Actually, with our recruitment being deferred for a whole year, we can't help but rush cliques, especially for COB. Sometimes it can work to your advantage, like when you get 1 or 2 girls from a group really interested in your house and they talk all of their friends into joining, but it can also be a disadvantage, like when you have 1 or 2 girls really interested but their best friend can't join for whatever reason so none of them do. There is also the dilemma of "well we can't get Suzie unless we also give a bid to Jenny, even though we don't particularly know/like Jenny." It even happens with formal recruitment; you see groups of girls choosing to cut the same houses, or if they all want a particular house and that house cuts one girl, she and all of her friends will drop out of recruitment. It's absolutely ridiculous and is reason number 785643189 why I can't stand deferred recruitment.
