Alpha Phi Recruitment
by: truth
The recruitment chairs constantly reminded us that no one gets a score of βzero,β because every girl going through recruitment would fit in on some level. They drilled it into our heads, over and over again, that we were scoring girls on how much they reminded us of our current sisters rather than valuing them on our perceived quality of their individual character. It wasnβt offensive because giving a girl a score of 4/10 wasnβt declaring that she was a 4/10 individual, it was only suggesting that she would get along better with girls in a different chapter of our community.
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They did tell us, however, to pay close attention to the column of the scorecard that asked which of our current sisters the PNM reminds us of. They told us that if we did not have an answer to this question, it was an effective indicator that Beta Delta was probably not the best place for her.
They didnβt have to say it in a way that was more explicit or more vicious than that; they didnβt have to tell us what it meant to be βsimilar toβ or βdissimilar toβ our current sisters; they didnβt have to tell us exactly what quantified worth of membership in our undoubtedly yet indistinctly elite community.
Whether we admitted it to ourselves or not, we knew.
#1by: truth
I realized that I knew exactly what the recruitment chairs had meant when they said, "If you can't think of a Beta Delta she reminds you of, she probably doesn't belong here." How could she "remind us" of a current sister if all of our current sisters look a certain way, and she doesn't?
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I realized that appearances factored into my decision-making even when I was not consciously admitting that to myself. I never would have allowed myself to even think, "I'm giving her a 4 even though the conversation was fine because she's not pretty enough to be in this house." I never would have admitted that the only reason I gave that girl whom I had a boring conversation with an 8 was because she was beautiful.
#2by: truth
And so it goes: 1,200 names fall off recruitment profiles and into the Facebook search bar, where we must ask a series of important questions, created by nationals, of her public photos that will determine her "External Prescore" on a scale of 1-10.
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1. Is she naturally pretty?
2. Does she look like your current sisters?
3. Is she trendy?
4. Would you want to see her in your letters?
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10: She's "ideally beautiful"βthin with silky hair, great style, and an appealing faceβand therefore we want her in Beta Delta.
1: She is definitely not "pretty enough" to be in this chapter.
#3by: truth
Bump groups 10-14 and their PNMs would sit on the hardwood chairs in the brown, empty dining room. Bump groups 4-9 would sit on the beige rugs and couches in the light, yellow living room.
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Bump groups 1-3 would get comfortable on the couches in the smaller extra living room. The idea was that, in this enclosed space, PNMs would look around at the room full of pretty Beta Delta girls, and the pretty PNMs whom they were rushing, and admire these girls who might all become their sisters.
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#4by: truth
As the recruitment team, we had to ensure that the star PNMs would have the best recruitment experience possible. They had to meet our strongest recruiters, and as the rush team, it was our responsibility to meet all star PNMs and make final decisions about them. If a star had been picked up by the wrong sister, it was especially important that we invade their conversation, force our "favorable" energy into what was thought to be an unfavorable situation, and avert the "crisis" that was a four recruiting a nine.
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Sisters were often flattered when we wanted to come and join their conversations. Very few actually realized how incredibly offensive it often was.
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Flagging was a little easier to deal with because I wasn't the one doing it; this one was entirely in the hands of nationals.
#7by: Untrue
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