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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an immigrant kid in college I found it exclusionary as hell. I am glad my own kids aren't interested. [/quote]

You were unfortunately at the wrong college then. Totally not the experience I had.[/quote]

How can it be non-exclusionary if only a small percentage of people who rush are accepted? [/quote]

at university of alabama, one of the biggest recruitments, as long as you meet guidelines (GPA and such and do not have any red flags, every girl will get a bid as long as she maximizes her options all the way through.  it may not be to the house she wished for, but it will be a bid.[/quote]

This is still pretty exclusionary. And before you @me, I was in a sorority at a big SEC school.[/quote]

Yeah. These Panhellenic women are queens of gaslighting and “newspeak.”

“Maximizing her chances” means “take what you get, your own feelings, preferences, etc be damned”. If you get the catch-all new house that no one wants, it’s just “where you belong” and [b]instead of having fun, you’ll be working for four years to make the house grow to benefit the university[/b].

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What does this mean?[/quote]

Instead of joining an established, organized house with a giant social network, you spend your four years trying to grow the newest house that no one wants because it’s new.

Auburn did this in about 2017-18 and it messed up rush so terribly, Alabama moms told their girls to go to U Alabama instead.

Universities add houses when the number of girls participating increases significantly. But it’s usually a slow, hard process because most people don’t want the one house they aren’t at all familiar with.  So they lower the number of girls the established houses can take, funneling more girls into the position where all they are offered is the new house.

Universities do this because they only have so long to make the house succeed or else they lose the charter and need to do it again.  Maybe this would appeal to marketing majors and business development types, but to those who just wanted a social circle, it’s not appealing to instead get a job. And it’s a really selfish and cruel way to welcome a bunch of 17-18 year olds who just left home.  A humane and emotionally respectful way to do would be for every girl to have two choices left at the end of the week. But instead, many girls are left with only one well before bid day and either take it or drop out.  But the National Panhellenic and the university get your full rush fee regardless. Then they tell you this new house is your chance to “make it yours”. It’s a really disgusting manipulation of young girls for their own benefit.  [/quote]

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