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truth

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It really depends on the sorority. Almost all houses have rules that make us invite legacies back one round, and almost all houses have rules that mean if you make it to pref and are a legacy, we have to give you a bid. The problem is that there are a lot of legacies. I am in a sorority that doesn't take as many OOS and we have more legacies in rush than for a pledge class! And the problem is that every girl in the house knows somebody from high school, cheer, church, camp, cousin, boyfriend's little sister, whatever it might be and lots of those girls aren't legacies but they'll be pushed for hard. Then finally we have moms and advisors hovering trying to force us to take their country club friend's daughters who we don't know and guess what, if they donate or kiss up to the advisors their picks get sent up before ours. Thats the problem with being OOS. We meet so many sweet girls during rush that go join other houses and later I'm like..."why didn't we bid her? Did we really cut her day 1?" But if you have 100+ legacies, and every sister and advisor is fighting hard for their #1 girl, well then it's a very rare OOS PNM or non-chapter legacy that will wow us enough with accomplishments and personality to get invited to join. We're not going to get every girl we or our advisors want...some will get dropped because they don't impress in person and some will choose other sororities. But we have so many to work with that it means legacies that aren't OM legacies and don't have a chapter connection will often get dropped before pref to make room for the cousin/cheer friend/advisor's top picks. It hurts but that's also why there are so many strong houses here. To have six houses out of eleven that can claim to be a "top" chapter, and all very very very strong...that doesnt happen at many other schools. I have a friend who went to a school on the west coast with eleven sororities and only two are really considered a "top" house. Top tier - top in state girls, "middle tier" - top OOS girls that could have gone top sorority at most other schools.