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Good ideas, gee_ess. I wish we could have alum seminars. The numbers have been head-spinning...for instance, what blondie_93 said about Phi Mu, ADPi, Zeta, and KD in the Southeast is so very true, as even chapters at small schools are seeing more legacies than they can take.
Recruitment is such a numbers game now. I don't see how it can ever change. But--no matter how people dress it up with new names, the PNMs are being judged, like they always have. Greek women know this and this is part of their hurt when their daughter is cut by their legacy sorority or by others--their daughter was judged and must have come up short somehow.
The upset moms are not unique to this time. My mother remembers it from the forties and if anyone has read Prudence Mackintosh's essays about Texas rush in the sixties, they probably remember the part about angry moms packing up their daughters after a bad rush and saying, "Come on, honey, you're transferring to SMU this minute, they have delayed rush." And I'm told that many women back then made sure that they'd been accepted to both schools in case they didn't like their results.
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