Retro Recruitment

[violetpretty]

Did you rank after each round and get a schedule generated for you or did you get your invites in between rounds and then decide where you want to go if you were invited by more chapters than the number of parties for the next round?

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

Did you rank after each round and get a schedule generated for you or did you get your invites in between rounds and then decide where you want to go if you were invited by more chapters than the number of parties for the next round?

At UGA, it's "mutual selection," meaning that the girls rank the chapters and the chapters make selections and the girls receive a schedule based on the results thereof. I don't remember whether we had to attend all of the parties on our schedules after round one (I did anyway; I thought it was just rude not to go). I think the idea is that if a girl gets invited to, for instance, 8 parties and can only attend 6, she will want to attend the houses she ranked highest that have invited her back. The best part of this system for me was that it eliminated time back at the dorm with girls telling me what I ought to do... since I didn't know a lot about rush I was very impressionable and they might have convinced me to make decisions differently than I did.

[violetpretty]

Can we know which chapters are out of the running?

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

Can we know which chapters are out of the running?

The houses out of the running after round one cuts were:
Alpha Delta Pi (Marian Paroo)
Phi Mu (Roxie Hart)
Chi Omega (Lois Lane)
Sigma Kappa (Julie Jordan)
Kappa Delta (Carrie Pipperidge)
Zeta Tau Alpha (Eva Peron)
Pi Beta Phi (Charity Hope Valentine)
Delta Delta Delta (Anne Egerman)
Alpha Omicron Pi (Eliza Doolittle)

[susan314]

Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

The houses out of the running after round one cuts were:
Alpha Delta Pi (Marian Paroo)
Phi Mu (Roxie Hart)
Chi Omega (Lois Lane)
Sigma Kappa (Julie Jordan)
Kappa Delta (Carrie Pipperidge)
Zeta Tau Alpha (Eva Peron)
Pi Beta Phi (Charity Hope Valentine)
Delta Delta Delta (Anne Egerman)
Alpha Omicron Pi (Eliza Doolittle)

So AGD is still in the picture...yippee.

(Even though we know how the story ends, its still fun to root for your own house to make it far. )

[dgdramadawg]

We just got our invites for round three (house tours). I have only been invited to four out of the possible six:

Dolly Levi
Janet Weiss
Kate Monster
Cora Hooper

I'm back at the dorm right now because I don't have a party first thing this morning. I'm really surprised and upset that I was cut by my top three houses (Margo Channing, Magnolia Hawkins, and Babe Williams). It makes me really nervous about what my pref schedule will look like because I only have two houses left that I would consider pledging and I'm not even totally sure yet about them. Today I am going to be putting my best foot forward with Dolly Levi and Janet Weiss so I can really get a feel for whether I will be happy in either (or both) of those houses.

I wonder who is going back to Margo Channing and Magnolia Hawkins instead of me. I hope they are happy there.

[violetpretty]

Oh no! Well sometimes it's the chapters that you initially feel so-so about that you really end up liking in the end.