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Originally Posted by RedRover
I have enjoyed reading the various recruitment stories, but I have one question.
I have read about fraternities and sororities eliminating or "cutting" rushees through the various rounds. I am curious if any forum members know of a case where rushee was cut from all the fraternities or sororities during the first round of rush.
I ask the question because, from what I have read in the various postings, a rushee might only have less than 30 minutes to make positive impression on the members of a particular house. I have wonder if some 18 or 19 year olds have enough social skills to make a positive impression on a group of strangers, givien the various limitations of time, logistics, etc.
Just wonderin'
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The short answer is yes, but you really had to screw up, at least on my campus, to be dropped from recruitment right away.
We had a girl come through rush who was cut by every chapter after the first night. She was a nice enough girl as a person....but she had made some incredibly poor choices during freshman week which led to a really gross situation. Needless to say, her reputation was trashed, and no chapter wanted to associate her kind of behavior with their group. She was the only PNM released after the first round that year.
There always seemed to be at least one woman cut by all groups after the first round. Normally these weren't due to reputation issues (honestly, you had to have a LEGENDARY rep like the aforementioned PNM) but due to bizzare behavior. Looking back, those bizzare PNMs probably had a personality disorder of some sort -- you had to have been really, really weird to be cut by all chapters on my campus after 1st round -- but the absolute lack of social skills, even by an 18 year old's standards, probably did them in. Think about a PNM in all seriousness saying really sexual, creepy, or violent things. That would be the kind of woman to get cut after the first round.