dropped from top house, snap bid?
by: pnmIm a pnm that was dropped from the houses I had remaining that I loved today. I asked my rho gamma about snap bids and she sad that absolutely does not happen at smu, yet i’ve heard so many rumors about. Do snap bids happen here?
#11 by: Just wondering
Should I not rush as a sophomore if once cut always cut? I’m one of the PNM’s that ended up with my last house on my list and I dropped because it truly wasn’t a good fit for me
It would help if someone could say what you’re really looking for.
I had a very full resume and a successful 1st semester and my rush didn’t match my outcome. Not willing to give up though!
And do that many girls really leave?
Commentby: ^Jan 30, 2019 8:33:19 PM
This narrative makes it seem like there is some predetermined number of 'spots' available in each house before rush starts. This is not how it works. Quota is not determined until after the pref round and is based on the total number of pnm's turning in MRABA cards. And if every pnm at pref in a house they think they don't fit in would just look around at the other pnm's there, they would see an amazing group of beautiful, fun, sweet, smart women who would make up that new member class if they would just give that house a chance. Listen to @Friends: "I’ve ended up having a great experience and now only wished I had joined sooner. No sorority is perfect and from my experience a sorority is honestly what you make of it."
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#12 by: Previous Post
There were @700 PNM ladies going through Rush this month. Each of the 8 sororities had @60 open membership openings, 480 total. Most of the PNMs wanted to join one of the top 5 sororities, 300 total openings.
There are 220 to 400 disappointed, depressed freshmen PNMs tonight.
SMU must offer better social life options if they want almost $100,000 per year in total costs each year. Relying almost exclusively on Greek Life for a campus social life only serves those Entitled, Privileged 300 Legacy ladies that join their sister's, mommies', grand mommies' top 6 sorority each year.
2018 Summer Post
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 $100,000+ a year to accept a bid from a sorority they were not interested in or be a GDI / GEED. Most of these 200 ladies transferred to other universities. SMU must make changes to its recruitment or face another disastrous failure in 2019.
#13 by: Friends
While there is no predetermined number of spots the pledge classes most years come to 50-60 girls. I think a better rephrase is if each day for example a house to cut 1/3 of the girls that visited that day every day during recruitment, its a lot of girls that are great that they have to turn away purely because of numbers. Obviously every year and every house is different in terms of the percentages, but this is just to give freshman a general understanding that most cuts aren’t because a house doesn’t like you or thinks you’re not great, but you need multiple girls in the house to be in love with you to get a bid.
#14 by: & again & again
Sorry to hear you are now among the 250+ high quality SMU pnms that will be corralled into bottom-tier sororities. COB is this last option for bottom-tier sororities to capture depressed & delusioned PNMs.
You are sitting in your dorm room in mid-January realizing you will be a member of a socially deficient sorority or a GEED, GDI in a Financially Exorbitant Socially Greek Life Dominated University.
SMU must offer better social life options if they want almost $100,000 in total costs each year. Relying almost exclusively on Greek Life for a campus social life only serves those Spoiled, Entitled, Privileged 300 Legacy ladies that join their sister's, mommies', grand mommies' top 6 sorority each year.
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by: FriendsJan 30, 2019 4:32:16 PM
You most likely are an amazing person and at SMU most of the cuts during rush aren’t because they don’t like you, but mostly because you didn’t have an advocate in the house already. You have to try and think with around 50-60 spots per pledge class even if every girl already in the sorority has one girl they love and want to join, they still have to cut half of those already beloved girls purely because there is not enough room.
So next year you can do a couple of things. I’m now a senior and the house I wanted freshman year dropped me on pref, so I dropped out of rush as did my roommate. We both spent the rest of freshman year and beginning of sophomore year hanging out with our friends who were in sororities and just authentically meeting their sisters and making friends. We both rerushed as sophomores and she ended up getting in our friends house when I didn’t. That being said I’m still friends with all of them and the behind the scenes of rush is crazier than freshman think. For example a house might love 20 sophomores, but if they can only take 10, hard cuts have to be made.The easiest cut is by GPA so make sure you have yours as high as possible.
That being said I had one house left in rush that I really didn’t think I fit in with, but decided to give it a shot since I didn’t have anything to loose. I’ve ended up having a great experience and now only wished I had joined sooner. No sorority is perfect and from my experience a sorority is honestly what you make of it. For example, I go out a lot more than most of my sisters, but we live in the heart of Dallas so when there’s not a mixer I just grab some other friends and go to Uptown. But it’s nice that when I need a study buddy I always have a sorority sister who wants to help, and more importantly girls who I can hang out and feel comfortable with when alcohol isn’t involved. Lastly, at a school like SMU when you see everyone participating in homecoming and going to formals, not being in a sorority really sucks.
So I say rerush next year and give it a shot, it never hurts in life to try.
Also no, very few people transfer out of SMU, and the ones that do leave for more important reasons then not getting their preferred house in rush. Don’t let the troll scare you.
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