Another thing I wanted to add, but forgot earlier:
What makes a good rusher? In my opinion, it's someone who can connect with another person and knows whether the person they're talking to is right for your house. Ideally, we'd like the person that we're rushing to join our house, but I think a good rusher can also pick out which girls are best for your house. We always say "quality over quantity", but during rush we seem to want to take every single girl unless they are flat out rude.
But on the connection thing, maybe there is a girl who went through Recruitment and you, justme, are the one person who could connect with her. I'll admit, I am considered a "good Rusher" but even I have trouble with certain types of people. I was an orientation counselor my sophomore year and I rushed a girl who had been a member of my orientation group. When I said, "Oh, you were in my orientation group!" she replied, "Yeah, you sucked." I had no clue what to do! I gave the signal for "I need to get outta here" and one of our VPs bailed me out. But I floundered for a good minute and had no clue what to say to someone who was so blatantly rude. None of us were able to connect with her, but she joined another sorority, so apparently someone was able to connect with her.
But hey, I still consider myself a good Rusher because I was able to tell that she would not make a good Alpha Phi.
