Ranking/Scoring of PNMs between parties.

[APhiAnna]

Originally Posted by Entchen

Really? It's that big of a deal to discuss how you do delibs on an anonymous forum?

Well, I don't mind sharing. After each day of rush, we sit around in our living room, and go through a powerpoint with each PNM's name and picture (usually just their facebook picture or one they supply - it's just a reminder of who they are, since we meet so many people. We don't facebook stalk you and then talk about how your picture is terrible or anything like that, don't worry!). People who know the girl or met her during rush give the girl in question a ranking from 1 (terrible) to 5 (amazing), and then explain why they gave that score. We always try to end with a positive, and then everyone in the sisterhood, even those that haven't met the girl, give her a score 1-5 based on what they've heard. Our New Member Selection chair then adds up the points each PNM got, and the more points, the higher on our list she goes. Also, if you have a specific reason why you would feel uncomfortable with a certain girl in the house, you can talk to our president privately, and she will be cut, but that happens fairly infrequently.

You are, however, in a local sorority. It is the tendency of national GLOs to not talk about membership selection. So you aren't doing anything wrong on your end, I'm just giving the perspective of the NPCs.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the NPCs tend to have far more complicated selection processes than the one you just described. I know our Recruitment Manual is something like 150-200 pages long. This is likely to do with the prevalence of NPC chapters at schools with HUGE recruitments...let's face it, if it was as simple as sitting in the living room and a 1-5 ranking there is no way that our chapters could get through 900-1,000+ women in the large recruitments.

[Entchen]

Originally Posted by APhiAnna

You are, however, in a local sorority. It is the tendency of national GLOs to not talk about membership selection. So you aren't doing anything wrong on your end, I'm just giving the perspective of the NPCs.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the NPCs tend to have far more complicated selection processes than the one you just described. I know our Recruitment Manual is something like 150-200 pages long. This is likely to do with the prevalence of NPC chapters at schools with HUGE recruitments...let's face it, if it was as simple as sitting in the living room and a 1-5 ranking there is no way that our chapters could get through 900-1,000+ women in the large recruitments.

Yeah, I understand that every place does it differently, and there are rules you have to obey. My school probably is unusual among Greek schools that it is so small (300 girls that rush? That's more than half of the girls in the class). But since it is something I am allowed to talk about, I thought I'd at least share so that the OP could have some idea of how it MIGHT be done.

I guess I wasn't as much surprised that people chose not to share their own stories as much as I was surprised that everyone thought it was so unreasonable to even ask. Even if she only got a few responses, that's still a bit more information than she had before.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by APhiAnna

You are, however, in a local sorority. It is the tendency of national GLOs to not talk about membership selection. So you aren't doing anything wrong on your end, I'm just giving the perspective of the NPCs.

One other thing to keep in mind is that the NPCs tend to have far more complicated selection processes than the one you just described. I know our Recruitment Manual is something like 150-200 pages long. This is likely to do with the prevalence of NPC chapters at schools with HUGE recruitments...let's face it, if it was as simple as sitting in the living room and a 1-5 ranking there is no way that our chapters could get through 900-1,000+ women in the large recruitments.

Let's keep the local bashing and NPC superiority out of it, please.

I don't think Entchen's openness has anything to do w/ her being in a local - it has to do with her campus culture. The NPC groups on her campus are apparently also rather free with their MS information.

[APhiAnna]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Let's keep the local bashing and NPC superiority out of it, please.

Uhhhh? I was clarifying that she was free to talk about membership selection because she was in a local. We aren't. Don't put words/intentions in my mouth because my post in no way inferred that.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by APhiAnna

Uhhhh? I was clarifying that she was free to talk about membership selection because she was in a local. We aren't. Don't put words/intentions in my mouth because my post in no way inferred that.

Assuming she is free to talk about it because she's in a local IS local bashing. You have no idea what her local's rules are, or the rules of any of the other hundreds of locals across the country. Some of them are WAY more secretive than any NIC or NPC group.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Assuming she is free to talk about it because she's in a local IS local bashing.

How so? It's a known fact that NPC and NPHC sororities don't disclose their membership selection processes. I believe the same is true of all national GLOs. So, by process of elimination, she must be in a local. If her local wants to disclose their MS process, so be it.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

How so? It's a known fact that NPC and NPHC sororities don't disclose their membership selection processes. I believe the same is true of all national GLOs. So, by process of elimination, she must be in a local. If her local wants to disclose their MS process, so be it.

It's local bashing to automatically assume ALL locals discuss their MS practices, and to imply that it's wrong to do so.

And as I said - she made it CLEAR that the NPCs on her campus talk about it too. It's not a local/national issue. It's a campus culture issue. I'm sure that some of the people who are at her discussing this have sisters on her campus that are doing the same thing.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by 33girl

It's local bashing to automatically assume ALL locals discuss their MS practices, and to imply that it's wrong to do so.

And as I said - she made it CLEAR that the NPCs on her campus talk about it too. It's not a local/national issue. It's a campus culture issue. I'm sure that some of the people who are at her discussing this have sisters on her campus that are doing the same thing.

Honestly, no one seems to be "bashing" in this thread. She stated in a previous thread that she was in a local. Then, she came to this thread and revealed her MS practices. There was no "assumption" by the other posters -- obviously, her local allows her to reveal MS practices. It looked like they were just clarifying that they couldn't talk about MS because of NPC membership.