If deemed necessary, reported comments will be removed within 7 - 10 days but usually sooner. Please submit this report ONLY if you STRONGLY believe this needs to be removed. Multiple illegitimate reports slow down the administrative process of removing the actual and more seriously unfavorable content.

Poster Name:
Hmm

Poster Message:
The #1 issue, I think, is transparency. Panhel tries to make recruitment sound like "mutual selection", but it's not really until pref when suddenly the PNMs have all the power (mostly). Up until then, it's sororities with the power. I also think explaining how a bid list works, how some chapters will have to cut a lot of girls day one, etc would help tremendously. We paint it as "you'll choose a sisterhood and it'll be so much fun" but really it's "the sororities will choose you and there will be some rejection". Even a handout about how do sororities pick members, how do cuts work, etc would maybe add to some initial stress, but would curb the misunderstandings that pop up after everything is done. Legacies and friends from high school happen at every house, though, up and down the tiers. And that's true. If you know of a great girl from high school, she's going to get spotlighted. That doesn't stop tons of girls from joining every year that have no connections, and just because that girl might be identified, the sisters still have to vote her high. Girls are also spotlighted before from excellent applications, trophy positions (for example, NCAA athletes), great social media, letters of rec, etc. Legacies are funny. It's a house by house thing and is often the alumnae that push them or are relaxed on them. Legacies are usually only guaranteed an invite back to the second round, and if they're at pref they are in your pledge class. The rest is up to them.