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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that was interesting for my daughter, was that she met more people with similar majors in certain sororities. There definitely seemed to be some sororities which either attracted more pre-health students or, perhaps, kept them through the process. When you look at their highlighted internship opportunities, it made sense. These may not have been the most prolific on social media, but likely a better house for someone with the type of academic schedule that comes along with being pre-health.[/quote]

That is deliberate on the sorority’s part.  A result of the overorchestrarion of rush these days.  Girls are often limited to only talking to those with the same major and only a few girls each night, much different from meet as many sisters as possible rushes of past decades.  Girls then have to hope their assigned girls have a lot of pull in the sorority or they need preexisting ties to the sorority, such as other girls from their high schools attending, an older sibling, etc. . .

Many posters don’t seem to understand how rush works these days.  Everything is computerized, and designed to get the highest yield at each house.  The top houses have to cut a ton on girls each night, the lower houses keep far more.  A bottom house that underperforms reaching quota by a lot  each year will be allowed to cut almost no girls.  It’s possible for a girl to be ranked far higher at a top houses where she is cut than a bottom house where she keeps getting invited back, in fact, often the case.

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Ha!  My daughter told me she kept meeting girls with similar ECs or majors.  I figured she must have been assigned them on purpose.  That's interesting about how the cuts are made.So are you saying a girl could be 80 at one house, but they invite 70 and 110 at another house that invites 140?[/quote]

I'm not the PP but chiming in here anyway. Yes, that can happen.  The "top" houses make bigger cuts because most of the girls they choose will choose them back.  The "bottom" houses make smaller cuts because most of the girls they choose will NOT choose them back (even if it means dropping out of rush altogether). And the whole point is to get every house a full pledge class.

But keep in mind, at the end of the day, each sorority can only extend, lets say, 50 bids.  So the girl ranked 70 at the top house is not ultimately getting into that house and cutting her early gives her the opportunity to explore other options that might not be on her radar while under the false hope she's destined to be a [insert top house here].[/quote]

Adding to this: some of these top houses could fill their pledge classes with legacies, young women whose sisters, cousins, mothers, aunts and grandmothers were members.  Forty years ago, at my sorority, we created our ideal pledge class list long before rush, which included only a percentage of legacies, which meant many were cut after a few courtesy invitations. All lovely young women and very disappointed. The rest of the ideal pledge class had support not only from current members, but also multiple recommendations from extremely well connected alumnae.  So there really weren't too many spots open for unhooked rushees.  Think of it like the unhooked admissions lottery at colleges only accepting single digits.

Of course, this isn't the norm at all colleges.  But at some it's reality[/quote]

A number of sororities no longer consider legacies. [/quote]

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