I know with my chapter it wasn't that easy- we had girls preffing a variety of chapters. At the time my chapter was diverse and had almost a 50/50 split in terms of religion, it was cool, something we were proud of and would speak about in rush- as opposed to "other" chapters that would ask thinly veiled questions.
My pledge sister & one of my best friends to this day went thru rush together (she lived across the hall from me freshman yr) and our chapter seemed to be the only chapter we had in common through out rush.

As far as the chapter already knowing who they are competing with based on who they liked during rush - the chapter might have difficulty being honest - especially if you are in a middle or lower-tier chapter. I mean, there are the chapters that you wish you were competing with - the top tier on whatever campus, and then there are the ones that you are really competing with for the same PNMs. I guess that is why polling the new members is a good idea. Did that make any sense?

Well you are competing with any top tier chapters that get girls that your chapter wanted, the only difference is that you come out on the losing side rather than the winning side in that situation.

Side bar - the PNM involved in the "incident" ended up joining the chapter! :)

That's love.:)

Wow! That was our biggest problem - our pledges preffed almost every other house. We said that was because we had "broad appeal".

I'd say most of our NMs pref 2 of 5 other chapters.

I am really happy for you!
 

I am so glad you went through recruitment and found a wonderful home. I looooove all of the diversity and acceptance. My school isn't that willing to do that, sad, bad. I liked this and like Sigma Kappa and amso pleased you love it so much. Great thread. Great ending. I hope lots of PMNs that don't fit the sterotype but who are great girls and would be great sisters read this one. Congrats and thanks alot! LOL

WOW that sounds like a pretty disorganized recruitment! I graduated from UMD in Spring '02 so 2 years before you got there? I was a Rho Chi my Jr yr and I had my list of girls by New Years and had sent them all letters well before school started again. I think I would have cried if I was in the same situation. I totally went back to help that year too! I missed the second day of I guess what would have been tours then because I wrecked my car on the way to College Park..........awesome LOL!!!!!!!!! And I can guess which chapter was mine but I wont say. A lot of things you said really made sense. I think things are probably a little different now, but yeah :)

I did cry! That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a Rho Gamma, to make sure at least 10 girls going through recruitment knew what was going on!

i was pretty sure of it when you said the cello, and i was doubly sure when you said cheesecake!

(the cello player graduated in 2006.)