*bump*
A friend of mine (I'll call her Susie - the names have been changed to protect the innocent
) told me her dumb reason for not going back to a particular sorority.
The way our first round of formal rush worked, you went to each sorority's rush room for 10 minutes ("tours"), then there were 2 open houses totaling around 8 hours, where you could go back to any sorority you wanted for as long as you wanted.
When Susie got to XYZ's room during tours, pretty much the first thing her rusher asked her was "So, do you have any questions about XYZ?" She was caught very off guard, and blurted out the first thing that came to mind: "Tell me about your nationals." Turns out her rusher had gone to convention that summer, and so she talked her ear off about how exciting convention was for the
entire ten minutes!
While I'm sure it was exciting for the sister to go to convention, Susie just couldn't get that excited about a convention for a sorority she had literally just been exposed to during rush. She was very put off, didn't go back to XYZ during open houses, and wound up dropping out of rush altogether.