New Brutally Honest Recruitment Thread! - Page 3

epchick · #1 01-08-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

Ack! Maybe my reading comprehension is down or my mind is going but I didn't realize this was a live recruitment.

You weren't the only one. I thought the OP had already gone through recruitment. But i'll be honest and say I assumed it after I read the OP has another name on GC.

I do hope the OP comes back and writes her recruitment story...it would be nice to read an ACTUAL brutally honest story.

axoalum · #2 01-08-2009, 10:04 PM

Don't go away completely! Let us know how things turn out. I am crossing my fingers for you!!

BetteDavisEyes · #3 01-08-2009, 10:15 PM

Dammit. I was looking forward to your story. I had it earmarked too.

I hope you do go through recruitment and find genuine girls there that make you feel like you belong in their sisterhood. I'm sorry some asses here on GC scared you off.

Good luck and if you do log on sometime after recruitment is over, I hope you let us know how it turned out.

babydoll2012 · #4 01-08-2009, 10:12 PM

Alright, I'll come back after recruitment and finish the story, no matter what the outcome. Sound good?

agzg · #5 01-08-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by babydoll2012

Alright, I'll come back after recruitment and finish the story, no matter what the outcome. Sound good?

Sounds great. Good luck.

ep - yeah I suppose you and I both ASSumed wrong.

#6 01-08-2009, 10:16 PM

Thank you! I hate to start reading these and never hear what happens in the end.

GammaPhi88 · #7 01-08-2009, 11:04 PM

I like the idea of a brutally honest recruitment story, but I have to agree, I think they are better used once the PNM has an outcome. I forgot that there are people on GC crazy enough to actively impact a PNM's rush, not simply read about it!

annabella · #8 01-09-2009, 02:21 AM

Too bad about the whole crazy people on the internet thing. No matter what, whether it's retro by a few weeks or a few decades, a retro thread will be biased based on the knowledge the storyteller has gained, consciously or not. The real-time threads are interesting because even if someone isn't a good writer, most evoke the emotion somewhat of looking at your schedule for the first time, cut from your favorite house, etc. It's the same reason people are willing to read blogs.

srmom · #9 01-09-2009, 06:06 PM

babydoll - good luck! I wish you the best!!

UGAalum94 · #10 01-09-2009, 08:12 PM

I wasn't doing any scaring because I was looking forward to the thread, but I can see why people did.

Who are the users who have had real life impacts from GC recruitment threads? The only one I can think of was Ocalagirl, and with that situation, I think the real life impact had more to do with the suspicion of online ritual manual collecting than in anything she wrote about recruitment, but maybe I'm wrong. Since the OP here isn't coming back until after recruitment, will some of you who know of other cases summarize or post links to their threads?

To me, posting a brutally honest real time thread is mainly bad because it might kept you from being happy with your results if you end up with a bid to a chapter you presented as "lesser" throughout your thread, ETA which I think is why Annabell likes real time better. I agree that if you know your outcome, you are a whole lot less likely to be completely brutally honest.

EATA: I totally said two things stupidly here. Let me be clear: first I don't doubt that bad outcomes have occurred; I just want to hear about them. (thanks for the link, KSU) Second, I didn't mean to suggest that Annabell likes people to be unhappy with their results. I meant that she likes the way non-knowing the outcome means people are more honest.

KSUViolet06 · #11 01-09-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAalum94

For the record, I wasn't doing any scaring because I was looking forward to the thread, but I can see why people did.

Since the OP here isn't coming back until after recruitment, will some of you who know of other cases summarize or post links to their threads?

I actually asked this question before in this thread (it's been a few years):

http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=77742

In short, yes there have been, and there have been more than just liltrixx/Ocalagirl.

I recall a PNM who posted a rush thread, and said some things about a chapter she preffed, but ended up getting a bid there. At some point during her NM period, a chapter member found her thread and all the stuff she'd said about the sorority. They weren't very happy about it. She ended up depeldging. I'm pretty sure the thread was deleted.

There have been many, but alot of the girls end up deleting posts/threads so people can't find them.

Also, it's not just what's said on GC that has come back to haunt PNMs, add LJ community posts, Facebook group posts, etc. to the list as well.

#12 01-09-2009, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I recall a PNM who posted a rush thread, and said some things about a chapter she preffed, but ended up getting a bid there. At some point during her NM period, a chapter member found her thread and all the stuff she'd said about the sorority. They weren't very happy about it. She ended up depeldging. I'm pretty sure the thread was deleted.

There have been many, but alot of the girls end up deleting posts/threads so people can't find them.

Nope, thread still here, but whatever she said to piss off the Chi Omegas has been deleted, obviously, because there's no trace of negativity in what's left of the thread.

She's never publicly said why she de-pledged, but one of the mods who had an "in" at her campus in the South found out from a member of that sorority about what happened after this PNM accepted her bid.

epchick · #13 01-09-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Who are the users who have had real life impacts from GC recruitment threads?

I have. The thing was I never disclosed which sororities were which (although it wasn't hard to tell), but i had history with one sorority and a Rho Chi figured it out & told her sisters. I didn't really care, nor do I care now.

ETA: haha..i just noticed I posted in that link KSU posted about this as well. Oh well, i'm not ashamed of it. I didn't have an awful recruitment experience (i did get a bid to a great sorority) it just didn't work out. And now i'm glad it didn't, cause i can't imagine being anything but what i am.

AlphaDeltaDelta · #14 01-10-2009, 05:48 AM

This all seems so needlessly complicated... I don't like that people aren't allowed to have opinions. I could see if they were posting anything about the rituals or actively bashing a certain sorority, but most of what I've seen has been innocent.

#15 01-10-2009, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaDeltaDelta

This all seems so needlessly complicated... I don't like that people aren't allowed to have opinions. I could see if they were posting anything about the rituals or actively bashing a certain sorority, but most of what I've seen has been innocent.

You may not have seen a problem with it, but to a lot more people, calling their chapter "the fat girls" or the "slutty girls" is pretty offensive. Personally, I agree with you, and I think she should have kept going, but it's better to practice discretion than to compromise her rush experience. Priority here is for the OP to have a successful rush, not so we can be entertained on GC.