Is it all about looks?

[adpiucf]

Of course looks matter during recruitment. The recruiters are all 18-22 year old girls. Superficial matters. Even in job interviews, the attractive people are more likely to get the job.

[FleurGirl]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

Of course looks matter during recruitment. The recruiters are all 18-22 year old girls. Superficial matters. Even in job interviews, the attractive people are more likely to get the job.

I think that's only true as far as it is with interviewing for a job. Honestly, if a girl is put together and obviously put some thought into her outfit and did her hair and makeup, she looks like she cares and wants to be there. If a girl shows up in sweats, she instantly looks like she doesn't care enough to try -- if that's true for recruitment, what kind of a sister will she be? It's the same thing as interviewing for a job; if you look sloppy, it's hard to believe that your work won't be sloppy. If a chapter is going to cut you because they don't like your hair/weight/face, that's probably not a chapter full of the supportive kind of women you should be looking for.

[28StGreek]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

Of course looks matter during recruitment. The recruiters are all 18-22 year old girls. Superficial matters. Even in job interviews, the attractive people are more likely to get the job.

I would think that looks being a factor, matter more in a competitive environment (either sorority recruitment or job recruitment). I am just making assumptions here, but at the schools with very competitive rush mentalities, aren't a vast majority of PNMs going to have stellar GPAs, amazing extracurriculars, multiple recs, and during the ice water teas stage of rush, possibly portraying similar personalities due to the limited time for conversation (engaging, polite, and enthusiastic about going Greek)?

Then wouldn't the next tie-breaker going down the list be looks/appearances?

Since it would be very difficult to distinguish yourself from the other PNMs purely on Grades, activities, recs; unless you were perfect-As since elementary school, solved world poverty, and had a rec from the GLO's national president.

I have read, and its been mentioned quite a few times on GC, the studies that if it were down to two job applicants with equal/similar qualifications, the job almost always goes to the 'more attractive' or skinnier person.

Until we get to a stage where magazines with skinny cover girls aren't being bought, I don't think those attitudes will change in society. Of course there are exceptions, Nigella Lawson is the first to spring to mind. She is incredibly successful, and she appears to never have let her bodyshape be an obstacle. (I understand her family connections may have been very useful, so she may not be the best example, but I couldn't think of anyone else. Oprah I suppose?)