Giving Incorrect Recruitment Advice

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Nice....I bet they had some mishaps with those!

[DrPhil]

bump because GCers loooooove giving advice

[Tippiechick]

I can understand the intention of the sticky. But, some good old truth-telling would have accomplished the same thing...

If people would call the bullshitters out on their asshattery, then the problem would solve itself. If someone's saying something dumb, call it out WITH NAMES IN the THREAD!

On the other hand, if an 18 year-old cannot do a simple search on here and weed out stupid shit from good advice, they have more to worry about than rush...

Not sure why we've stickied this. Good intention... BUT, we just need some good old regulating on the board and the embarrassment would do the trick.

[DrPhil]

Bump because it was entertaining on a Saturday morning and I spotted the Regina.George sockpuppet troll in the perp thread.

[adpiucf]

Bumping because I haven't been on GC in a while and I did not understand 33's siggy until now!

Anyway... call me cynical, but someone who takes the advice they get on a message board does so at her own risk. You don't need a license to post on GC. Yet. Meanwhile, we can say whatever we want... until the mods censor it or John bans us, whichever comes first.

[NextYearSC]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

This is why I think it's super important for PNMs to get to KNOW someone in REAL life who is familiar with the system.

GC is a great resource but it should not be your primary source of recruitment info. It's also not the "gospel" concerning recruitment at your school.

I haven't read this entire board, so don't know if this point was brought up, but I'm the first in my family to want to go Greek and know only two adults who I am not close to who were even involved in Greek life. I just wanted to bring up that some people may not have the option to talk to people they know in real life regarding recruitment, although I am trying to work on that now.

[DubaiSis]

That's fair and why we are glad to help. Just understand that while I don't think anyone here tries to sabotage anyone's outcome, do understand that some people jump in where they don't belong. If you get an answer here to a question, wait to see if there are a variety of answers. And anything that says you don't need excellent grades, recs are unimportant or you can dress however you want should be given at least a double take. There are schools were these answers may be true, but I'd make damn sure your school is one of them before trusting it. Don't latch on to the easy answer among 50 that disagree.

And PM is your friend. If you find someone from your school, feel free to send them private messages. You can avoid some of the fire storm that way.

[UGAgirl93]

NextYearSC makes a good point. Another thing is even if you have a family member familiar with the system, they might not be familiar with the way things work at your school. For example, when I decided I wanted to rush, the only greek person in my family went greek at a very small, private school with no football team, 6 sororities and only a small number of girls going through recruitment. Said family member told me I didn't need to get my own recs because at their school the sororities really did get a rec for every girl rushing witout issue. It wasn't until late June that I knew I would need to get my own for the 17 chapters at my SEC school. I think it's good (and sometimes vital) for the PNM to do their own research specific to their school, even if they have someone greek helping them out. If you're going to rush, do your own homework. If you copy someone else's it might not always be right.

That being said the information they find on their own would need to be accurate. It's kind of a big circle if you think about it.

[33girl]

This obviously needs a bump.