unexpected bid

This didn't happen to me, I had mostly "upper mid" houses on pref day. But I know lots of girls who would have 2 "top" houses and then like SK and a lot of them got into SK and I know girls who didn't get a bid. There are lots of girls who end up with 3 really good houses on pref day and then don't get a bid because they didn't have a fall back option

I had two top tier houses and a mid-tier house and got a bid from one of the top tier houses. My roommate, on the other hand, had two top tier houses and a lower-mid to bottom tier house on the last day and only preffed the top two houses. She left the third off her list. BIG MISTAKE. She got nothing. The sad thing is that she really wanted to be Greek but many girls encouraged her to do what she did. Bad advice, bad decision. She's going through as a sophomore in August, but the sad thing is that she already knows the top two don't want her and the bottom tier house is probably angry that she thought she was too good for them. So there are three houses that might very well write her off from the start. Moral of the story: if you want to be greek, list all three choices.

I suicided a mid tier house and was called the next morning without a bid. COBed another house later on and am happy now... But don't let it happen to you! Emotional roller coaster. Suiciding was a mistake!

I cut 2 of the 3 "top" houses on my own, and on pref day had 1 top house, and 2 upper middle houses. On bid day I got my first pref which was the top house!

This isn't exactly what you asked but I had chi o, theta, and phi Mu on my bid list. I preffed phi Mu first cause I felt comfortable and happy in that house but was told later by an older friend in Chi o that I was on their bid list! Just because you're a top tier house doesn't mean that's the best fit for every girl! Just follow your gut

It is true that most girls end up with at least one top house and either middle houses or one middle house an done bottom. The girls who end up with this on pref day should pref every house if you know you want to be greek. If you have no interest but the "top" houses then leave the other ones off your list because those houses need girls who want to be there. There are lots of girls who get their choices all week and then get a bottom house or dropped all together. I knew a girl who after the first round got her top 11 back. Which means she no longer went back to Zeta, SK, Phi Mu or Sigma. I only get 10 houses back and 2 of the 4 I had less interest in showed up on my list. Unfortunately my friend got a call the morning of pref day saying she had no houses ask her back because the only houses she had left were the more selective houses

The selection process is a bit of a mystery, but one thing is clear: it is he houses that do the definitive choosing, not the PNMs. You will want to wind up joining a house where you are comfortable, of course, but you might want to do yourself a favor and not just go with upper tier houses on the last day because the prevailing attitude is that's the cool thing to do. If you had a special fondness for a mid or lower tier house, don't rule them out just because they aren't top tier. The way it works is that the top houses (ChiO, PiPhi, TriDelt) usually get their pick of girls and wind up with pledge classes that consist of people on the top half of their bid list. So if your name is toward the bottom of three top tier bid lists, you might not get anything. But if you eliminate one of the top tier houses going into the last day of parties and instead keep a lower-tier house, you increase your chances of getting something. And let's be honest, most of the sororities at this school are so good that any of us could be happy any where. Does this all make sense? I hope I have explained things well.