UIUC Rush Story

[jwsteele]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

The maximum number of chapters you can go to for first invite is 10. The OP was invited to 6.

I have a feeling that the internet may not be the *only* place she is expressing her opinions. Did it occur to anyone that GCers may be doing her a favor by calling her out on her attitude?

Or was she cut simply because she is a junior, like everybody predicted? Not even the least socially intelligent girls, from the ones I've met in my experience on campus, would say those things to girls faces or make it bluntly apparent...and if they did as a junior, I'd wager a guess that they'd have less than 6 parties to attend. Just like in the case of many many many other Greeks (and the shallow comments apply just as much to fraternity rush...can they play football, pull girls, are 6'3" and drink a lot?) shallow comments at the beginning show more about their naivete in the situation than it does about their character...give them a bit of time as actual sisters and they will understand it comes down to sisterhood. Give her some slack, I know some incredible girls who got incredible returns who expressed MUCH worse opinions than what she's said. It's not mature but it's certainly not rare.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by jwsteele

Or was she cut simply because she is a junior, like everybody predicted?

I find it hard to believe that even a Jr would get cut first round from 12/18 just for class status alone. UofI is competitive FOR THE MIDWEST, but it's stil the midwest, and not SEC.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I find it hard to believe that even a Jr would get cut first round from 12/18 just for class status alone. UofI is competitive FOR THE MIDWEST, but it's stil the midwest, and not SEC.

Actually, they can. I know several schools in the midwest that are that way. Not all of them, though.

[AlphaFrog]

Does anyone know if UofI uses the new release figures? That would make a difference as well.

[IlliniMeg]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Does anyone know if UofI uses the new release figures? That would make a difference as well.

Yes they do, they are using RFM- and I don't want to say much at all but I know my chapter is seeing things this year numbers wise that they haven't in the past.

This chapter is strong but not one of the "face" houses (as they are known) and in the middle of the pack and would take a junior. It seems that RFM is going what it is supposed to do - give everyone a chance - and I think we are going to be gearing up for a very interesting recruitment.

I'm seriously curious to see how this is going to play out!!! Both with the university and with LMV.

If you want more info - PM me. I just don't want to say anything on here that might get them in trouble or blow it before recruitment is over.

[sugar and spice]

I'm genuinely surprised at the posters on this board calling this girl out for being shallow and indiscreet, when most of them have been far meaner to a girl they don't even know, and, in one case, much more indiscreet, than she has been to anyone. I'm not really going to defend her shallow rushing criteria, but I also doubt she's making cuts based on toenail polish. More likely, I'm guessing that she made her decisions based on the total package -- personality, appearance, reputation, conversations, their perceived interest in her -- and is simply being more candid about the ones she's chosen to dismiss. I'm sure there are some girls in the face houses with chipped pedicures, too.

I also think it's absurd that you guys are all threatening her with a bad rush because she was candid about her choices on the internet. True, it's never going to hurt you to be discreet in a rush thread. But the chances that it will hurt you at a school like U of I are slim. Here's why:

1) At big Northern schools, girls are too busy to check up on GC in time to make cuts. Membership selection meetings are held immediately after parties in order to maximize the likelihood of actually remember all the 1200 girls that went through. By the time a rushee has time to post her story on GC, MSM is already taking place. If the sorority women have any time to log onto GC, it won't be until after membership selection has taken place -- so even if a rushee suffers cuts because of what she wrote on GC, it wouldn't possibly be until after Second Round (for things she wrote after First Round parties). Therefore, those of you who are speculating that this girl got dropped because of what she wrote on GC? Highly unlikely at this point. Furthermore, the big Northern schools tend to hold recruitment while school is in session, making it increasingly unlikely that any active sorority member is going to have the time to pop onto GC, figure out what a PNM wrote about her sorority, decode which rushee out of 1200 this girl actually is, and convince her sorority to drop her. She'll be too busy doing homework.

