rooomate
by: The roommate
I know a certain top pnm is living with another top pnm from a different city. Several OR sororities want top girl "a" and are keeping top girl "b" so they don't lose "a". They do want b but not as bad as they want a.
I think this happens a lot. Do the rooomates tend to follow each other or be independent?
Comment#3by: Active
I would say in this specific case the houses want B enough to keep her on her own anyway but yeah houses will keep a roommate if they really want a girl. Fun story, my aunt rushed in the 80s and told a First Circle house flat out if they didn't bid her roommate she wouldn't go their house. Guess who got a bid
by: Active
Um, it was literally 40 years ago. Things were waaaay different then. My aunt and her roommate were best friends. And it worked because they both got bids so idk what to tell you. It was just a funny story
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by: ^
by: @^
How would she know? Her aunt told her about her rush experience, which she can probably determined was different from how they do it now.
How was it different? For starters, RFM wasn't invented until 2003 so if her aunt rushed in the 80's, it's totally plausible this could have happened. No need to be so hateful just because you don't understand something...
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by: Well
Anyone with a basic knowledge of RFM knows that things WERE different then. Rush was much more difficult because top houses could keep everyone until pref and then make brutal cuts, and PNMs could decline invites to any house even if they didn't have a full schedule. Things like this story used to happen a lot more, especially at UA in the 80s when basically everybody knew each other.
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by: Dumb
Couldn't have said it better....who cares! Wait until you graduate and join the real world and see this kind of crap DOES NOT MATTER. You wasted all that time on trivial nonsense. Smh
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by: Jj
by: act
Yes, Tut has suite style rooms. One/two on each floor, they're the rooms that open up directly into the common area.
I lived in Tut and from what I've seen most girls in those suite styles all go OR. XO, AGD, and KKG were the ones I saw the most. And for each suite, 95% of the time, almost all the girls in each suite were in the same house.
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by: ?
There's more than one suite? I thought there was just 1, maybe 3 or 4 max, definitelt not one for every single floor?
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#8by: active
It depends. Roommates who have known each other for years and were already best friends coming into college will be more tempted to pledge the same house. There's comfort in what you know, so these girls aren't looking to split up and follow different paths. This is seen a lot with instate girls and another factor that drives them to pledge the same house is that they probably already have a friend group of actives in a few houses. So with instate girls, it's a cycle - they just pledge where their friends are.
But for OOS girls who met their roommate just a few months before rush or whatever, these girls are more likely to think independently. For the most part, OOS girls aren't as "self conscious" of where they pledge because they don't have groups of friends expecting them to go a certain house... And if two OOS roommates do end up in the same house, it's usually just a happy coincidence.
And to answer your comment about houses only giving a bid to a roommate to get a more desired PNM - You really don't see that... However, I know this year there's a group of 4 incoming PNMs who are all rooming together and I know a few NR houses are really pushing hard for all of them if you care to know.
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by: ^
Nope. I'm not buying this story. Someone would turn down her bid on bid day if her roommate didn't get the same house? Nah. No PNM should believe this, for so many reasons.
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