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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
Complete lane swerve, but I was told anecdotally by close friends that this was the case in at least two sororities at the school I went to, one a "top tier" and one a "middle tier". Comments were more or less to the extent of, "I was really nervous because they are assigning me to rush in the __________ room, and that's where the girls we really want are taken," or "Knowing what I know now, I was surprised I got a bid because in retrospect they put me in the __________ room on the first day." So while I can't tell you for sure, these comments clearly seemed to indicate that some chapters at my school do pre-evaluate you to some extent and PNMs are "filtered" (for lack of a better word) to be in certain areas or meet the "best" rushers. I remember thinking how crazy organized and pre-destined it seemed at the time, and it really stuck with me. These weren't PNMs, these were girls who had gone through rush on their side multiple times so it seemed much more concrete than an urban legend.
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Yeah, to be fair, I can't say across the board that it's an urban legend, but
in my experience and specifically with the first parties, there was no method to our madness, except that you had a spot you were assigned to for traffic flow reasons only.
One exception to that might be if we knew a legacy was coming through at a certain party, we may try our best to match her with someone she would mesh well with - but even that was beyond our control sometimes.
The sorority I remember this rumor being applied to - you either rushed in the formal living room which was upstairs, or they took you downstairs to a den area. I went downstairs, which was the alleged code for "cut" - and yes, I was. Those two things may be related, or not.
I think that the legends obviously originate from somewhere, and in most of them there's some fragment of reality that got distorted over years and years.
Or, like mythology, they were created to explain the inexplicable. Like those mysterious computer glitches that drop you from all the best houses right before 3rd round... Hmmm.
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