selection process

Sorry you didn't get a bid. Get good grades and maybe they'll give you one next year as a sophomore.

A ton of girls didn't "get bids" because they dropped out.

'A ton of girls didn't get bids because they dropped' ...because the majority of houses didn't extend invites past round 1/2 to girls that fit socially with the types of girls in the houses they were dropped from - beautiful, popular, succesful girls from high school that fit with a certain crowd growing up but were not accepted during rush with the same crowd. I think these girls were too self confident to settle with a different house with girls that were so different from them ie lower tier. I give credit to these girls as it speaks volumes in their knowing they will have no problem socially and don't need a house to validate themselves. I think it is too bad for them to not experience a sorority / sisterhood but really give them credit for knowing they don't have to accept a house they don't fit in with just because the ones they fit with rejected them. I really hope recruitment improves at UNC.

I definitely feel for those girls who didn't settle, but wanted to be in a sorority. This years recruitment was a total bust for a lot of fun, gorgeous, smart girls that would've otherwise been accepted if it wasn't all about who you know.

One thing you must learn. Life is all about who you know ;)

How can you know that many people if you just got here? I mean really. Unless you came from Charlotte, Raleigh, or Wilmington, you're not going to know that many girls.

are allowed to invite back "x" number of women based on their "return rate"-a compilation of several years statistics the assess how many invitations are accepted back to a certain round based on the number of invitations that the sorority extended. So the sororities are inviting back the number of women they are allowed to invite per Greek Life. The higher your success rate, the less women, the lower your success rate, the more women you can invite. If all those women had stayed in the process and signed bid cards, they most likely would have received a bid. It is rare that a PNM would attend pref. parties and not receive a bid. More often than not, the PNM does not like the invitations that she has received, and she chooses to drop out rather than try to find common ground with the sororities that did want to get to know her better.