Recruitment Rules

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by HQWest

Help me out with wording this....

The Law of Transference - Just like in the movies, every transfer student has a "special situation" that means they become awesome, unique, and mysterious. They should get the same consideration as freshmen by every sorority even though they don't know anyone. They just need to work a little harder.

Take out the work a little harder part...They are awesome and unique, why do they need to work harder!?

[AlphaFrog]

PST Theory: Pink sequin tights will keep you from being put in the formal parlor with the rushees that they are planning on cutting.

[Shellfish]

The Subtraction Rule: According to PNMs, student newspapers, independents, etc., the difference between the number of PNMs signed up and the number with bids is always caused by those sorority meanies and not voluntary dropouts.

[HQWest]

The Law of Definite Proportions: According to PNMs- there must always be one chapter completely comprised of fat girls. As a corollary, all of the girls in the "top" chapter must be ready to compete on America's Top Model at a moment's notice.....

[MaggieXi]

The Super Special Magical Feeling - When you go to preference the sorority is supposed to put a spell on you that creates the super special magical feeling. If you do not fall under their spell, then that isn't the house for you. The Super Special Magical Feeling typically presents itself before Unicorns Pooping Rainbows Syndrom takes effect.

[HQWest]

The Law of the Minimum- according to SOME PNMs - the minimum gpa requirements for recruitment posted by Panhellenic are all that matter, they have no basis in the requirements of the organizations and grades will have no effect on the desirability of a PNM

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by HQWest

The Law of the Minimum- according to SOME PNMs - the minimum gpa requirements for recruitment posted by Panhellenic are all that matter, they have no basis in the requirements of the organizations and grades will have no effect on the desirability of a PNM

"Pledge the Library" Corollary -- any PNM who just misses the minimum GPA for recruitment believes that she is special, that she deserves to be an exception to the GPA cut-off, and anyone who tells her "No" is a heartless biddy

[DeltaBetaBaby]

The Law of Relativity (credit 33girl): The chapter most likely to trash-talk the weakest recruiting chapter is the second-weakest recruiting chapter.

[KSUViolet06]

The Law of Not Butting Out states that the most ridiculously meddling alumna never did much for the sorority anyway.

Murphy's Law of Rush Crushes states that the PNM that everybody just LOOOOOVES and OMG JUST HAS TO HAVE BECAUSE SHE IS SOOO CUTE and SWEET and has OMG I WILL CRY IF NO ONE LIKES HER fights over her will do one of the following things:

*Be a complete waste of a bid. She will do nothing except sit and look pretty, then depledge before initiation.

*Terminate shortly following initiation because "it's like, not fun anymore." or some other dumb thing.

*Create some major drama within the next year, make a scene about it, make like 60% of the chapter hate her, and cause mass terminations before terminating herself.

The corollary to this law states that the girl who IS SO NOT the OMG LOVE HER FAVORITE or the OMG SHE WILL GET IN OR I WILL QUIT girl will usually become some sort of officer and end up participating WAY more than the girl that everyone is just SO in love with.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Murphy's Law of Rush Crushes states that the PNM that everybody just LOOOOOVES and OMG JUST HAS TO HAVE BECAUSE SHE IS SOOO CUTE and SWEET and has OMG I WILL CRY IF NO ONE LIKES HER fights over her will do one of the following things:
*Be a complete waste of a bid. She will do nothing except sit and look pretty, then depledge before initiation.
*Terminate shortly following initiation because "it's like, not fun anymore." or some other dumb thing.
*Create some major drama within the next year, make a scene about it, make like 60% of the chapter hate her, and cause mass terminations before terminating herself.

The corollary to this law states that the girl who IS SO NOT the OMG LOVE HER FAVORITE or the OMG SHE WILL GET IN OR I WILL QUIT girl will usually become some sort of officer and end up participating WAY more than the girl that everyone is just SO in love with.

The other Corollary to this is that If OMG LOVE HER girl does make it to initiation - she will have a younger sister - who will cause even more drama than she did.

[KSUViolet06]

Theory of Big-Little Relationships states that the Big-Little pairing that just HAD to happen and they are just OMG SO MEANT FOR EACH OTHER and OMG I LOOOOVE MY LIL SO MUCH will end up hating each other or causing some huge drama.

[BraveMaroon]

The Ecclesiastes Snowflake Syndrome: Even though we have collectively seen and heard every possible permutation of recruitment scenario, any new PNM posting on this site is completely unique and requires that we drop everything to aid her on her quest. Her condition also renders her completely blind to the search feature. Which, even if she used it, wouldn't help. Her situation is special. Any advice that doesn't confirm what she believes is "mean".

[DubaiSis]

I yearn for a rush thread where the girl actually does have a unique situation. And in lieu of that (I had an English teacher in high school who would not let us use the word unique unless the scenario or thing was actually literally singular in the entire world, which meant pretty much never), I'd be happy for an unusual situation. I'm trying to imagine what that might be...

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I yearn for a rush thread where the girl actually does have a unique situation. And in lieu of that (I had an English teacher in high school who would not let us use the word unique unless the scenario or thing was actually literally singular in the entire world, which meant pretty much never), I'd be happy for an unusual situation. I'm trying to imagine what that might be...

The woman of color looking to rush at 'bama was pretty unusual.

There are actually a few situations that I've encountered in real life that I don't remember ever discussing here...PNM in a wheelchair, PNM getting no invite from XYZ in round 2 but getting an invite from them in round 3, and my own rush really truly did have a "computer glitch" (i.e. human error, but everyone got the wrong invite lists and they were later corrected).

[psy]

The Sweet Valley recruitment syndrome: The PNM has a special "thing" that impacts her recruitment greatly, either because of or in spite of her incredible beauty, wealth, and overall awesomeness. We, sadly, never learn what this "thing" is.

(That was the best recruitment story ever. I'm sort of disappointed that the OP of it went BSC and never finished it).