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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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In the defense of formal recruitment (cause I love it!) I'm going to say this: to me, it's not the system that doesn't make sense... it's just a problem with the PNMs understanding it. (And I'm not trying to offend anyone!) Yes, someone could be cut by ten houses after only talking for thirty minutes. Hell, someone could be cut by ALL the houses. But a PNM always seems to forget that they filled out an application for recruitment... and that information is shared with all the chapters. Houses know before you even walk through the door whether or not they would be interested in you. (Think about things like high school GPA, activities, etc.) So a PNM shouldn't think she was cut because she failed or that they hated her or any other negative thing she may be thinking! My chapter, for example has a GPA requirement, if your application says you don't have the required GPA, you're out... regardless of how much we love you and how great of a girl you are. I mean, we're talking about how horrible it is to be cut for second round... but what chapters cut BEFORE they even met you? After all, a lot of times they've already got their minds made up anyway. That'd be even worse.
I don't go to Georgia... so can someone clarify something? Is it that you can only be INVITED back to 12 houses or that you can only ATTEND 12 parties? Here, every house could invite us back for the second round but we can only go to nine houses... which sometimes leaves the PNM making the cuts rather than the houses.