The Differences in Sorority & Fraternity Rush: Why?

[agzg]

Higher parental involvement is not indicative of the system being flawed or overbearing (in my mind) - it's indicative of some people's parents needing to mtob.

PLENTY of women have gone through formal, informal, COR, minimally and partially structured recruitment with absolutely no "help" from their parents beyond what would be given to the average fraternity man (mostly notice that they did or did not recieve a bid and to what chapter). On the other end, PLENTY of men have gone through fraternity recruitment with overbearing mothers/fathers.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by agzg

Higher parental involvement is not indicative of the system being flawed or overbearing (in my mind) - it's indicative of some people's parents needing to mtob.

PLENTY of women have gone through formal, informal, COR, minimally and partially structured recruitment with absolutely no "help" from their parents beyond what would be given to the average fraternity man (mostly notice that they did or did not recieve a bid and to what chapter). On the other end, PLENTY of men have gone through fraternity recruitment with overbearing mothers/fathers.

Psst...we're talking about NPC/NIC 'Parental Bodies" - not PNM's actual parents.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Psst...we're talking about NPC/NIC 'Parental Bodies" - not PNM's actual parents.

Chalk it up to it being Monday and me being jealous of k_s with his glass of wine.

FWIW, I went through (dirty and disgusting and they should be ashamed) COR, only looked at one chapter, and never went to a meet the greeks event. My pledge class was actually quite large - as big or bigger than many that a group on my campus would get through formal recruitment. However, we had a lot of drops, as did a number of chapters on my campus.

Actually, I'd be interested in seeing the drop rates of campuses that do a more fraternity-style COR period in one semester versus the drop rates in pledge classes that go through formal recruitment in the other... not that there's a correlation but it might be interesting. That could totally be a pipe dream.

Plus, the variables (deferred? non-deferred?) are too many.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by agzg

FWIW, I went through (dirty and disgusting and they should be ashamed) COR, only looked at one chapter, and never went to a meet the greeks event. My pledge class was actually quite large - as big or bigger than many that a group on my campus would get through formal recruitment. However, we had a lot of drops, as did a number of chapters on my campus.

Were you a first semester freshman?

If so, did this occur less than a month after you set foot on campus?