Grr. Various PNMs have called here for the past 2 weeks, telling me how their rush experiences are going and FIVE have told me that they've been forced to go to prefs where they didn't want to join, didn't want to even go to a second party there. This is crap! If someone doesn't want to be at your second, third, etc. party, why the heck would they want to be at your pref?
And yet all these girls--at 4 different schools-- were told by their recruitment counselors that they had to go or be ineligible for snap bids if they didn't. They were told that the same would happen if they suicided to finally get rid of the chapter they'd never wanted.
What is this, Panhellenic's method of attempting to beef up the smaller groups? It really upset the girls it happened to and it also hurt the sororities they didn't want to go to because these groups really thought the girls wanted them and had huge pref parties and then had practically no new members on Bid Day.
I can see requiring PNMs to attend the max number of parties for a couple of days but this forced pref business stinks.