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Originally posted by aephi alum
First, you went to each sorority for 10 minutes. This was followed by open houses, where that evening and the next day, you could go in and out of each sorority's rush room as you pleased. Then sororities would make their first round of cuts, generally cutting anyone who didn't make grades or who didn't stop by during open houses.
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(being a dork and quoting myself
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One thing I forgot to mention when describing open houses, is that PNMs had to sign in and out of each sorority's rush room. These lists were compiled and sent to all the sororities, so you could see exactly who had gone where and for how long! Same thing for the "informal rush" round of FR. So if a PNM spent 5 hours with XYZ and 15 minutes with each of the other sororities, the "message" was that she only wanted XYZ, and the other chapters would cut her... OTOH, if she spent roughly the same amount of time with each sorority, you'd know she was really trying to keep her options open.
There was also nothing forcing a PNM to visit all 5 sororities during open houses. So a PNM could make some snap decisions early on in rush, and shoot herself in the foot. I didn't like the open house idea, for this very reason. (A lot of PNMs didn't even give AEPhi a chance, because they'd see that we were small.
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I did like the "informal rush" round, though - it had a bit of the "flavor" of COB without actually being COB. PNMs would go over to the house for a couple of hours, or go to lunch, etc. Maybe this would be a good thing to incorporate into the standard FR practices...