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Originally Posted by maddie101
We are on average a size 10
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Did this sentence make anyone else want to stab their eyes out? What the hell are we coming to when size 2 is the norm?
Having come from a chapter a lot like yours (only without such a large size discrepancy w/ the other chapters) I agree about getting women that you are friends with to go through recruitment or give them open bids. However, I will say something that no one has touched on yet:
Make sure it isn't YOU who are stereotyping THE RUSHEES. Make sure YOU aren't underestimating yourselves.
We had some women come through rush who we took one look at or had one conversation with and said "oh, she'll surely go XYZ (the glamor girl sorority)." We were 180 degrees from that, at least in perception. Were we ever surprised when some of those "XYZ sure things" ended up returning to our parties, and torn between us and XYZ. Were we ever surprised when XYZ rushed a certain woman hard (she was a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe) and she turned them down, saying if she pledged anything, she'd pledge our chapter.
Just because someone walks in looking like Paris Hilton and dressed in designer from head to toe doesn't mean she doesn't know the plot of every Twilight book ever written. A lot of gorgeous girls get to college and are sick of having been pigeonholed into that same shallow role all their lives - for you guys to assume that you'd have nothing in common with them stereotypes them as much as you are being stereotyped.
Get over thinking that you aren't on the same level with these girls just because they're prettier than you. You are just as good as they are.