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Originally Posted by carnation
Also, and I speak from experience--there may be some very good reasons that existing sororities don't want to pick up some of the girls, especially if the floundering group was their only option. It could be that they were QRs, grade risks, drama queens--who knows besides the groups that cut them?
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And considering Alpha Alpha dropped their new members weeks after recruitment was over, this would require the other chapters to have two new member classes if they are to stick to the 6-week max new member period for everyone. Therefore, two separate sets of ceremonies and initiation, perhaps another elected New Member Educator, twice the number of meetings, etc.
It's not completely unheard of to have two new member classes in one semester, but logistically, it can be a lot of work and requires planning, so chapters tend to avoid it if they can. Plus, it's typically only done by chapters that are struggling numbers-wise.
It's not a matter of these chapters being "mean girls" who don't want to include anyone else, but perhaps they don't know a lot of these young women well enough (e.g. they were dropped from Delta Delta in round 1 of formal recruitment), and for those they might want to give a bid to, they just don't have it worked out logistically to make it happen for what probably amounts to only a few additional new members on top of the 45 they already have.
