Auburn Recruitment

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

There's a difference - and no matter how emotional the time, no matter if you're 18, you can usually sense it - between someone who is awkward and/or so fried they can't connect, and someone who is summarily dismissive of you. I am guessing the latter is the type of thing auburnmom09's sweet daughter (for she is indeed sweet in thinking about others, not just herself) heard about.

I wouldn't feel qualified to judge this unless I knew the people in question. While I think a lot of people can tell the difference, a certain number of teenagers make too much out of perceived slights. Since there's an element of friend of a friend here, I'd reserve judgment.

I also think it's kind of unlikely that a "top chapter" is keeping around too many girls going into, what? third round, that the chapter isn't authentically pretty interested in. My impression is that the vast majority of sorority women at Auburn have pretty good manners, and even if they don't all the time, they aren't going to blow people off DURING RECRUITMENT.

The clueless rusher scenario just seems a lot more plausible to me, but as I said before, I have no idea what really happened.

Now PNMS being jerks, I can totally believe. You see some crazy competitive and selfish behavior out of some girls, even if it's driven by insecurity and rush rumors. When these girls get bids, they often learn how to do better in at least pretending to treat others well.

[BlueCarnation]

When I rushed, I remember having 5 or 6 girls rush me at once at the chapter at which I was a legacy. To me, this was so bizarre, since at the other houses, it was more one on one. I totally panicked--how did these girls know so much about me? Why were they talking to me? WHAT IS GOING ON??? I knew nothing about rush, and when our group left, everyone came up to me and said they noticed that I had a ton of girls around me. Another PNM in my group then said, "Well, they're the most popular girls on campus. You won't get in." !!! (I didn't get a bid there. But this gal got cut from every house after that round.)

My point is that rush is totally confusing and people say stupid things and you really have no clue what really goes on--and karma catches up to people. I think these girls genuinely were trying to get to know me, and I'm sure it was the same with your daughter.