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Originally Posted by Lala9825
I was rushing this year as a fresheman, and had some interesting results. I was very prepared going into rush with recs for every house, appropiate outfits, and conversations dos and donts. I went to all the houses with a positive attitude, and was smily, outgoing, interested in what was being said to me, and kept the conversation flowing. I went to all of the houses the first day, and thought I had great conversations with all of the houses, but i had an idea which two I wanted to cut. The next day my schedule said I had been cut from three of my top houses, and had to go back to my bottom two. The next day of rush I had the best natural conversations at 3 houses, only to find out the next day i got cut from all of my top choices except for one, and yet again had to go back to my bottom 2. Im all for giving sororities a chance, but I could NEVER see myself in the bottom two and would never wear my letters in public although I was still polite and friendly. Any advice about what may have gone wrong?
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Can you honestly say that you went to your "bottom two" each day prepared to give them another chance to win you over? Since you "would never wear [those] letters in public" I really have to assume that you made your mind up about these chapters before recruitment began based on their "tier". You only commented on the embarrassment you'd feel from being a member of these groups, not any lack of connection you may or may not have felt.
Minds change, and if you truly went through with an open mind, you might have learned to love one of those groups, but with your attitude, they are lucky not to have you.
As for why you were cut from your favorites, we can't tell you because we don't know. Certain chapters have to cut a certain percentage of PNMs after each round. Maybe you didn't make a strong enough impression and the chapters chose to keep women they felt more strongly about. We don't know your GPA, actitivies, if anyone has a personal grudge or if you did something to damage your reputation. We don't know you.