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Originally posted by 33girl
Explain something to me on release figures...I thought that if you weren't interested in a girl you were supposed to drop her ASAP, not carry her through several rounds. Also, I thought that when schools required heavy cuts (for grades, class year etc) they were usually done after first round, so the rushees would hopefully have more time to get over it and focus more on the groups that they had a better chance at. I mean if I had been a UGA rushee and got the whole way to third round in my top choice, then got cut, I think I'd quit in disgust too.
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33girl,
You're right... if you aren't interested in a girl, then you should drop her ASAP. However, there are some houses on campus that will, for lack of a better term, "string a girl along" for as long as possible just so that they can have a better chance with their bid list after Prefs. The heavy cutting before 3rd round this year was designed to prevent those houses from keeping a bunch of girls that they had no intention of bidding anyway. Unfortunately, it didn't work out quite the way that Panhellenic thought it would, and both the chapters and the rushees were hurt because of it.
This is the first year that UGA has done this type of cutting, however, so I honestly didn't really expect things to go smoothly. It will take a while to get all the kinks worked out of the system.
Rush at UGA has always been competitive, but I have to say that, overall, it has always been handled professionally by Panhellenic. These changes will take some time for everyone to get use to, but I think things will even out and, once they have, Rush should run much better for all involved. In the meantime, the houses that didn't make quota have the option of COB and, from what I understand, they are quite successful with it.
