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Old 06-08-2007, 01:41 PM
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Which brings us to another recruitment myth:

You should choose the "best" chapter that invites you to preference, regardless of how comfortable you feel there.

I have heard several stories about PNMs who do this and then they end up being unhappy. Go with where you feel most comfortable. Likewise, don't feel pressured to go back to smaller chapters just out of sympathy.
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Old 06-08-2007, 01:54 PM
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Which brings us to another recruitment myth:

You should choose the "best" chapter that invites you to preference, regardless of how comfortable you feel there.

I have heard several stories about PNMs who do this and then they end up being unhappy. Go with where you feel most comfortable.
Agreed. Join the sorority that you feel comfortable with, not the one that everyone else likes, so you feel like you should like them too.

My friend preffed 2 chapters (AB and CD). AB was considered by PNM "talk" to be one of the "top" groups and CD was "average", but a pretty good group. She figured it was a no-brainer that she should put AB first over CD, since AB was more popolar amng all the other PNMs that year.

She got a bid to AB. It turns out that was a bad decision because she had NOTHING in common with most of them (since she only picked them because other girls liked them). She stuck with AB and got initiated just because everybody "wanted to be an AB." She ended up resigning her membership 2 weeks after initiation because she was so unhappy. She even walked up to the CD recruitment chair on campus one day almost in tears saying that she should've pledged CD. It was too late for that.


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Likewise, don't feel pressured to go back to smaller chapters just out of sympathy.
Agreed. Recruitment is about where you feel comfortable, not where you feel "guilted" into joining.
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Old 06-08-2007, 02:04 PM
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Likewise, don't feel pressured to go back to smaller chapters just out of sympathy.
Right, you may hurt them worst of all. If you know that you wouldn't take a bid from a group and have no intention of listing them on the bid card AND you have a chance to cut that group before you go to their pref, please do. That group needs to be able to focus its energy on the PNMs who actually do want to pledge there. If you have your mind made up, don't string them along.
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