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Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor
Carnation, honestly, I think the only issue with the RFM's that I see is that the first round is totally based on first impressions. There is not enough time to really get to know a girl. I think this hurts PNM's the most who are shy and reserved. I think it helps PNM's who might be very attractive, but not have a lot of the other qualities your looking for. I think you could fix this by having 1st round parties be a little bit longer, which is hard at a lot of universities or have your releases not be so drastic so you could actually meet these women a second time and get a better feel for them.
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On the other side of that coin, if Susie is THAT shy, she would probably be uncomfortable in a chapter so full of overly vivacious girls. "You'll end up where you were meant to." As far as the PNMs who are cute but crap otherwise...I'm sure they get cut very quickly.
Ditto all this to the girls who don't get into ABC because ABC only takes girls from certain cities/high schools. Why would you want to be in a group that's going to have a bunch of inside jokes that you don't understand and that every other thing they say they have to explain to you?
The whole point is: do your homework!! This is a generation that studies, compares, contrasts and preps for college admission to the nth degree. Especially when looking at competitive colleges (which these days, just with the sheer amount of college age students) is most of them. They need to look at rushing a Greek org (because I think guys also go through similar things at competitive schools) the same way.
I mean, if you can find out that Vanderbilt likes you to write your essay about a family member that died and how you grew from it (regardless of what their website says), you can certainly find out that they need recs for sorority rush (regardless of what the website says).