Retro Recruitment

[AOE2AlphaPhi]

Someone asked me that during recruitment, and I was embarassed by the answer, because the chapter where I was was the only one I was interested in at that point. I already knew the girl who did it pretty well, so I don't know if that's better or not. I definately felt like I HAD to answer.

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by AOE2AlphaPhi

Someone asked me that during recruitment, and I was embarassed by the answer, because the chapter where I was was the only one I was interested in at that point. I already knew the girl who did it pretty well, so I don't know if that's better or not. I definately felt like I HAD to answer.

Well, at least if the chapter you're at is the only one you're interested in you can say "This is the only chapter that I am visiting that I am interested in pledging." I would think it's kind of hard to argue with that.

[AnatraAmore]

During recruitment my freshmen year (before I transferred), I was asked this question on Pref Night by the only chapter I was preffing... I answered that I was only attending that party that night. The girl who was preffing me told me that maybe that was best. I agreed with her, but the rest of the party was strained and awkward. In hindsight, I'm not sure why... but it was. I didn't receive a bid from that chapter - but it really was for the best. I transferred back home the next semester and found my real home! Moral of the story: Don't ask that question. It can make things very awkward.

[kchaptergphib]

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bravo, bravo, dgdramadawg; lovely thread

and as to the question about what other prefs you are attending, that would be a BIG FAT RECRUITMENT INFRACTION to ask a PNM such a thing at my school. yeah, it would be helpful when making bid lists, but you could never ask the PNM such a thing! shame! it's right up there with, "what does your daddy do for a living?"

[ForeverRoses]

Great thread!

As for asking what houses you go to- I don't know that there is a good way to answer it.

I rushed back in the day when you were given flowers at each house during prefs. So by the time you arrived at your third house, it was obvious what other houses you were preffing. We had two houses that gave pink roses- but one of the roses had a pearl hatpin stuck in the middle of it. A friend of mine took out the hatpin so that everyone thought she had preffed the other house.

Plus you had to sit through pref holding the flowers from anothe house!