Penn State has record turn-out for recruitment
 

Recruitment kicks off tonight, and The Daily Collegian reports that this year will see the largest number of girls ever starting recruitment. Unfortunately, neither the Collegian or Panhel reports what that number is.

I feel bad for the girls, because it is due to pour all week. (Although the freshmen will need to get used to it, since all it rains A LOT in State College, it would still be nice to be able to go to the parties not looking like a drowned rat.)

Even though seeing this number of girls at one meeting would be intimidating, I hope they realize that, with 19 sororities to choose from, if they keep an open mind, there truly IS a home for everyone.
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My life will not be complete unless someone in this group is cut by every chapter.

This I command.

Yuck. State College is supposed to get DRENCHED this week (thanks a lot, Lee). Even so, I'll be in town this weekend and am excited to see recruitment in action.

Senusret I - with 19 sororities, no one will be cut by every group. Lots and lots of girls will, however, be cut from every group they like.

Kappamd - Just spent Sunday with a PSU friend who was a Kappa in the 80s. Were you a Delta Alpha?

Are you a betting woman? I got ten dollars toward your favorite philanthropy that SOMEBODY will go bidless after maximizing their options! Somebody's gremlin lookin', non-legacy, foul breath-having, ill-tempered daughter is gonna be sad, sad, sad on bid day!

We Are...
 

You know I love this post! Thanks LionTamer for sharing!

This ain't Ole Miss, Rashid, my friend. This is Uggs-wearing, Paterno-lovin', baseball-cap sportin', "my parents' summer home is in Wildwood" PSU.

This is the Northeast, where legacies don't predominate, you don't go to a studio to get a photo taken, sororities don't memorize the PNM's faces before rush, most sororities do not require recs, and nobody knows from Lilly.

I am indeed a betting woman, but there's no way of determining if anyone who cut NO sororities was also cut from every sorority, so there would be no way for me to prove you were wrong so you could deliver not $10, but my payoff of preference: tickets to the opening game of the World Series, which will be held in Philadelphia (now there's something we actually could bet on)

Seriously, though: The problem is that everyone (dream girls and gremlins alike) drops the same "bottom tier" sororities after the first rounds - exactly the groups who might have provided them a happy home in Happy Valley. So there probably are women who "maximize their chances" in the most formal sense of the phrase, but they still screw up their own chances early on by dropping the groups most likely to want them.

Is PSU not using RFM?

No....my fiance is a PhD candidate at Penn State. I've spent so much time in State College over the past few years that it's sort of become my second home.

Just in town for the Bama festivities this weekend :)

It's raining? All week?

God bless the girls with naturally curly hair.

Checked this in my free minute b/w class & going to the parties.... have heard it is over 1000 pnms!

And it is pouring. Campus is a giant puddle.

Um. I love you.

I'm sure that there have been some people who, umm, stood out so spectacularly (and not in a good way) that they were cut by every chapter.