Dear PNMs it’ll be ok

With rush coming up soon I’m going to share my experience, not to scare you but to show you that it might not work out in a traditional way.

Going into rush I thought I was golden. I was from a neighboring state of bama , had good grades (3.7 uw) 200+ service hours, National honors society, varsity athlete, rec letters, good reputation in my town . All this to say I felt that I would be able to get a bid pretty easily.

Through the week I felt like I had good convos, however when the schedule came out every morning, I had had some pretty dramatic cuts compared to my friends. After go Greek I had only been invited back to 5 houses.
I stuck with the process, the odds of keeping at least one until bid day was pretty good right?
I woke up the morning of pref with a call from my Rho chi
that I had been cut from the process and I would not be getting a bid. Both me AND her were confused. I had done all the stuff they had asked me to, kept my medias clean, gotten the grades and not talked about any of “the 5 b’s” but was still cut? I emailed Panhellenic and they said whilst rare, it did happen. Still have never gotten an answer on why.
But yk life went on. That semester I made deans list. Still went to sorority events with my friends in their chapters, went out! Had fun , kissed a few too many frat guys (oops) and just overall bettered myself. Come spring rush I got a bid from a house many people consider desirable. All this to say, it might not work out at first but it will eventually