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[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]

Except if the star football player wants to go to prom with the head cheerleader, he just asks the head cheerleader.  The high school doesn’t make him go through this farcical rigmarole of speed dating the class president, the theater kid, the dance team captain, the band geek, and the debate whiz first.  “So you’re saying there’s a chance” only makes it harder on girls.[/quote]

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