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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
On the PNM side, I had no idea what was actually a liability, too. For example, we've talked here about pledging a 16-year-old, which I thought made me stand out in a good way, and was probably just the opposite.
I think there are a lot of things that fall into this category, like "oh, I'm in band; that shows I'm involved and have school spirit" translates to "oh, she's in marching band, that means she'll always have conflicts with recruitment" or "my brother is an XYZ, that shows my family supports Greek life" translates to "her brother is an XYZ, that means she probably has her heart set on ABC".
Maybe I was just the most clueless rushee on earth, but I think that, if this is the stuff you are supposed to tell your rec-writers, it's normal to think these are all positives.
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^^^This times one million. Every single conversation I had during the first round of recruitment went something like this:
Rusher: Where are you from?
Me: Rhode Island!
Rusher: Wow, that's so far away! What made you want to come down to Clemson?
Me: Well, I've always loved the warm weather, and I'd always wanted to try marching band because it's something we don't have much of back home BUT I'M NOT IN THE BAND NOW BECAUSE IT WAS A HUGE TIME COMMITMENT AND I WANTED TO BRANCH OUT.
I had to emphasize that I wasn't doing marching band so that the girls didn't hear "band" and immediately assume that I was going to be too busy with band to show up to anything in the fall semester, including recruitment. A girl went through recruitment last year which falls smack in the middle of nightly band practice leading up to the huge season-opening performance and I will never forget her running across the field during the middle of practice in a nice dress with beautiful blonde curls in her hair to then put her clarinet together and march with the rest of us. Clemson's feature twirler is one of my favorite pledge sisters and a girl that by all appearances every chapter should have been fighting over, but she said she could only pref two chapters because of her busy band schedule (as someone who only preffed two chapters simply because she was cut by the other ten for whatever reason, I didn't feel quite so bad
). Campus involvement like that can be awesome, but if a chapter feels that it needs more chapter-focused sisters or is already involved enough on campus any PNM with a conflict like that probably isn't going to be kept around.
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