Faculty Search Committee = Sorority Recruitment

[SigKapSweetie]

Medical school and residency admissions committees are alarmingly like sorority recruitment. We even use basically the same software for the residency match as Panhellenics do for bid matching!

(And we do have t-shirts!)

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

Medical school and residency admissions committees are alarmingly like sorority recruitment. We even use basically the same software for the residency match as Panhellenics do for bid matching!

(And we do have t-shirts!)

My sister (she's a residency faculty member and ZTA alum) said exactly the same thing when she was explaining to me how residency matches work! I'll have to ask her if her program has t-shirts.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

Medical school and residency admissions committees are alarmingly like sorority recruitment. We even use basically the same software for the residency match as Panhellenics do for bid matching!

(And we do have t-shirts!)

Amen...I ran my program's post match scramble one year. It was remarkably like COB. We didn't have shirts, though.

[Kappamd]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

Medical school and residency admissions committees are alarmingly like sorority recruitment. We even use basically the same software for the residency match as Panhellenics do for bid matching!

(And we do have t-shirts!)

I'm in the middle of this process right now, and I agree completely. It's definitely given me flashbacks to my recruitment. I just hope my residency match works out as well as my recruitment did!

[AOII Angel]

You know the men that developed the match won a Nobel Prize this year?

[carnation]

Some fraternity member on the U of Arkansas newspaper staff wrote an article back in the day saying that he thought it'd be fun if all the departments had rush for choosing your major.

He pictured rush in the English Department, claiming that as you walked down the department halls, all the faculty members would be chanting, "HEY HEY HEY HEY" and then they'd break into, "Drink beer! Drink beer! Drink beer, gadzooks, drink beer! I won't drink beer with any old man who won't drink beer with a medieval lit man, go to hell! Oddsbodkins!" Then there would be dirty rush: "no, you don't want to pledge Ag, they're a bunch of nerds," etc.

For weeks, every Greek on campus made up versions of how his or her own department would rush-- with the cheers they'd do, how they'd dirty rush, and so on.