Cut from all Chapters at UGA

[Titchou]

OK, the recs and the grades got you to round 2. They wanted to see what else was there. However, you didn't get you to round 3. You should have been selling yourself. Made your resume come alive to the person. I was chairman of the Relay for Life at my HS and I would like to work with it again. How active is your chapter in that event? I volumteered with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in my home town and I know that is your group's philanthropy. What all do you do with/for them? I was in charge of XXX for them.

Etc, etc, etc. This was your downfall. You didn't sell yourself....

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Titchou

OK, the recs and the grades got you to round 2. They wanted to see what else was there. However, you didn't get you to round 3. You should have been selling yourself. Made your resume come alive to the person. I was chairman of the Relay for Life at my HS and I would like to work with it again. How active is your chapter in that event? I volumteered with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in my home town and I know that is your group's philanthropy. What all do you do with/for them? I was in charge of XXX for them.

Etc, etc, etc. This was your downfall. You didn't sell yourself....

I know that you have a lot of experience with recruitment, but why are you pretending to know what happened here in a specific case?

UGA is competitive enough that it might come down to something superficial and silly. A friends of mine's daughter got released the year before last, and she was a likeable girl with great high school involvement and a wonderful personality, but she just wasn't very cute. She was released after second, I'd say through absolutely no fault of her own.

There's no real way to know why any particular PNM was released until we've actually met her or done MS.

[pbear19]

I think we all mostly agree that it wasn't necessary for Hartofsec to bring up Titchou's chapter. That wasn't right. But you know what? Neither was this:

Originally Posted by Titchou

OK, the recs and the grades got you to round 2. They wanted to see what else was there. However, you didn't get you to round 3. You should have been selling yourself. [...]

Etc, etc, etc. This was your downfall. You didn't sell yourself....

In any other thread, we'd be tripping all over ourselves trying to tell a PNM that we can't explain to her why she was released. Yet here we have an alumna who is making a very specific point of telling a PNM that she did something wrong. Something that is really quite abstract and that there is absolutely no way of knowing from a couple posts on the internet.

It is absolutely possible for a PNM to be given general advice on how to improve her chances for a second recruitment attempt, without digging into the specifics of why she thinks she was released. It's been done on a gazillion other threads. The kind of uninvited criticism above is a bit harsh, especially when it can be phrased in a more generic way without assuming that this PNM had this particular problem.