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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
So I guess my question is (and I know absolutely nothing about sorority rush, so flame away if I'm way off) do the nationals of Icky Iotas (and I'm sure everybody has a couple, just like everybody has amazing chapters) put together a plan for them to recruit a little differently? Obviously go through formal rush, but also with the understanding that this isn't our main way to get new members? I know all those chapters COB already, but it seems to me that even with RFM there are still problems for Icky Iotas...at what point does everybody stop trying to make the system perfectly fair and change, frankly, the immature mindset of 1,000+ PNMs, and instead admit that maybe Icky Iota will never shine during formal recruitment, and that's an OK thing, and then tweak and work on improving COBing instead?
If all of this is dead wrong from a sorority perspective, then tell me so. But it seems like from reading all the stories around here that it is damn near impossible for an Icky Iota at a super-competitive campus to change their status by formal recruitment.
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It's not just recruiting, it's
retention. Even if you're able to - with a combo of formal rush and COB - get up to total or average chapter size every time, if the best fraternities still don't want to mix with you, if you still have to see Icky Iota grafitti everywhere, no matter how many stops you pulled out during rush, your new freshman members are going to be dropping like flies. This is why I'm such a deferred rush pimp. Yeah, the girls hear all the stereotypes and tent talk and maybe even see some truth in them (like the mixer situation), but they come in and KNOW that and have accepted that. "Yeah, maybe I won't go to as many mixers or get nominated for homecoming, but I really like the women in the chapter. I don't really care about the other stuff, but maybe I can help it to improve." Women who aren't into that shouldn't have to go there - or feel hornswaggled that the chapter who seemed like social butterflies in rush (or COB) is...not.
There are chapters out there that rely too much on COB, just as there are those who think formal rush is the be-all & end-all. You need to do BOTH to succeed.