Does GC have a disproportionately large number of PNM's who don't get bids?

[KSUViolet06]

I have made this observation before.

I find this to be particularly true with the more competitive schools.

My theory is that the PNMs who come here for advice on some of the big rush schools are at a disadvantage because they're not going to be as well prepared as some of the other girls who don't NEED the internet to help prep for recruitment (who maybe have friends/family/etc who have rushed at those schools).

Ex: if you're coming here asking "do I need recs? where do I get them from? what do I wear?" in like mid-June, you're not going to be as prepared as Suzy who has friends who have rushed at the same school, plenty of rec connections, etc. and doesn't have to ask those questions. And you probably are less likely to get a bid.

Does that make sense?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I have made this observation before.

I find this to be particularly true with the more competitive schools.

My theory is that the PNMs who come here for advice on some of the big rush schools are at a disadvantage because they're not going to be as well prepared as some of the other girls who don't NEED the internet to help prep for recruitment (who maybe have friends/family/etc who have rushed at those schools).

Ex: if you're coming here asking "do I need recs? where do I get them from? what do I wear?" in like mid-June, you're not going to be as prepared as Suzy who has friends who have rushed at the same school, plenty of rec connections, etc. and doesn't have to ask those questions. And you probably are less likely to get a bid.

Does that make sense?

This makes a LOT of sense. We get a lot of PNMs who are asking questions because they're the first in their family to go Greek, the first to rush NPC, the first to rush at an SEC school, whatever. We're far more likely to get the ones who are out of their element, because they're the ones googling about sororities. So we get

I suspect we get most of our actives and alumni because someone was searching for some answer to a question about GLOs as well.

[AnchorAlumna]

10% is quite a low percentage...but I'm from the SEC school of recruitment.
I think we just get a higher percentage of people asking "what happened" and searching for an answer. The ones who pledged don't have time to hang out here.
But statistically, the percentage of all PNMs posting here, pledigng or not, would be infantisimal...infintisimal...er, really really low.

[VandalSquirrel]

We also need to include the parents who come here and talk about their children. If we were going to only look at PNMs who post and report back in full their results, it may be different. I'm also hypothesizing that there may be people who make a thread, even write a full story, then realize they may not want to be outed and so are here with more than one username, and I don't really have a problem with that.

ETA: I can think of one instance a woman had a successful recruitment, posted her story, and her sisters did see her thread and they weren't too happy with what she wrote, though I can't remember if it was about their chapter, another chapter, or both. One rare situation, but it might not be bad to just post after the fact without some if you give enough identifying information or your school is very small.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I have made this observation before.

I find this to be particularly true with the more competitive schools.

My theory is that the PNMs who come here for advice on some of the big rush schools are at a disadvantage because they're not going to be as well prepared as some of the other girls who don't NEED the internet to help prep for recruitment (who maybe have friends/family/etc who have rushed at those schools).

Ex: if you're coming here asking "do I need recs? where do I get them from? what do I wear?" in like mid-June, you're not going to be as prepared as Suzy who has friends who have rushed at the same school, plenty of rec connections, etc. and doesn't have to ask those questions. And you probably are less likely to get a bid.

Does that make sense?

this!

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I have made this observation before.

I find this to be particularly true with the more competitive schools.

My theory is that the PNMs who come here for advice on some of the big rush schools are at a disadvantage because they're not going to be as well prepared as some of the other girls who don't NEED the internet to help prep for recruitment (who maybe have friends/family/etc who have rushed at those schools).

Ex: if you're coming here asking "do I need recs? where do I get them from? what do I wear?" in like mid-June, you're not going to be as prepared as Suzy who has friends who have rushed at the same school, plenty of rec connections, etc. and doesn't have to ask those questions. And you probably are less likely to get a bid.

Does that make sense?

This. PNMs who have family and social circle histories of being Greek don't need to go looking for advice on the intarwebz. If you know Greeks and/or are familiar with the school, you already have the resources.

I also think we do get a larger than usual proportion of PNMs who are simply awkward disasters and wouldn't do well in most highly social situations.