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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no reason why a grown woman would be so defensive of these organizations and the process unless she works for them.

Lots of sad moms and girls here and so little compassion from the defender, it tells me what I need to know. [/quote]

Lol, I don’t work for them, but I was rush director of my sorority and just trying to clarify the rampant misinformation being spread here, particularly for op, who had genuine questions about how the process works.

I’m sorry your daughter was disappointed with the process.  With my own children, I usually try to help them put their disappointments in perspective rather than adopting them as my own tragedies.  You do you.[/quote]

People having different experiences than you is not misinformation. [/quote]

Actually rush is very uniform across schools, they might differ in size of rush and how that affects final numbers.  Most sororities have a rep from the National office present during rush who makes sure a sorority is uniform in how it deals with rush across campuses.

Every school that has a formal rush will use the match process designed to get bids in hands of the most girls, and give every house the opportunity for a full pledge class.  If the rules were different, [b]some houses would get a lot more girls[/b] and some girls would get a lot more bids, but that is not the structure that was chosen.

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Maybe my college was unique, but we had some houses that were much larger than others [/quote]

and how long ago was this? They use new software nowadays and have done alot to try to ensure equity. My DD is at UVA and of the 15 sororities, 14 of them are roughly the same size. One is smaller because it doesn't do as well in rush. They try to keep them level as much as possible, by allowing the smaller houses the opportunity to add pledges during informal rush etc.  They have a quota for each formal rush reason that is based on the total number of girls who finish the rush process. Its been in the 55 range these last couple of years. So no house can get significantly bigger than the others as they are all limited to that number. Yes some don't meet it, so those are smaller, but that's probably really only one house.[/quote]

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