T-ara's Soyeon was supposed to be an SNSD member?

Recently, Mnet released pictures of the now 6-member girl group T-ara, revealing two new members. However, pictures of one of them, Soyeon, with Girls' Generation/SNSD members have surfaced - leading many to believe that Soyeon was originally an SM trainee. These pre-debut pictures of the SNSD members with Soyeon have made netizens come to the conclusion that Soyeon was one of the members SM was considering in their rumored 11 member girl group, which is now 9 member SNSD. Obviously SM Entertainment has nothing to regret about, due to SNSD's immense popularity, but I'm still wondering how T-ara will do once they debut this month. Check out the pictures of Soyeon with SNSD below.