[Beryana]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Umm no.

Selling shoes at Macy's is sales, plain and simple.

There are quite a few more things (most having to do with human emotions) that go into sorority recruitment.

And you were in a sorority in college, so there's NO way you can look at it the same way that an AI who never participated in collegiate Greek life could. Even if you weren't a rush chair, you rushed women in a collegiate setting and you have that experience in your memory bank.

The basics of sales is that you have a product to sell to someone. That product can be overpriced shoes or a sorority. Either way, you are trying to convince someone else that they cannot live without this sorority/these shoes/etc. That's sales. Recruitment = sales.

Despite being in a sorority in college, the only thing it gave me was a desire to find a sisterhood that I could belong to (my collegiate experience was NOT the most rewarding!). I really would not consider the rush process at SNC anything close to what goes on at a Big Ten school (which is nothing like what happens at SEC schools). I had to learn ALL kinds of new things regarding policies and procedures when I became an adviser because there was NOTHING similar - oh, I knew the extension process because I was through that but otherwise there really wasn't anything similar!

To refresh the memories of those involved in this tangent, the original post by AlphaFrog states:

AIs generally DO NOT make good advisors...it's like the blind leading the blind. They'd be better off with an NPC Alum who has been through rush and ritual on both sides.

Nothing was specified about brand new AI who never were involved in Greek Life (or any college organization) would make a good recruitment adviser. Even to say that AIs do not make good advisers for a struggling chapter is just plain stupid (whether they were involved in collegiate Greek Life, another college organization, or not!).