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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Girls drop mid week because the algorithm is set up to push girls into the unpopular houses to save the chapters.  Girls aren’t  falling for it. They want to rush all week and have a choice to make at the end.  They’re told to find the right fit until they’re down to the one house the university is trying to save and then they’re told to just take what you get and don’t complain. Sounds like fun? [/quote]

This is a really stupid statement,[/quote]

+1
It’s asinine.
What the PP (who thinks she has cracked the code) is missing is that prior to changing the algorithm to “push the girls” toward considering houses they may not have wanted prior to rush week, sororities used to be able to invite any number they wanted to each round. And so all the girls would think they were destined to be a DDD so they’d keep going back there and drop other groups so that they could go back every night. Then the last night, girls who were sure they were going to get a DDD bid were left without a bid at all.
The algorithm just introduces the ones who were never going to be members of DDD to that reality much sooner so that they can have time to adjust their expectations and find another group they like before the last night of rush. 
There’s no great way to make everyone happy. But unlike PP’s fantasyland scenario, the reality is many girls never would have had that “end of week” choice. The math doesn’t math on that.
This is like thinking the star football player is going to ask you to the prom, so you turn down invitations from the nice valedictorian, the cool soccer goalie, and the hilarious drama dude when they ask you…only to find out the week of prom that star football player is going with head cheerleader and not you. Guess what? The truth is he was never going to ask you. He was always going with head cheerleader. And yeah, maybe it would have hurt a little if you had found that out three weeks ago, but wouldn’t you rather have understood that reality sooner so that you had considered those other options when you had the chance? But now it’s too late. You’re home crying on prom night. [/quote]

So the star QB was always going to prom with the head cheerleader = the "top" sororities already know who they're going to invite before rush even starts?  [/quote]

For the most part, yes, they do. [/quote]

Bingo. 
They have to have a pretty good idea, yes.
The top groups are required to drop about 50% of the girls after day one. 
Why? Because the numbers each chapter is allowed to invite back is varied and based on the percentage of women who rank those chapters at the top. They look
at the past three years of performance and the percentage of women they invited who chose to return to them each round. 
At the end of the week, in order to get a pledge class of 50, the top group basically only needs about 54 girls at preference bc most of the girls they choose will choose them back. Middle
Groups would need about double that, and lower groups need about 3x that.

If top houses were allowed to keep inviting large numbers of girls and stringing them along all week, they would have 250 at their last night and then still only be able to invite 50 to join.

Once you get that it’s a math equation, it’s not so personal, even though it has to feel that way for about a minute. It’s mostly based on resume and less so on that first 20-minute meeting. The top houses tend to be the girls that have a high social competence and make people feel love bombed and excited. The houses that are less successful in recruiting tend to be less comfortable with small talk, but that doesn’t make them any less fun in real life! Through the whole week, even with the house you end up in, you’ve really only spent a total of three hours there. So if you want the sorority experience, just go with an open mind to give each group an chance and you’ll be fine. [/quote]

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