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Originally Posted by greekcheek

first of all i want to apologize for asking so many questions on this board! im just so interested in greek life, yet at the same time so confused. thank you all for being so patient and understanding!

anyways, there are a couple of things about rushing/recruitment that I don't really get. if anyone could answer them I would greatly appreciate it!

1. How do sororities rank girls during recruitment? I know a sister gets assigned to a PNM during the parties...but is that sister solely responsible for the decision of whether or not the PNM gets invited back to the house?

2. How do sororities keep track of everyone rushing? Like in the final ranking before bid day...how does everyone in the sorority get to rank the girls...I'd assume it'd be a mutual decision among the sisters, but what if only a few girls met those particular PNMs...how would it be possible to make a consensus decision on the rankings?...and are these rankings really an ordered list of each girl they liked in order of preference?

3. I've heard that a software is in charge of matching girls up, and we see the results form the PNM's point of views...but what happens in the sorority itself? are they delivered a paper with a list of their new bids on bid day? Are sororities ever disappointed in some of the results (like someone they ranked very low got a bid from them, or has this never happened)?

thanks so much guys! =)

*Every sorority has it's own process for determining who gets an invite back. That's considered private. I will say that typically, the decision is not up to one person.

*Every sorority has a list of the girls who are rushing, which is how they keep track of who is who. How the chapters go about rankings and such is private, but there is a definite process to it. How they come to the decisions on invites is considered private (whether they rank, don't rank, use paper airplanes or something etc).

*The sorority gets a list of the girls who have received bids to their chapter. Generally any preference round attendee has a chance to get a bid and members know that, so there's no room for disappointment over geting certain girls because they are girls the chapter placed on their final list. There is sometimes some disappointment when a PNM who prefs your chapter ends up getting a bid elsewhere, but we get over it.

FYI: Generally most questions about how a sorority determines who gets an invite or a bid is considered to be a part of the Membership Selection process and is private.

My advice, relax and just enjoy recruitment because these are things that you can't totally figure out so it's best not to concern yourself with it.