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Originally Posted by Lalucas

5. PNM's have a whole semester to make an impression and stand out to a house... waiting until the actual events and thinking that will work out well is naive. that said I think the lack of pre-recruitment activities will prove out to be a bigger deal than anticipated. But I'm not sure in which way... more openness to new faces or more reliance on prior friends and connections.

I have worked with chapters in my volunteer role at schools that have deferred recruitment (recruitment in spring semester) and many girls underestimate the importance of that first semester. It is a make or break.

There's a lot of "I just don't know why they dropped me, I have a 4.0, am cute, and cured cancer!" that goes on with IU PNMs. That PNM fails to realize that the chapter that dropped her can only take 40 women and in most cases, likely already HAD a good idea of who they were interested in by December.

Sure, there are some chapters that have some wiggle room with numbers. The ones that can take more and would be likely to give a PNM they've never met a closer look.

But generally, the chapters for whom every PNM is like "omg I just have to be an XYZ or I will die!" have VERY limited spots. They have to go into recruitment with some sort of an idea of who they are interested in because numbers-wise, they need to start making the cuts somewhere. And most of the time, every member has like 2 or 3 women they already know and love going into recruitment. In a chapter of say, 150, if everyone has 2 women that they love, that's 300 women. Then think about the fact that that chapter only has say, 60 spots. You can see that as the "wild card" PNM who has zero relationships with sorority women before recruitment, your chances at an invite here are slim.