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HowItWorks

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The houses that are the most difficult to get into are those that the most number of PNMs want to return to after each party day. When a huge number of women who go through rush rate a house very high (or pref a house), then the way the system works is that it defaults to which girls the individual sorority wants to have back. So, in effect, the most popular houses become the most difficult to get into because everyone (or almost everyone) wants them. Now, my figures likely are not accurate for this year's rush, but when I was on PanHell two years ago, the most popular houses (based on sheer numbers of girls who wanted to return to that house) might surprise you. The top four (in no particular order, and I chose four because that's all I remember accurately) were Kappa, ADPi, PiPhi and ChiO. A group of other PanHell reps and I talked about this, and we thought that perhaps it was because these houses were not as stereotypical as others, so more PNMs could "see themselves" in those houses. So when people say such-and-such a house "had a good rush" or such-and-such a house "has their pick of new members," that's what it means: that house is difficult to get into because the largest number of rushees want it. There also are other factors at play. There are some houses, for example, that give enormous weight to legacies or recs, whereas there are some houses where being a legacy almost works against you. There also are some houses that have a strict GPA cutoff.