UIUC Rush Story

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

I don't think PNMs choose a chapter based on it's philanthropy. For some PNMs, a chapter's philanthropy might have personal meaning (i.e. Mom had breast cancer or she is interested in becoming a cardiologist), but if the PNM doesn't click with the chapter, she won't join just because she likes their philanthropy. If it were based on philanthropy alone, I wouldn't have chosen my chapter. Besides, if a cause is that important to a PNM, she can always get involved with a group to raise money/volunteer for that cause.

Actually, there was a girl in my pledge class that was a diabetic, and had been nearly all her life. Our philanthrophy was Juvenile Diabetes. She always said that was the reason she pledged. I can only take her word for it.

[MVisKD]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Actually, there was a girl in my pledge class that was a diabetic, and had been nearly all her life. Our philanthrophy was Juvenile Diabetes. She always said that was the reason she pledged. I can only take her word for it.

Surely she liked the girls in the chapter as well?

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by MVisKD

Surely she liked the girls in the chapter as well?

I think so!

[UGAalum94]

Are people wishing her a bad rush or just expecting her to have one based on what she has said and the standards she is using? We think her results will be disappointing to her more than they'd be disappointing to us.

Here's what I think we are going with: often the very most desirable chapters are the ones who are most attractive and have great rushers with cute personalities, great pedicures, and campus involvement.

These are also, unfortunately for LMV, the chapters least likely to bid a junior, unless the junior quota/free juniors really changes things.

So, when she's writing off chapters left and right for being boring and so-so, she's setting herself up, and when she and others defend the "we all judge by appearances" outlook and "all PNMS are superficial," which I don't dispute but don't think are really worth defending either, she will basically face a pretty good probability of getting a bid that she's already talked herself out of.

On the upside, if she is real, she's now showing the forsight to hold her posts until she knows the outcome.

One other thing: I don't think anyone in this thread was "threatening" to expose her on campus and ruin her rush, they are warning her how easy it would apparently be, and the poster than I think was being accused of being less discreet is an alumna. Barring saying something offensive to her group, she's got nothing to worry about.