what if you don't get a house

The girl who wrote the tearjerker above has a couple of things very wrong. First, the houses choose which girls they want --- there is no artificial limit (like 935 "spots"). New member classes will be the number of girls going to at least one pref party divided by 11. No girls are dropped because of numbers.

She also said she had only "the worst sorority" left. Thank goodness she doesn't name which house that was, but she was being hateful. All our sororities are filled with amazing girls. And to be honest, those girls (the ones in the "worst sorority") were the only ones who wanted her as their sister more than they wanted any other girls. She sounds like she has an inflated sense of her own desirability and that she thinks that all the houses should have been competing for her. But apparently she wasn't as desired as she thought she would be. But she did find one house where she could have been happy. She just threw it away because she was stuck up and believed all the gossip she read on here.

Do not take advice from someone who dropped. Who quit. All of her facts about the way it works are wrong. And while I agree being in a sorority does not define you, being in a sorority is an amazing experience. You are lucky to attend a school that does not have any bad chapters. All the chapters have huge amazing homes filled to capacity. It isn't the same at every school. And in the end an invitation to join one our sororities is a privilege. There are some girls who would have given anything to be a part of Greek life at OU, but their GPA or something else stood in their way. I would think this post is a real insult to them.

So basically you're saying that "if you only have the worst sorority left at pref don't worry, just drop and spring rush!" ? Horrible advice. You should've said "maybe I was too judgmental and should've given them chance because they're a great group of girls" because THATS the truth. EVERY house has amazing and involved and smart and beautiful girls, even the house you think is "the worst". And girls pledge them every year. So how does that make them feel to know that you think you were too good for them?

I understand being dropped down to one house is heart-crushing. And if you didn't feel at home there it's even worse, but not clicking with the girls and hating it because it's the "worst" sorority are two very different things. I'm very glad you found a home that you love, but don't drag a house down in the process of telling people that you found your home. Be happy for girls who found their home in that house.

The only way any house has a reputation for being the worst is on this stupid website. Before greek rank the sororities were considered different from each other in various ways (some were sporty, some were academic, some were campus beauties, some were in charge of everything, and so on), but they were all considered more elite than not being in a greek house at all. Now the elite factor is less because the houses are bigger and girls decide if they want to go greek or not based on more than whether or not they have money. But now there's an artificial eliteness based on what girls think is the top house from browsing greek rank and listening to gossip.