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Originally posted by 33girl
What I think aephialum is saying is - what if a rushee is matched with the one sister out of 100 she doesn't click with and she would have been great for the chapter? I'm sorry, but that really sucks.
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Exactly. Where first-round parties are very short, chapters often don't have a lot to go on when making first-round decisions - especially where rush is not deferred. Sometimes just cutting the PNMs who don't have the grades isn't enough to meet release figures.
Not only that, but PNMs don't have a lot to go on if they have to decline one or more invitations. Here's an example from my school. When I was there, rush was held first thing in the fall. Round 1 consisted of "tours", where PNMs were taken around to each sorority's rush room, followed by a total of 8 hours of "open house" where each PNM could go back to any sorority she chose and stay as long as she liked. Tours lasted ten minutes per sorority. That's all. Each sorority had ten minutes, which translated to one short conversation and a skit, to impress the PNMs into returning during open houses. Sororities generally cut any PNM who did not return during open houses - so PNMs could effectively "cut" sororities right after tours. Many did - I've seen many PNMs choose to go back to only one sorority during open houses, effectively "suiciding" right from the start - and some of them ended up bidless because they didn't give a second chance to a sorority that could have been a good fit.
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