2) Northern rushes do not tend to have the large alum presence that Southern rushes do. My house (at a school very similar to Illinois) had exactly three alumnae involved with our recruitment -- our alum advisor, our alum recruitment advisor, and one other one I forget. We didn't have alumnae calling the house day and night asking for updates with recruitment or anything. If an alum had called up the house saying, "Some girl wrote something bad about your house on the internet, you should cut her!" we would have thought that alumna was a psychopath. Unless you're one of the few alumnae who is really involved with the chapter on a day-to-day basis, the chance that the chapter is going to allow you to dictate who to cut is almost non-existent. Alums don't have the kind of influence in the north that they have in the south.

3) Rush at schools like this is simply TOO big to know who this girl is. Yes, she's a junior transfer, but I can pretty much guarantee you that there is at least one other junior transfer rushing this year. Sometimes rushees who post rush threads like this leave other identifying details (clothes, hometowns, majors), but as far as I can tell, this one hasn't -- and any house that cuts every junior transfer student "just in case" would prove themselves to be completely ridiculous.

So yeah, the chances that an indiscreet rush thread is going to hurt a U of I rushee? Pretty much non-existent.


That said, I hope this makes it obvious to all PNMs posting here that -- and this goes even for plenty of the more discreet rush threads, too -- even if you use code names, it is obvious to anyone familiar with your campus's Greek system which group is which. When girls from my school used to post rush threads, I'd instant message my GC buddies and tell them exactly which house was which, just from the recruitment thread descriptions. That's why I think that it's much more important not to post things that might identify YOU rather than things that won't identify the houses. The houses are identifiable to anyone who knows your campus anyway, and with GC, you never can tell who's going to be offended by what.

[ZTAngel]

Originally Posted by sugar and spice

I'm genuinely surprised at the posters on this board calling this girl out for being shallow and indiscreet, when most of them have been far meaner to a girl they don't even know, and, in one case, much more indiscreet, than she has been to anyone. I'm not really going to defend her shallow rushing criteria, but I also doubt she's making cuts based on toenail polish. More likely, I'm guessing that she made her decisions based on the total package -- personality, appearance, reputation, conversations, their perceived interest in her -- and is simply being more candid about the ones she's chosen to dismiss. I'm sure there are some girls in the face houses with chipped pedicures, too.

Clappity clap clap. I agree.

Come on y'all. Have you never met someone before and thought "wow, her outfit kinda sucks" or something to that effect? We all pass judgment on people. And I'm sure most of us even did it during rush. We may have walked into a house and said we would never join it for completely shallow reasons. I think there's even a thread in the recruitment forum dedicated to stupid reasons why we didn't want to join a certain house. I sure am glad I never posted my rush story when I was a freshman because I'll admit right here that I thought some very shallow things when I went through.

I agree that maybe she needs to be more discreet because she's posting her story on GC. People have odd ways of finding out who you are without you giving any information. Still, wishing a bad rush on someone just because she didn't like a certain house based on what you think are shallow reasons....not cool.

ETA: There is such a thread about dumb (and some shallow) reasons why we cut a house. http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=20725

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by jwsteele

Or was she cut simply because she is a junior, like everybody predicted? Not even the least socially intelligent girls, from the ones I've met in my experience on campus, would say those things to girls faces or make it bluntly apparent...and if they did as a junior, I'd wager a guess that they'd have less than 6 parties to attend. Just like in the case of many many many other Greeks (and the shallow comments apply just as much to fraternity rush...can they play football, pull girls, are 6'3" and drink a lot?) shallow comments at the beginning show more about their naivete in the situation than it does about their character...give them a bit of time as actual sisters and they will understand it comes down to sisterhood. Give her some slack, I know some incredible girls who got incredible returns who expressed MUCH worse opinions than what she's said. It's not mature but it's certainly not rare.

There is a junior quota this year. If she is getting released, it has nothing to do with her class standing.