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Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
This year for second round, out of the 18 houses you could be invited back to 12 at the most. My rho chi told us that the average number of invites for that round was 8. Can you imagine having 10 houses cutting you after only meeting you for 30 minutes? It is a terrible feeling. I think that the groups should NOT be required to cut so heavily in the begining. I think that they should have a chance to get to know the girls better, first. I have never been on the other side of rush, so I don't really know how everything works, but as a PNM, the system really doesn't make sense!
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Part of the reason that groups are required to cut so heavily is to prevent them from leading women on that they would probably only give a bid to if aliens landed in a spaceship and took every other woman on the campus.
Maybe that's a little extreme, but the reason that release figures exist is for the benefit of the PNMs so they don't go through the week thinking "wow, XYZ really wants me" and get so wrapped up in XYZ that they don't bother to get to know the other sororities. What the PNM doesn't know is that XYZ is only inviting her back to make the room look full and make the sorority look desirable to the PNMs they REALLY want - who are usually the same 150 PNMs every other sorority wants.
So it may seem harsh, but it's really trying to do them a favor.
Also, a lot of the cuts may be due to grades. Often the GPA required to go through rush is lower than what the sororities themselves require (that is, the school says you must have a 2.5 but XYZ sorority's national policies say you must have a 2.8 to receive a bid.).