good rush

I mean kudos to those for having fine rushes. They each did better than most would have anticipated.

On further thought, I think AGD May have made a little statement that should quiet those saying they had fallen to the level of the top new row houses. They are clearly properly placed in the top tier.

Agree that AGD had a great rush. They got a terrific pledge class!

Agree that Alabama has an exceptionally strong system with no weak houses. Also agree KD was wise to finally get with the program, but it was not much of a change. They still boggles down with too many in state legacies.

Actually you can fill a pledge class with those girls. There are well over1,000 girls that go through rush from those states.

XO and KD got the girls they wanted, so who cares what states they’re from? Discriminating against a pledge class because of where they’re from is the same as discriminating against a pledge class because of the color of their skin. Not sure why you don’t understand that.

Alpha gam and chi o seem to be the only two houses that continue to focus exclusively on girls from the Deep South.

KD paid attention to what ddd and kkg did last year and it paid off big time. There’s nothing wrong with only taking southern girls, but they miss out on lots of girls who would be their type who aren’t from their area. In the end it doesn’t mean much, but many of the far OOS girls leave rush with a bad taste in their mouth about these kinds of houses.

both did awesome!!

Impressed with DZ definitely a win even with the bigger PC! Didn’t see many pics of Theta but wish them well

Theta's PC's are mostly out of state, high achieving, ambitious girls. I would expect good things from them

Is this why GPHI can’t get off the bottom even after 2 good PCs?

Gphi can’t get off the bottom after two MEDIOCRE please classes because that’s not enough to change a house’s rank, plain and simple. They got two pcs of girls who weren’t their usual “type” and everyone’s saying that they’re suddenly the new aphi? No. Taking a bunch of QRs and grade risks to up the the attractiveness level of your house doesn’t equal moving up in the ranks.

@So g phi has slowly been getting better PCs for the last 5ish years. idk why you sound like you have so much hate for them

I don’t hate them I just think they get way too much credit. They started improving with pc 16 but they haven’t been taking top pnms, just a bunch of QRs and grade risks who are pretty. Pretty does not equal improvement imo. Props to them for getting off the bottom of the bottom but they’re still not all that

Hey @so...so you’re saying all of gphis new class who are attractive MUST be qrs & grade risks??? hahahahahhaha I pity you. that is not the case but you tried it!!!

If GPhi can improve in their house gpa and demonstrate good involvement, including making a strong HC showing, then people might be willing to consider them as reaching a new normal and perhaps move them up.

No ones assuming they must be grade risks. They aren’t assumptions, they’re facts. Gphis been trying to take attractive girls for two-three years now and haven’t gone up in the grade report at all. My best friend is a gphi and had a 1.5 her first semester of college and gphi didnt even put her on probation. they aren’t even trying. Ask the hot gphis this year what their other house was during pref I can’t guarantee you a majority of them also preffed alpha phi

I also had a good friend who was a Gphi but she had a 3.8 and was pretty, sooooo it isn’t facts that all pretty girls in their house must be a qr or grade risk

If you’re only in PC 16 or 17 then you probably can’t appreciate how much GPhi has improved. I was PC 14 in a different house and I can give credit where it’s due, they reputation and quality of PCs improved SO much between PC 14 and when I graduated in the spring. I’m not on campus anymore so I don’t know what their PC 18 looks like, but if it’s anything like their PC 17 then they have improved tremendously.
I do hope they will start making some major improvements in GPA, but I think they had to get the houses popularity up first. Theta has a great GPA and they’re still considered bottom because they aren’t popular during rush, so a solid GPA is not enough to pull a house from the bottom.

@So you do sound bitter! What do you have against GPhi? They are great girls who have really improved! They love their house as evidenced by the high retention rate #4 overall. They just need to work on grades!

@lol...Some best friend you must be. If your story is true, you just outed yourself so she can see how you throw shade at her and her friends. So my guess is you are really a troll. I have a good friend in Gphi who has a 4.0 and is adorable. So your 'fact's don't add up.

Actually I haven’t outed myself at all considering it’s not uncommon for a gphi to have a 1.5 and not go on probation. Congrats to your friend for having a 4.0. I never said NO gphis have 4.0’s I said gphi isn’t prioritizing gpa as much as they should. I get that, considering their current reputation on campus, they don’t have many girls to choose from during recruitment to boost their gpa, but you would think that once their girls are in the house they would be more strict on grades. These are straight facts, call me a troll all you want but every gphi on this campus will admit their house is way too lenient on grades.

@lol this isn’t true. One of my good friends used to be on GPhi exec and bc my house also isn’t on the top of the grade report we talked about grade stuff a lot. If I remember correctly a 1.5 would put someone on their second strike (meaning one more semester below their required GPA and she has the potential to get kicked out). Unless she has good justification for her standards hearing she 100% would have been on social probation.
I agree they need to be harsher on grades (again, so does my house so i can relate to that frustration), but either you’re lying or your friend had extenuating circumstances that justified her 1.5

I'm in grad school now so I've seen quite a few years of recruitment. If you only could look back to when I got here and compare G Phi's girls from then to now. You would see what an enormous move up they've had. If you look at the average girl in that house they are indistinguishable from average girls in the pretty girl houses. Yeah, they have some that are very unattractive, but so do ALL the houses. So looks aren't a problem now. GPA is still a problem and they better be working on it. Problem is though as long as people on stupid websites like this criticize the bottom half of the houses, girls would rather drop out than run to a bottom half house. That makes it hard to recruit for grades. Moving up though will help them get the credibility that will allow them to recruit girls with better grades. So yeah they've moved up considerably. And the reason you see a lot of people on here being critical is because they're in houses that are being surpassed or at least in danger of being surpassed by G Phi.

“USED to be on exec” are your key words. We’re talking about current gphi (sacrifices looks for grades) not the gphi that was two years ago. I’m not bashing gphi, I honestly admire their changes as much as the next person and think sacrificing their grades for looks is definitely the right move, I just don’t think it makes them move up in the rankings at all. At least not right now, maybe in a few years.

To be clear, their grades aren’t great and need improvement and I agree that when that happens is when they’ll really establish that they’ve moved up in the ranks. I just don’t buy into the “sacrificing grades for looks” narrative. Their grades have been close to the bottom every semester for years. It’s not like they were at the top of the grade report and fell to the bottom because of hot grade risks. They didn’t “sacrifice” their grades, they just have gotten much cuter girls. I hope they leverage this to start making a move up the grade ranks now that PNMs are actually interested in the house.

Exactly. They didn't "sacrifice" anything. They haven't had good grades ever since I've been here. They used to get not good looking girls with bad grades. Now they have some of the cutest girls without good grades. So it's a start. I think at most it moved them barely into the bottom of the middle tier. But they're clearly in the middle tier now regardless of what @D says.

They won't move up when grades do because pi phi used to have much cuter girls and good grades and were still considered middle, zta used to have barely a 3.0 and now has a 3.3 and still considered middle

Theta did get some great girls, but they also seemed to have more "unwanted"/bigger pnms than all the other houses.