the rush funnel
by: truth be told
Since this board has clearly been taken over by people who are either bitter about their rush results or naive to how things really work, here is the real deal. Rush is a funnel process; mutual selection means that the most desired houses, typically Old Row + Pi Phi, ADPi and Zeta, make the heavy cuts in the beginning. These houses will release over 1000 pnms the first round and know for the most part who these people are before rush week starts. Basically, those houses tend to do the best at the end of the week and get what they are looking for, where as the others want to make quota.
Level 1:
KD- connections, family reputation, exclusivity
Kappa- connections, family reputation, party people
DDD- connections, family reputations, well-rounded and involved
XO- connections, family reputations, well-rounded, earthy
AXO- connections, attractiveness, grades, involvement
PM- connections, attractiveness, grades, involvement
AGD- connections, well-rounded, involved
Pi Phi- attractiveness, cool-factor, party people
ADPi- grades, involvement
Zeta- attractiveness, party people, would boys like you
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Level 2:
DG, DZ, AOPi, APhi- whoever is decent and still available after level 1 funnel
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Level 3:
Theta, Gamma Phi- making quota
Comment#17by: Explains it
This post from last year explains it. And I would explain connections and family reputation this way. Usually, if you're from Mountain Brook, Buckhead, Belle Mead, Highland Park, River Oaks, etc. and you meet someone from these areas you will start playing the name game and guess what??You will usually know people in common. And, it never fails that they know someone that went to your high school or they know someone your parents went to school with, or your sister went to camp with,or your best friend's dad, etc. And then that will lead to other similar connections and a feeling of friendship. Also, if Suzy Q lives in one of these communities or a similar one, when she decides she is going to Bama (or really any college) her parents utilize all their contacts in these communities and will find out whose daughters go to school at UA and what sororities they are in and get her picture and resume out to them. They get their friends to talk her up and get Suzy Q's name out there and get her on the radar. I'm sure this happens on a smaller scale, too. But, these would be some wealthy southern and Texas areas. And, It doesn't hurt that Suzy Q is usually blonde, beautiful, smart, rich and accomplished :)
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#19by: not true
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by: 99
Ok. Then let me say the returns are stronger than some of the houses in the top half of level 1. Whispers.
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by: All truth
And if they didn't "know" you but had some interest they had several girls talk to you to get more info and see if you were a fit.
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