After Several Years: What Do You Think of the New Release Figures?

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Originally Posted by bu1904

Though it is unfortunate RFM doesn't have much to do with it. Truth is most of these flaky girls would have probably gotten cut from the top chapters anyway. The problem is with the types of girls in this generation.
Now I just graduated from college this year so these new girls are in my generation but I dont understand the way they think. I was a rho gam this past recruitment and I have noticed a lot of these girls feel entitled to receive bids to chapters they want. And these arent the girls that are legacies and have 3 or 4 recs, these are the girls that just decided they to go through yesterday cause all of their friends were doing it or registered for recruitment late even though they knew they want to rush before school even started. I dont know how many times we kept saying keep an open mind. My sorority wasnt my first choice or my second for that matter but I gave it a chance and it turned out to be the best group for me. Until girls learn to keep an open mind there will always be retention issues. Cause closed minded of girls never make good members.

Yup. I was going to say RFM is working well at schools where the girls don't have their heads up their asses, but this is a nicer way of putting it.

The kind of girls bu1904 is talking about just can't deal with the fact that they've gone from being Miss Everything of their high school (oftentimes with very little effort) to, in their minds, failing. This is another reason I think deferred rush is better. You learn that lesson a bit more slowly over a semester, rather than getting gobsmacked with it before you've even taken a college class. And on the other side, the girls who WEREN'T a big deal in HS get a chance to reinvent themselves. Everybody wins.