wanted.

Over 200 2018 Freshmen Ladies have transferred away from SMU due to its' rigged Legacy-Filled 2018 recruitment. Relying on SMU and Panhellenic made recruitment a 2 semester almost $100,000 hellacious ordeal. That will take up to a year of continuous classes at another university to fully recover.

Most of us are now attending summer sessions at our new university to catch up for the lost credits that did not transfer. We will have to go through recruitment again and pledgeship as a sophomore at our new university. Then continue into summer session in 2019 to catch up on the remaining lost credits in order to graduate on time with our peers. Yes, we are tired of SMUs Panhellenic rigged predetermined recruitment then their cover up spins.

I'm sorry the troll is a heartbroken mom, and while I do feel for her and her daughter, it's quite insulting to keep referring to her self-proclaimed "Numbers 7 & 8" as being sub-standard sororities. Stop it already, It's inhumane to talk about chapters in this manner.

So if the #7 (according to the troll) house is nothing but a bunch of social misfits, how come so many cheerleaders, pom squad members, and the reigning homecoming queen are in AXO? Could it be, I don't know, there are great women in every sorority? Also, stop calling the ones who dropped "GDIs." That term is used for people who are proud to be non-Greek, not wannabees. A GDI would never dream of transferring schools just because she didn't get a bid. And while we are at it, stop saying you wasted $100,000. SMU is expensive, but not that expensive. It's closer to $75,000, or less if you got a scholarship which all of the better students do.

The above response posts are obviously from Panhellenic and sorority members 7&8. After reading these factual posts from ladies brutalized during the 2018 recruitment, I agree and sympathize with them.

Panhellenic again allowed legacies to engulf the Pledge Classes of sororities 1-6. Leaving well over 200 freshman ladies paying over $75,000 a year to accept a bid from a sorority they were not interested in or be a GDI. Most of these 200 ladies transferred to other universities. SMU must make changes to its recruitment or face another disastrous failure in 2019.