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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
About JWright's great post about what to tell PNMs to "educate" them: I think you tell them at the very first meeting with the Recruitment Counselors that some chapter are required to cut a large number of PNMs after the first day and without naming any chapters, then actually give the percentages for some of the top chapters from recruitment the year before. Sure, if you get cut by a chapter you like it hurts your feelings, but if you knew that it might be one of the chapters that had to cut 50% or more, you would know you were among the majority of PNMS when you didn't get asked back to popular houses A and B.
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I really wish my Rho Gammas had told me that. I heard as gossip that the only reason a person would get cut after the first round is for grades, or if they really sucked. I had a steller GPA first semester freshman year, and I WAS released by a few groups (though I wasn't cut
that heavily), but I still thought that these top groups thought I was awful. I know now that I was likely cut due to RFM (I was comfortable at the houses, didn't make any major faux pas, I wasn't a visible freshman partying wreck, and I didn't have a bad history with anyone in the sororities...but I digress.), but at the time, I had no idea what RFM was, so I just thought I sucked. I wish wish
wish this could have been explained to me.
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
The data about how things are going system wide exists, why not let PNMS in on it? "No, actually 80% of PNMs were invited to at least half the number of parties for third round, which is exactly where we were at this point last year when 90% of chapters made quota and 84% *of PNMS got the first group they listed on their bid card and another 12% got the second group. Only 2% didn't get bids, and half of them were SIPs. So RELAX, you freaks."
*I have no idea what number is realistic and this doesn't even seem mathematically possible, but you can understand my point, which is to reassure the PNMS that things are going normally.
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Another thing I wish my Rho Gammas could have told me, so I could have seen that I stood a way better chance than I thought. I was the PNM doing all sorts of google searches trying to find placement rates at my school for the past five years. It was pathetic, yes, but I won at being the most terrified PNM in the history of sororities, and my system, while competitive, is NOTHING like the SEC and doesn't even require (or regularly receive) recs. While I was an extreme bundle of nerves, I know that there were, are, and will be tons of frazzled stressed out PNMs, and past placement rates will generally help to let them know the truth's of that campus's system. (Though I think at campuses like Indiana, LSU, Bama, ect, they could be a rather unsettling thought). I think UGAalum's ideas are terrific for calming the nerves of the stressed PNMs as well as thwarting rumors of scary rush statistics, and I fully intend to bring it up to my school's Panhellenic.