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Originally Posted by SECdomination

Here is why the overweight girl MUST be "hidden":

At a school with a competitive greek system, image is everything. All the sisters of all the sororities dress their best and look their best during rush. So you end up with most girls looking good and wearing designer clothing. Because they all do that, there is a level playing field.

The rushees don't care about what the girls are wearing because it's all expensive. One element of superficial rush is gone.
All the sisters spend so much time getting themselves all done up, so they are lookin' good! Another element of superficial rush is gone- all the sororities have attractive girls!

But, WAIT!

This one sorority has some fat girls. There must be something undesirable about them because this house is DIFFERENT from the rest.

It's unfortunate, but sometimes necessary.

This post actually really put the situation in perspective for me. I'm not from a highly competitve recruitment school, so it's hard for me to understand why there would be pressure to hide girls who are large. It seems as if in order to compete, the playing field must be completely level. If you are on a campus full of huge chapters, and you are already smaller, it seems to me like you can't afford to be "set apart" from the other sororities by the size of the women in your group.

Not saying that this practice is something that I agree with, but this did help me to understand the rationale behind it.