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Bid Day was more than a week ago. These girls have moved on unlike you.

We are entrapped here for the semester.
We are then facing a labor-intensive university transfer.
We are then facing 2 summers of classes to replace lost non-transferring college credits.
-0r, we are facing having to be a 5th year senior academically.
We are then having to go through recruitment and pledge ship as a sophomore at our new university.
Our parents paid $100 grand for our freshmen year at SMU.
Where we earned 30 credit hours, however only 21 are transferable.
Now, we are having to pay for 2 additional summer sessions or an additional semester of university classes.

Yes, we are ready to move-on from the SMU entitled, EVIL, non-empathetic Panhellenic. Who could not care less about the 300 Newly Shocked GDIs.

EVIL WITCHES

Your ongoing negative postings of the past three years have not, and will not, be a force for change or betterment of SMU recruitment, but you are slowly killing yourself because you can't let it go. "Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

I'm also a mom with a daughter at SMU who rushed 2 years ago and joined a house. The recruitment process for over 50% of the girls is extremely disappointing. There are over 650 girls who rush each year and only 55 to 60 spots for each house.

If you do the math, that leaves 200 PLUS GIRLS PNMs without a spot. This is the reality year after year. The argument has always been that all the houses need to meet quota before they will allow larger pledge classes. That Will Never Happen at SMU due to the perceived stigma surrounding certain sororities on campus.

I have encouraged ("SMU Panhellenic to at least be Forthcoming") with the odds of getting into a house. They need to be honest at the initial informational meetings regarding the real numbers so the PNM's can enter the process with all the facts.

It's really a shame they don't add a couple more sorority houses. There is certainly interest there and would give more girls the opportunity to be in a house and have that experience in college. It's easy to say the process wasn't so bad if your daughter got into one of her 1st, 2nd or 3rd choices but for over half of the girls who rush, they don't have that outcome unfortunately. It's especially disheartening at SMU where much of the social life revolves around the greek system.

oh no 2 summers of classes or a fifth year? pledgeship as a sophomore? that sounds like a you problem. cry about it some more. suck it up

It makes me sad seeing all 300 of you eating separately in the cafeteria, not talking to anyone, just staring blankly into the distance like shell-shocked soldiers back from war. Here is an idea--maybe you can grab a few other newly shocked GDIs and go do something fun together instead of all sitting alone in your rooms watching TV. Or I don't know, maybe watch TV together. Or maybe go out. Go shopping or get some ice cream or go to a party or join a club.

If you go to a pref you're on that bid list somewhere. Doesn't mean you'll match to your first choice but no one gets dropped at pref; it's a choice to suicide and take your chances. The sororities do the choosing. You aren't guaranteed the internship of your choice or the date of your choice either - they do the choosing too. Grow up.

Yes, in your wild-ass improbable scenario, they would all get bids to that one house, even though it would put them way, way over Quota. If 200 girls got dropped by all but one house and attended pref there and put them on their cards then yes, ALL 200 WOULD GET BIDS THERE. This is because of Quota Plus, which guarantees a bid to every single PNM who does not SIP, even when it puts a house over Quota. But RFM is designed to prevent such a skewed distribution in the first place so that extreme would never happen. You are making things up to fit your own false narrative. You either have no understanding of the NPC process whatsoever or you are so far up your own ass that the facts don't matter.

Imagine the amazing new member class that would form if this would happen!

The language in her posts makes me think English is not her first language. They are full of weird phrasing and sentence structure. And what's up with all the random capitalization?