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Yeah, the whole COB and deferred rush thing is big now. When I was an active we NEVER had to recruit beyond formal Fall rush. Once in a while the weaker chapters would have to do a spring rush to get numbers when they didn't meet quota....I guess basically the same thing you guys have been talking about was happening. A lot of girls if they got cut from the big 3 would drop out altogether. It really sucks for the weaker chapters because how are they ever supposed to get better if no one gives them a chance? It's been said before....it only takes one great pledge class to turn a chapter around. (And one lousy pledge class can do the same thing.) If a bunch of quality girls who got cut from the super-elite chapters banded together and joined one of the not-so-great groups, they could get very involved and really turn things on. But you never see it happen because everyone's ego gets in the way. "Well, I'M XYZ material and there's no way I'm going beneath me to join ABC!!!!" In a way, the rushees are as snobby as the sororities get accused of being.
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