I'll be perfectly honest... if the rushers are doing their job well, they will be nice and sweet to every single girl who comes in the door, whether she is a top favorite or someone who will likely not be invited back to the next round. We want every girl to leave the party with a positive opinion of our house, and ideally, wanting to be in our house. Even if we don't totally love a rushee, we still want to be nice to her and get her to like us, since there's a good chance she has friends we're interested in. The last thing we'd want is for her to tell all her friends back in the dorms that we were rude or unfriendly to her, and have those friends cut us based on her opinion. The only surefire way to know that a house really likes you is that you keep being invited back to the next rounds of rush. Of course, it could always be the case that if you are cut from a house, they really DID like you, but they just liked other rushees more. Don't take your cuts personally (almost no one goes through rush week being cut by no house), and think extra hard about the hosues that DO invite you back... that's them saying that they are interested in you and want to get to know you better. And any house that invites you to pref night knows that you could potentially be in their pledge class... so if you're even invited, you can be sure they like you. That's not to say that you'll get your 1st choice house for sure... because even if they like you, they could like other people more.
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