DBB's Retro Recruitment Thread

[irishpipes]

I truly understand (as you now know) how much that must have sucked. Isn't it great to feel like out of a couple of thousand people you are the one that they managed to screw up? What are the odds?

[violetpretty]

There were two girls in my group when I was a Rho Gamma this spring who had computer errors in their schedules. Well not really computer errors, human errors entering the data into the computer (not my fault I'd like to add). This was bad news turned good though, instead of the other way around.

[CrimsonBlues]

The year I went through, there was some major computer error (most likely human error, since computers don't really make errors on their own), and a ton of girls ended up being released from what ended up becoming my sorority for pref - myself included. I ended up accepting a snap bid from them, and while I was happy to be in the house and felt welcomed, I always had a nagging insecurity that they didn't really want me there since they had "cut" me. It wasn't until pref night my junior year, when the schedules got messed up yet again and a lot of girls ended up released from houses they had been invited back to or sent to the wrong parties, that I overheard one of the seniors complaining about what had happened two years earlier. That compelled me to finally ask about it - I had been way too ashamed to ask any of the older sisters about it before, and the mess that was their recruitment my freshman year was such a sore spot that it had never come up otherwise.

[FSUZeta]

crimsonblue,
i think that the greeklife advisor should have taken responsibility and issued apologies to each pnm who was effected by the computer error. how awful that you felt like you were a "quick addition" for two years! i am glad that you found out the truth.