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Originally Posted by greek_troll
not about ritual or anything secretive, just about your feelings and intuition while recruiting new members. based on a lot of posts i've read, i was wondering what the "norms" were for recruitment in other sororties. for example:
1. Each rush week, about how many "rush crushes" do you have?
2. By pref, do you have a pretty strong feeling about which girls want which houses?
3. Do you get a feeling or hear rumors about which houses want which girls?
4. How often do you pref someone, confident that they want your house, and they reject a bid?
5. On the first round, how many girls do you honestly not remember at all? What about by pref?
6. Is it likely or unlikely that your biggest rush crush ends up pledging, and becomes a big part of your house?
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1. I had one as an active, and 2 as a recruitment counselor. One of them wanted another sorority in particular from the get go, so I tried not to get too attached to her. One got dropped from recruitment, and one pledged my group then transferred a semester later. So I stopped having them by my last year.
2. The one group on campus that usually has a fairly significant number of PNMs wanting them from day 1 is Phi Mu and we usually know who these girls are pretty early on (because they say so, to recruitment counselors at least and naturally that gets back to the chapters). Otherwise not so much. Even as a recruitment counselor I didn't encounter a noticeable number of girls that really knew where they were going by pref. Most can't decide until after the parties.
3. No. There are usually about 100 girls going through and 20 or so of those are fought over by all of the chapters, and we all know that we all want them. Otherwise unless a best friend or sister of an active goes through I don't think there is a lot of knowledge about what chapter wants what girl.
4. Not often while I was active. The girls seem to do a good job of inviting back PNMs that want our chapter...and knowing who at pref isn't going to show up on bid day.
5. As an active, most of them...even by pref. But I was a recruitment counselor twice and I knew the majority of the PNMs early on. Of course, that is because we have more contact with them as recruitment counselors.
6. I sort of already answered that question. I'm sure it depends on the rush crush. I can think of a few that sisters badly wanted that did indeed become extremely good, productive members.