Auburn Recruitment 2011 - 17 jewels!

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

But why then, don't we snark about our own NPC organizations when the MUTUAL SELECTION process fails a perfectly wonderful PNM who is dropped from the system completely? We don't, because God forbid, we say something terrible about the system that we are a part of already...

I think we're all reasonable enough to point out that the system isn't perfect on either side.

When you have that volume of people being shuffled in and out over a short period of time, both sides of the equation are going to make snap decisions which may or may not be rational, grounded in fact, etc. If we were to give every single person the thorough vetting, "rush" would last 3 months.

The difference, in my opinion is that the sororities have been participating in rush for years, so they likely have more practice at making quick decisions with better end results.

I'm not saying that you should 'settle' for anything, but what are the odds that in two 100+ member organizations, any young woman couldn't/wouldn't find her niche?

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I think we're all reasonable enough to point out that the system isn't perfect on either side.

When you have that volume of people being shuffled in and out over a short period of time, both sides of the equation are going to make snap decisions which may or may not be rational, grounded in fact, etc. If we were to give every single person the thorough vetting, "rush" would last 3 months.

The difference, in my opinion is that the sororities have been participating in rush for years, so they likely have more practice at making quick decisions with better end results.

I'm not saying that you should 'settle' for anything, but what are the odds that in two 100+ member organizations, any young woman couldn't/wouldn't find her niche?

I agree with most of this, but does the bold part give us license to snark at them like we have a superiority complex or something?

These 19-22 year old women are doing formal recruitment for (on average) 3 times total (soph, jr, sr year). Yes, there are advisors, yes, the wheel isn't invented over and over again, BUT they're still young and making rash decisions like the PNM's.

The system isn't perfect. I just hate seeing people kicked and snarked at when they're down. Furthermore, finding a "niche" is far different than finding a "home". They're 18 years old and under the impression they're looking for a "home".