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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
While I don't condone "bashing houses", you have to admit that at nearly every campus there are houses which are running jokes amongst everyone better than them.
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Exactly. And it is important for that discussion to happen because every big Greek system, including mine, has low tier chapters which give out bids the first time you walk in the door- and a LOT of people new to the rush process fall for that and commit to something far less than what they thought or were suitable for.
The typical pattern is to get a huge pledge class knowing a lot of them will quit and go somewhere else in a future semester- and that sucks for the rushees who were not advised in advance what to watch out for and who to be suspicious about when a bid comes too fast (and it is ALWAYS suspicious when a bid is extended on a first visit.)
The other common trap is for guys to get sold on the "closeness and better brotherhood" of a small chapter where everyone knows each other- with the lie being that small size is automatically better than large. Another good way to sucker a rushee in who has not done his homework.
And of course a lot of the low tiers will talk in rush about how they "plan" to have a mixer with a top tier sorority that fall. Not all of them do, but it sure is a common tactic in chapters with inferiority complexes.
This is why tier discussions can be important in my opinion. They make it clear to candidates that there are vast differences in the houses and let them know when they here the big talk during rush who is telling the truth and who is feeding them a line to sucker them into pledging.