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Originally Posted by Drolefille
So only some people get should second chances? Why shouldn't those people who get cut after the first round w/o RFM get second chances? Why are the people who get cut with RFM more deserving than the ones who get cut without it?
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They have to make some cuts, even if all the sororities cut the same number each day
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Sure, but they're rare. There would be more situations where a girl wouldn't get a bid at all. Which is preferable?
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They're not always rare. It depends on a lot of things. Sometimes they could be nonexistant. Sometimes they could be more common. I don't have an opinion on which is preferable.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Happens to a lot of people. If most are happy, why is that considered something 'bad'?
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Preferences exist in sorority recruitment. Just because you don't get your first choice doesn't mean it's not preferred. You seem to be saying preferences don't matter since they can be happy anyway.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Because you are focused on the rare individual instead of the community as a whole. The PNMs don't know why they're cut, so they don't know if they had a "chance" or not. This maximizes every PNM's options, leads to more PNMs getting bids and helps every chapter reach quota. It's not a perfect system, but what is?
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Yes I am commenting on a particular part of this discussion, the PNMs who lose out. I really haven't said much at all about the whole community and that doesn't mean I'm not looking at it. I don't see how it matters whether the PNMs know or not, unless you're saying "they don't know so it doesn't matter if one of them gets screwed over". This maximizes many PNMs options but in some circustances which I have mentioned it takes an option away.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
It's not about changing the sorority's mind because odds are the sorority doesn't hate her, they just like X number of people better, and out of that X only Y will come to pref and then 1/2Y (or 1/3Y or whatever) will get bids. If Suzie wants to be in that number she's the same chance as everyone else (she can't control what chapters pre-make bid lists etc.). Being the applicant to something, whether a sorority, a job, or a school means that you're not the one in control of the system. If a job invites the top 3 candidates for interview, someone's always going to be number 4.
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I doubt the sorority hates her. I understand what you're saying but a large part of recruitment is to level the playing field. Sororities can make lists prior to recruitment all they like just as PNMs have preferences, but the sororities should be open to the possibility that a PNM could change their mind about what they initially thought.