[Betarulz!]

Well there's been some drama the last couple of days. Basically, this is the first rushee that we've been pretty confidant that we're going to get and then find out that he's not as strongly leaning towards us as we thought.

This rushee is friend of a couple guys in the house, and so we thought we had that going for us. He apparently came through on his NSE day and when one of the rush chairs jokingly asked if he was going to sign the bid card, the kid actually answered that he was. Over the past couple of days though reports from his friends in our house have said that he's really torn between us and Farmhouse.

Now when you know this is the situation, there are two ways you can go. You can either keep in contact with the rushee, maybe even schedule another visit with his parents at his house, or you can leave him alone. Some rushees will be turned off by the extra attention and feel that a house is desparate for them, while others will go to the house that really seems to want them. Sometimes there is the feeling of desire to go to the place that doesn't call just because they seem not to need you.

It's also tough though because we don't say bad things about any other houses. And so we can't say things like "Well they are on East Campus, do you really want to have to ride a bus or drive to City Campus everyday?" or point out the obvious pros and cons of our two houses.

In the end, a 30 minute phone call from one of the rush chairs seemed to have firmed up his commitment to our house, but with rushee like this, nothing is certain until we have the bid card in our hands to turn to Greek Affairs.