What makes a school recruitment competitive?

[Mevara]

Originally Posted by 33girl

It is possible at ANY school for a PNM to get completely dropped after the first day - even if there are "lower tier" chapters , even if there are groups not at total, even if the rush is very NON competitive. Some people just aren't meant to be Greek.

And guess what, there are women who get cut by "lower tier" chapters who are devastated, even if they get bids from the "top tier." There are also "lower tier" chapters who cut women who the "top tier" is dying to pledge. It's not as cut and dried as you seem to think it is (i.e. the struggling chapter takes all the leftovers without even thinking about it).

Please don't misinterpret what I say. I did not say struggling chapters take everyone and PNMs only want "top tier" chapters. I wanted to know how people decide that school xyz has a competitive recruitment versus school abc. How was it decided?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Mevara

Please don't misinterpret what I say. I did not say struggling chapters take everyone and PNMs only want "top tier" chapters. I wanted to know how people decide that school xyz has a competitive recruitment versus school abc. How was it decided?

Thank you for clarifying. It really came off badly in your original post.

Competitive usually means (among other things) you MUST have recs and will get heavily cut without them (no matter what the school or website says). Other hallmarks of a competitive recruitment are:

-They could charge an insane cost for it and tons of girls would still sign up.
-The school and Panhel has to do very little PR for rush - girls are chomping at the bit to join.