Ranking/Scoring of PNMs between parties.

[Entchen]

Really? It's that big of a deal to discuss how you do delibs on an anonymous forum?

Well, I don't mind sharing. After each day of rush, we sit around in our living room, and go through a powerpoint with each PNM's name and picture (usually just their facebook picture or one they supply - it's just a reminder of who they are, since we meet so many people. We don't facebook stalk you and then talk about how your picture is terrible or anything like that, don't worry!). People who know the girl or met her during rush give the girl in question a ranking from 1 (terrible) to 5 (amazing), and then explain why they gave that score. We always try to end with a positive, and then everyone in the sisterhood, even those that haven't met the girl, give her a score 1-5 based on what they've heard. Our New Member Selection chair then adds up the points each PNM got, and the more points, the higher on our list she goes. Also, if you have a specific reason why you would feel uncomfortable with a certain girl in the house, you can talk to our president privately, and she will be cut, but that happens fairly infrequently.

I believe that most of the sororities on my campus do something similar. I know one national does not do delibs at all here. Each sister will fill out a slip of paper for every PNM they met during rush or know from previous interaction and give her a score 1-5 in two categories, but I can't remember what those are. I do know 5,5 is the highest, 1,1 is awful. Anyway, they do this during the break between each party, so they end up getting to go home much earlier than the rest of us, but they also don't get to discuss a girl if they have questions. At another national house, the voting options are basically Yes-No. If a girl gets more yesses than nos, she is invited for the next round. Not sure what they do to rank after pref night. More yesses = high on list? Some houses do "bump groups" - a group of 5 or 6 girls who will pass PNMs only among each other during rush. Then, after the parties, they'll do mini-delibs within their bump group, and just talk about the girls their bump group met with. They can submit a form to the NMS chair if they know a girl previously and want to give an opinion.

Obviously, this is only the way we do selection at my school. We don't usually have more than 300 girls rushing, so I have no idea what the process would be at a bigger school where going through each girl at delibs might not be practical (it takes us long enough as it is!).