to that one salty girl/mom

This GDI Movement is NOT about sororities 7 & 8. Its is about the University and PanHellenic's recruitment tactics and policies. These policies have left 50-100 ladies out of Greek Life in past years. In the recent 5 years, these numbers have increased to over 150, this year almost 200 ladies.

These recruitment cut or dropped ladies have quietly transferred or continued as a GDI at SMU. NOT this year, we are BIG and POWERFUL and DEMAND CHANGES!

You are amazing and so is your house and your panhellenic sisters love you and support you. This one messed up troll is just another pathetic human being posting on greekrank and is getting easier and easier to ignore at this point. She has no meaning to SMU or any house here; she does nothing, she is nothing.

Love this amazing post, and love this positive message. Greek life is what you make it, and people like you prove it what is actually is: a strong sisterhood of women who provide service to a philanthropy while working toward high academic achievement, proud to be in their house and glad to be a part of something that provides assistance to so many in need.

Also, troll (you know who you are), acknowledge the fact that if nobody dropped out of recruitment, ALL of the houses would have bigger pledge classes. There WAS room for your army, so yes, please do go to SMU and Panhellenic with your complaints, because they will ONCE AGAIN repeat that these exact same policies apply here and at every other school. They will show you that this was explained from the beginning and that the same rules apply to everyone, even if one person feels they shouldn't apply to her (daughter). A parent approved solution to leave the school is an immature and reactive one at best, and speaks volumes about handling disappointment and overcoming adversity. So sad, but Godspeed. Still waiting to see any mention from you of philanthropy or academics, but let's not hold our breath on that. Also, the labeling of independents in the derogatory term of GDI was a particularly courteous and thoughtful touch. Good job, you.

But my apologies for the digression. In the end, if bids/invitations exist, but a choice is made to refuse them, stop blaming others and look in the mirror. It's not them. It's you. \n\n\n\n\n

Enough already. Just stop feeding this troll everybody; no more responses to the absurdities of the posts. It/she is an attention-seeking idiot having a ball pushing your buttons at this point. Everything that can be said has been said. No need to give it any more attention. Just neglect it and let it talk to itself.

Just got a call from my High School friend who is now an active in her top tier UT sorority. We both attended highly esteemed private college preparatory schools and are from upper class Texas families. UT had their recruitment BEFORE classes began in the Fall. She knew the recruitment results and registered last Fall as a first semester freshman with confidence as a top tier sorority pledge. She was initiated last December and is laser focused on her major, sorority life as an active and pursuing her future husband at her sorority's numerous fraternity mixers.

Conversely, I paid 4 times as much on tuition to attend SMU. Began the lengthy recruitment last Fall that lingered into the Spring semester. Received great encouragement and was lead-on by two top tier sororities of my pending bid to their sorority. Just to be cut late and only offered prefs by sororities 7 and 8. Both were not a fit for me.

I now realize, best case scenario is to skip Fall rush and go through Spring recruitment again to try to land a spot in the sororities that interest me. Meaning I will be a Junior before I am an active in one of these sororities. While my High School friend would have been an active for 1 1/2 years.

Realistically, as a Sophomore I will be cut again by the top 6 sororities and will receive the same bids from 7 and 8. It will then be too late to transfer to another university without losing a semester of credits.

So I need to cut my loses and transfer to UT this summer. I will need to take 3 -6 hours of summer school to make up for non-transferable credit hours then go through UT recruitment in August. A brutal schedule of non-stop classes for the next 12 months just to catch up with my UT friend. Otherwise, stay at SMU as a GDI social outcast paying 4 times the tuition as my UT friend.

There are over 200 ladies in this predicament this semester at SMU. Yes, Panhellenic snobs, your recruitment was a historic FAILURE.

Love, love, love the positive and sweet message about Panhellenic sisterhood. There is so much sugar here at SMU. Thank you for sprinkling the thread with sweetness!

^^^not true!! ALL of the houses take sophomores!
And the purpose of spring rush is to give the girls many opportunities to meet lots of girls in all of the houses. Stop complaining, what are you teaching your daughter?! Instead of complaining and making up reasons why she didn’t get what she wanted. Tell her to try again next spring and between now and then, meet as many girls as she can from what ever houses she’s interested in! And be fun and outgoing, make a good impression! Stop blaming everyone else, SMU follows the same rules set for all universities!

Pending upon the sorority and their quotas, they can give a few bids to sophomores. The number of sophomore bids is limited. They give priority to transfers, then to those going through recruitment again. On average, each sorority will offer under 5 sophomores a bid. Not a promising option to those 200 of us who were cut or had no suitable sorority option this year.

Full Disclosure is requested to list all those legacies and non-legacies in each sorority PC this semester. Then disclose how many in each PC are sophomores, transfers and those that went through recruitment again. These historic facts will disclose the truth in how the Greek System at SMU is a closed society.

I am very supportive of 7 and 8. They should be given every advantage and every consideration by potential new members. But 200 women dropping out is roughly 26 percent of the women in the freshman class (200 / (1,522 x .5). Those numbers cannot be ignored.

This post assumes (and it's a big assumption) that all 200 transfer solely because of they did not get a bid to a sorority they wanted.

Using the numbers posted on SMU's website (current through 2016), the 200 women transferring would represent about a 13 percent attrition rate (200/1,522). (Interestingly, 1,723 bachelor's degrees were conferred 2015-2016.) Whether SMU actually takes any action on this would depend of whether transfers can replace the number of students lost.

If 13 percent of the freshman class leaves solely because of sorority rush experience, it will get the attention of SMU's administration.

If 26 percent of the women in the freshman class (200 / (1,522 x .5)) actually leave solley because of their rush experience, it will definitely get the attention of SMU's administration. It would be difficult to believe that SMU would not take any action at all. But if they do, they may move slower on changes than what would be acceptable to those complaining on this site.

I suspect that if all 200 students actually complain (and not just complain on Greek Rank), those complaints really cannot be ignored by SMU's administration.

The real question to consider: Will 200 students leave SMU just because of this?

Panhellenic cannot pretend to offer 360 memberships to over 600 powerful ladies without dissent. Being from one of the 1-6 sororities, I heard first hand many verbal offerings of membership. Many of these were not possible due to quota limits.

I encourage these ladies to make suggestions on how we can better prepare them for the disappointment of quota limits. Being a GDI in such a socially Greek Life controlled financially expensive university is hard to validate.