MIT recruitment posters

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I didn't say that they didn't. That's the thing about MIT-type campuses...100% of the female students are so smart, accomplished, and motivated that a chapter can choose based on looks and popularity and still end up with a new member class with all kinds of great attributes. But that doesn't change the fact that only pretty, popular girls are welcome in that chapter. It's obvious that Chapter A cares about looks, and it's obvious that if you enter NPC recruitment, Chapter A will judge you on those shallow attributes. If you think that's unacceptable -- and most MIT-type girls think that's unacceptable -- then you don't rush at all, and the less shallow chapters don't get to meet you.

These posters are terrific, but there's only so much they can do to change PNMs' ACCURATE perception that they will be judged on their looks and popularity during formal rush.

I went to MIT. I had the opportunity to meet women from all 5 NPC sororities represented there - not just through the superficial formal recruitment process, but also through serving as my chapter's Panhel rep and as a rho chi, through Order of Omega, through my studies, through other non-greek-related activities in which I was involved, and through living on a dorm floor where practically every woman was a sorority member.

Each of the five NPC sororities had its own way of choosing new members. I am only privy to my own chapter's selection process, and of course I cannot share that.

You find all types of people at MIT. The one thing we all have in common is that the admissions committee felt we had the potential to succeed academically in the pressure cooker that is MIT. But you find all types of women: the women with Barbie-doll figures, the women who would sooner die than wear makeup, the athletic types, the heavy women, the social types, the antisocial types, the women in the latest fashions, the goths. Among the men, you find everything from stereotypical jocks to stereotypical nerds.

The message that the MIT recruitment posters are trying to send is that you don't have to be a Barbie doll to join a sorority. If you're the woman who would rather spend time in lab than at a party, or you're less-than-perfect physically, or your entire wardrobe is filled with black clothing, you shouldn't let that scare you off from rush - you might be surprised.

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Originally Posted by aephi alum

I went to MIT. I had the opportunity to meet women from all 5 NPC sororities represented there - not just through the superficial formal recruitment process, but also through serving as my chapter's Panhel rep and as a rho chi, through Order of Omega, through my studies, through other non-greek-related activities in which I was involved, and through living on a dorm floor where practically every woman was a sorority member.

Each of the five NPC sororities had its own way of choosing new members. I am only privy to my own chapter's selection process, and of course I cannot share that.

You find all types of people at MIT. The one thing we all have in common is that the admissions committee felt we had the potential to succeed academically in the pressure cooker that is MIT. But you find all types of women: the women with Barbie-doll figures, the women who would sooner die than wear makeup, the athletic types, the heavy women, the social types, the antisocial types, the women in the latest fashions, the goths. Among the men, you find everything from stereotypical jocks to stereotypical nerds.

The message that the MIT recruitment posters are trying to send is that you don't have to be a Barbie doll to join a sorority. If you're the woman who would rather spend time in lab than at a party, or you're less-than-perfect physically, or your entire wardrobe is filled with black clothing, you shouldn't let that scare you off from rush - you might be surprised.

I think these posters are setting a great example in how to show that NPC is more than just parties and drinking! Hopefully, they'll convince more of the impressively smart women of MIT to join our ranks and use their intellect to further our missions.