If you’ve gone through sorority recruitment, you know just how stressful the whole process is. You want to be on your best behavior, while also showing the various chapters your personality, while also deciding which house suits you. The “mutual selection process” is no easy task—in fact, it’s appallingly similar to the “mutual selection process” on “The Bachelor.” Similar to rush, the women on the show are putting their best foot forward, yet want to show Ben who they are, all while looking like nothing short of perfection and deciding if Ben is actually right for them. Here are 7 ways rush is scarily similar to “The Bachelor:”
1. Every time you get your recruitment schedule, it feels like a rose ceremony.
Getting your schedule and seeing which houses dropped you and which houses invited you back is extremely nerve wracking. Just like a rose ceremony, you have to be prepared for the worst. Even if you feel very confident in your conversation at your dream house (or with your dream guy), you never can be 100 percent certain.
2. When you get paired up with another PNM on a house tour and it feels like a two-on-one date.
Some chapters will have one tour guide for two potential new members. Even though you want to play nice with the other girl, you also feel weirdly competitive with her. You know in the back of your mind that potentially only one of you will be invited back to the next round, just as Ben will only give one girl the rose. We were all Ashley in this picture.
3. Recruitment counselors.
Recruitment counselors are there to help potential new members through the difficulties of recruitment. In the case of “The Bachelor,” Chris Harrison is a recruitment counselor. He’s there to moderate the process and be a person to confide in when the girls have moments of weakness.
4. There will be a Lace.
Lace left “The Bachelor” very abruptly and on her own terms. Similarly, there will be girls who unexpectedly and suddenly drop recruitment and, even though it sucks, it’s probably for the best.
5. Quite simply, there’s more girls than there are spots.
Odds are, many girls will drop recruitment or unfortunately not have any more invitations to houses. The same goes for “The Bachelor,” except instead of hundreds of openings in chapters, there is only one opening to be Ben’s wife. When it comes down to it, girls will be disappointed in one way or another. In both scenarios, there will probably be ugly crying.
6. It’s one of the most draining things you’ll ever do.
Recruitment week is filled with long days of endless small talk, not to mention having to look put together and coping with the stress of being in a new environment. The situation on “The Bachelor” is very similar because, although I’ve never been a bachelorette, I can only imagine how emotionally and physically draining the whole process is.
7. It’s all worth it in the end.
After you get into a chapter, you completely forget about all the stressful moments of rush because the outcome could not feel better. The winner of “The Bachelor” must feel an enormous sense of relief and all the distressing moments are completely worth it because you found the love of your life, or at least your perfect chapter...same thing, right?
