about bid promising

AXO and ADPi are the ones being accused and I've never seen a girl shed a tear over either so so much for that theory

You know you are on this site ^ all the time and that just about every mid and upper tier house has been accused of this at one time or another. I know you love to rip ADPi, but stop being so obtuse. Inf act, perhaps it's time to get a new hobby.

You all are full of BS if you can sit here and say that out of ALL the sorority actives involved in recruitment at Mizzou that bid promising NEVER happens.

Really...?!

That not a single girl slips up and says the wrong thing...?!

If that is the case, the that is one of the biggest examples of widespread brainwashing...

So on the same day two different houses specifically told you you will be at the top of their bid list and that you should count on being asked to join? Doubtful.

In both cases I was told I was guaranteed a bid both before recruitment and during. I've done the same to pnms as well, if you're a quality pnm then having friends in high places can easily guarantee you a bid to a top tier house. Sorry if that's not fair but that's how it works.... This post is talking about mid tier houses though so yea, in most cases they're probably pissed that they lost a bid to ADPi and got stuck in the bottom as a KD.

If you went to Mizzou you would know that your post is a blatant lie. There are 3-4 women plus and alum advisor who make the final decision on where PNMs appear on the bid list, and not only are those women are NOT talking with PNMs before bids are handed out, they certainly aren't making any promises. You can have the most fantastic connection with someone or a dozen BFFs in the house, but if you don't measure high enough on the rubric that is used, then you are out of luck. The rubric provides a scale in all sorts of areas, from grades to leadership to recs to involvement to personality. Some houses value some things over others in any given year. It is on the last day that the final figures are added up and the list is made. Plus you never know whether the person who is saying glowing things about you is respected or not in the house. So, nice try. But it simply didn't happen.

Easy Now says she was promised a bid from two girls that she talked to and then she says a girl can't promise you a bid. So which is it, hun? Do you know what you are talking about or do you just like to post random schit on this site to feel important?

LOL well I can tell you aren't in a top tier! A couple weeks ago myself, several actives (including some senior exec members) went for brunch (happened every year) with some pnms we're interested in and we weren't afraid to let them know we'll be giving them bids. If you weren't aware this was going on I'm not surprised, mid/low tier houses don't have the luxury of choosing exactly who they want. PS bid selection differs amongst chapters and our advisor encourages us to meet with the cream of crop, it's tradition and it's why the top 2 houses will ALWAYS get the girls they want. Anyways the point of this isn't about ME, the point is that is does happen and if it's a passing comment by one or two actives, pnms, please don't take their word as gold. Most mean well but you can never truly guarantee that things will work out the way one, or even several, girls want it to.

This is utter B.S. There isn't a top house at Mizzou that would do this. It sounds like something houses that COB might do, but they would never get the top girls anyway so why bother. The reason a top house would NEVER do this is because they have to meet all of the girls to determine the cream of the crop. We all know that someone might look good on paper and be just awful. We also know houses where they take the girls they know from high school and, believe me, those aren't top houses either. The top houses on this campus (one of which I belong to) have very diverse pledge classes and give more than equal consideration to out of state girls. We would NEVER meet in advance and we would never break PaanHel rules. We don't need to. So enjoy your fantasy life. But anyone reading the above post should know that's simply not how it is done at Mizzou. And that's also why we have a sorority system that is the envy of schools every where.

If you are going to lie, Easy Now, don't insult us. Make it somewhat believable. There is no way on this planet that this scenario would take place. First of all, if this happened a couple of weeks ago, how did you even know who was going through rush? And if you are a top house, you couldn't make such a decision without reading recs, and they aren't even due until right before rush starts. And if you are a respectable house, why would everyone on this super secret committee even be in the same city? There aren't even two people on our exec who live in the same city, much less an entire committee. This isn't how it's done, anyway, because there isn't a sorority on this campus that hasn't been blown away by some obscure PNMs who came out of left field and won us all over. So do us all a favor and crawl back into your creepy troll hole and get off this site.

I'm honestly shocked that some people are so out of the loop that they don't know how strong STL connections are... Sure in order to make it into the top tier you need to be top of your class and have it all going for you, but where do you think all these stunning privileged academic girls in the top tier are coming from??? Lol!

I've never been impressed with St. Louis girls who come from private schools. You have to wonder how much their families really care about education when they pay big bucks so their little darlings can get A's in high school and then send them to a public university that's hardly elite. Don't get me wrong. Mizzou is a fine school in many majors, but if that's all daddy's money buys in the way of post-secondary education, well, their priorities are really skewed.

When 75% of your STL girls are coming here for jschool, bschool and nursing there's really nothing to look down on. And we all know the top houses have a lot of STL girls in them. What's stranger to me is those kids from Chicago who passed up AMAZING schools close to home to go to mizzou, clearly they didn't get into the more elite schools close to home. Much less impressive ...

Stop making up statistics. I am in journalism school and there aren't many St. Louis kids in classes with me. And someone who attends Mizzou shouldn't insult the choice of others who go to school here. If you believe there are so many better schools, why didn't you just stay home and attend Washington University?

You're a troll. Actually. So there's that

Unless the rush chair, with the president and an alum at her side, took you into the corner and made that promise, it didn't happen. It was just idle chatter. Don't be so impressed with yourself. Theta plays by the rules.

Houses who bid promise: Theta, ChiO, Pi Phi, Tridelt. I got bid promised by two of these (and they meant it, got my first choice.) These houses know they can get away with whatever they want and if you don't believe it you're obviously just not in one of these houses.

I AM in one of those houses and you clearly are not. These houses get who they want. The PNMs list them first at pref time. There is NO REASON for them to bid promise because the risk is too great, considering they are going to get who they want anyway. You really didn't think this lie through, did you?

What is pha gonna do to chio please tell me, not saying me bid promise but we get away with everything

Saying "you're going to get a bid" is a bid promise, you don't have to say "you're #1 on our list" - the fact that you feel the need to exaggerate so much goes to show you're covering something up lol

Hon, everyone who appears at a house on the last day is on the bid list. If you went here you would know that.