Better Late Than Never...My Philly Fall '08 Recruitment Story - Page 2

GammaDelt · #16 06-12-2009, 05:43 PM

Excuse me....WHERE are the Eagles? Lol.

kiteflyersmom · #17 06-12-2009, 08:13 PM

I am never able to figure out the school. But for once, I think I did (Penn????). If I don't have it right, I will go back to my seat with my head down......

I think the OP may have thought better about continuing this after giving away so much information.

lovespink88 · #18 06-12-2009, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by kiteflyersmom

I am never able to figure out the school. But for once, I think I did (Penn????). If I don't have it right, I will go back to my seat with my head down......

I think the OP may have thought better about continuing this after giving away so much information.

I think you're right about the giving too much info away part. However, I'm 99.9% sure of what the school is, and it's not Penn.

(Don't worry, I'm bad at knowing the schools too

. The only reason I figured it out this time was because my job hasn't started, and I have LOTS of time on my hands...so I decided to try to figure it out, since there were just a few schools, and she gave some big hints!)

ASUADPi · #19 06-13-2009, 11:59 AM

I never figure out the schools.

But I'm guessing that the reason the OP isn't posting is because she was scared off.

kiteflyersmom · #20 06-13-2009, 11:28 PM

On the other hand, maybe the OP should continue, given that there are people like me that can't figure out the school, even if their life depended on it.

als463 · #21 06-14-2009, 07:36 PM

I'm from Pennsylvania and I'm thinking she meant...Drexel. Does anyone else agree? Its really not too hard to figure certain schools out in certain states because of the information people give out. I think the OP should still go on and share her experience (without putting other chapters down, of course).

violetpretty · #22 06-14-2009, 08:18 PM

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I'm from Pennsylvania and I'm thinking she meant...***. Does anyone else agree? Its really not too hard to figure certain schools out in certain states because of the information people give out. I think the OP should still go on and share her experience (without putting other chapters down, of course).

It's kind of bad form to out the school unless the OP does so or wants people to guess.

33girl · #23 06-14-2009, 09:23 PM

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I think the OP should still go on and share her experience (without putting other chapters down, of course).

Too late for that.

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76ers: The last house. I was getting tired from spending 45 minutes each at all the previous houses. The house was nice from what I could see but they weren’t even giving tours of the individual rooms like all the other houses did. The girls seemed a bit odd and everyone in my group came to the consensus that this was the least desirable house. We just stood in the back and munched on their food and avoided talking for the last 20 minutes we had to be there.

LAblondeGPhi · #24 06-16-2009, 03:12 AM

Come back! I hate this teasing, and there's no excuse...

Unless... the Fall '08 story ended up with the OP not joining any house, and she's planning to go through recruitment again in the fall, in which case the lack of discretion has forever harmed her chances of getting her super favorite chapter in the fall. Oooh, plot twist.

You know, I could just make things up until you come back...

OhSeven · #25 06-16-2009, 10:18 AM

Aw I thought this was going to be an interesting thread. I think it's lame that people had to post her school and kind of scare her away from sharing what could have been a good, interesting story that probably at least meant something to her.

LAblondeGPhi · #26 06-16-2009, 11:35 AM

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Aw I thought this was going to be an interesting thread. I think it's lame that people had to post her school and kind of scare her away from sharing what could have been a good, interesting story that probably at least meant something to her.

Ya, I agree. It seems unusual that her school would be outed so quickly.

ComradesTrue · #27 06-16-2009, 01:31 PM

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Ya, I agree. It seems unusual that her school would be outed so quickly.

So quickly as her own original post?

I agree that it is poor form for anyone to out a poster's school, and such actions should not be tolerated. However, as someone who has never even been to Pennsylvania I was able to figure out her school very quickly. When you post what city your university is in, mention the time of year of your recruitment, and then post how many chapters there are, you have outed yourself. Plain and simple.

I would have a little more sympathy for her had she not made an incredibly rude remark about one of the chapters. Recognizing that a house is not for you is one thing. Being rude during a recruitment party and then making disparaging comments about its members on a public internet board... totally different story.

OhSeven · #28 06-16-2009, 01:44 PM

Poor jetage.

She probably just didn't know any better. If I were writing my own recruitment story I would probably include at least the state and time of year, and I don't think there's any way to get out of how many chapters are present. A lot of freshmen/new girls make mistakes like that. I mean, people have told me that back when they were freshmen if they had a hard time deciding they'd rank sororities during rush by how pretty the house/suite was or if they liked how the letters looked. Lol. Oh well. I wish we could have read the rest of this as a PHL person myself but it is what it is.

texas*princess · #29 06-16-2009, 02:01 PM

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So quickly as her own original post?

I agree that it is poor form for anyone to out a poster's school, and such actions should not be tolerated. However, as someone who has never even been to Pennsylvania I was able to figure out her school very quickly. When you post what city your university is in, mention the time of year of your recruitment, and then post how many chapters there are, you have outed yourself. Plain and simple.

This is so true. Some people don't understand the concept of DISCRETION.

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I would have a little more sympathy for her had she not made an incredibly rude remark about one of the chapters. Recognizing that a house is not for you is one thing. Being rude during a recruitment party and then making disparaging comments about its members on a public internet board... totally different story.

Agreed 10000%. There is absolutely no excuse for being rude at a recruitment party and then making mean comments about them like that.

This is so ridiculous how the "brutally honest" retro thread posters think it's OK to behave that way just because recruitment is already over.

als463 · #30 06-16-2009, 05:24 PM

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This is so true. Some people don't understand the concept of DISCRETION.

Agreed 10000%. There is absolutely no excuse for being rude at a recruitment party and then making mean comments about them like that.

This is so ridiculous how the "brutally honest" retro thread posters think it's OK to behave that way just because recruitment is already over.

I wasn't trying to be hateful-I assumed everyone else picked up on the school. I'm sorry. Even though my GLO does very well at that school, I still don't like the way she talked about other chapters....Had she said GOOD stuff throughout the post about each chapter-I would not have felt the need to question whether or not it was Drexel. Next time, I will keep to myself but, it was mentioned on here that she pretty much outted herself. Ooops!