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Originally Posted by SmartBlondeGPhB
Exactly. Sometimes I think it's the PNM's who are shallow and superficial and not the recruitment process........
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But you know, a lot of it is in who cuts you when. Let's say that a PNM gets asked back to 15 sororities after first parties and has to choose 12. She cuts M, N, and O. She doesn't know the groups too well yet but would have been comfortable in all 15. Then the big cuts come after second parties and she's suddenly down from 12 groups to 5 or 6. Later she's released from rush. She might have fit in wonderfully with M, N, and O and they were great chapters, nothing "wrong" with them. It was just a luck of the draw thing.
This is why I maintain that in a big recruitment, the girls who get cut more heavily after first parties often end up with more options later than those whose heavy cuts come after second parties. A lot of times, the showier sororities might keep a girl until after second parties because she's a legacy or because she has good recs but they don't intend to pledge her. Then they cut her and she can't go back to the groups she cut earlier.