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A&M rush is competitive; the houses start with 1500 girls attending Round 1 and will only have a pledge class of 85 tomorrow....that means 95% of PNM's will cut or be cut from each house during the week. Think of this- of the 1000+ girls who showed up last week dreaming of being a Kappa or a Zeta, only 160ish of those girls will actually be in those houses tomorrow . The other 840 will be somewhere else or nowhere. It is a numbers game, cannot repeat that enough. I know most of those 1000 girls thought they were special & had the grades/ recs/ connections/ looks/ leadership to get one of those coveted bids, but the vast majority won't be Kappas or Zetas tomorrow.

I would guess around 50% or more of PNM's don't have a full party card in 9, 6, and pref rounds. Then there is a common occurence where PNM's have "perfect" rush early in the week (only going back to their top chapters and not to the ones they ranked as least favorite during voting) and then have a huge cut late week and are left without a full party list. Had they been cut by 2 top houses earlier, they would likely still be invited back to 2 mid/low houses late week and have more options. It happened to me- 6 top/ mid houses for skit and then only 1 invitation to pref...I got my #1 choice but it stung to know the other 5 dropped me.

The good news is that if you have pref invitations at all - whether it's 1 house or 3 - if you list all of your options when you vote tonight, you will become Greek tomorrow!

A full schedule in previous rounds has no bearing on how many pref invites you get. If you have mostly the more competitive chapters left right before pref, it's very common to have less than three pref invites.

And that's exactly what happened. Most people would say I had 6 top houses yesterday and two rose to the top for me and I stressed how to rank the others and I got one invite today for Preference. But honestly besides having to sit around way too long, I got one of my top 2 houses and I didn't know which I liked better yesterday but today I know who liked me best and I am so excited!!! Super excited with my house and way happy I am not on pins and needles tonight. But although my rush wasn't perfect, it was perfect by my tastes until today and I got really really lucky the way went down. I will be one of few pnm's getting a good nights sleep. This is a hard process but I learned how many seriously nice, great girls are in every house. I hope everyone else is happy too. TAMU rocks and I am so glad or be greek.