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Originally Posted by 33girl
Here's something I wondered about...
If there is going to be a significant contingent of women who are only interested in being in the colony (upperclassmen, ADPi quintuple legacies, what have you), won't it kind of suck for the girls in the other sororities to have to (un-PC here) waste time being nice to them?
Or is it a moot point since they'll get cut on the first night?
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LOL. This question makes me laugh.
I would guess that a lot of upperclass women are going to register with the sole purpose of joining ADPi. At W&L, there's always a handful of sophomores that rush but usually no juniors or seniors. I think some juniors and seniors will probably rush with the intention of going ADPi or nothing. The sophomores will probably be open to ADPi but also looking at the other groups (frankly, a lot will depend if they didn't receive a bid period their first year, if they didn't like the bid options they got, or if they just didn't make grades freshman year).
Quite honestly though, I don't think that will be significant contingent of upperclass women going through recruitment. There are usually like MAYBE 10 sophomores going through. Max. So maybe, possibly, like 30-35 upperclassmen total? That would be a huge stretch I think though. I just don't know. And TBH some of the women who really desperately want to join the new group might not still be... the ideal candidates.
I think all the groups at W&L will be nice to the girls. I was always impressed that the "top" group at W&L ran the nicest recruitment and people always had the best experience with them even if they knew from day 1 they would not get a bid there. Also, I was always impressed that girls who knew they wanted to join that group were nearly always (there were a few exceptions) very friendly and open during recruitment, despite the fact that we both knew they didn't want to join my group. LOL. I can't say that for all the groups at W&L, by far.
I would think the juniors & seniors get cut at the established houses pretty quickly. Everyone will know why they are rushing. Sophomores, it's anyone's guess. I've seen people who got rejected at one house one year join it the next because the people in their class are on board with them joining.
I would think there's a lot of ADPi legacies at W&L, but frankly if they're from certain backgrounds they might want to join the top established group over an untested group. Just being brutally honest there. I do think that some people who are less concerned about reputation will want to join ADPi as legacies. Or if their mom is a national officer or something of that sort.
Frankly, I guess my question is how "significant" the contingent of women who are going through recruitment ONLY for ADPi will be. I think most women will probably be looking at established houses as well as ADPi. And again, due to issues surrounding quota, there's a chance that a lot of women who put some other house #1 and ADPi #2 are going to end up in ADPi just because of the numbers game. The competition for the established houses is going to be really intense.
The other thing to consider is that I think one of the #1 factors affecting recruitment at W&L is friend groups. So you make all these friends on your hall first semester freshman year, and the girls all want to join a house together. I've seen this affect recruitment a lot of times in cases where one of the girls could get a "higher tier" group and she ends up joining the "lower tier" one to be with her friends. So maybe ADPi could nab a bunch of friend groups in this way.