Kristin

If we did lose a group, I was before I joined. We recently added a new sorority. SO we now have 13. 5 of us are under total, with 4 of us under 100.

Make sure that you rely on your VST Recruitment Consultant. She will have lots of good ideas for you. Also try to COB as much as possible. If every member can get one friend to pledge--poof--you have magically doubled your size!

Can you ask Alpha Alpha (UB) to come up and assist you with recruitment? They are only an hour and a half away. :)

Is it possible to have the UCO chapter assist with recruitment? Would that even be allowed?

I can imagine that with over 1500 rushees you would need some help being one of the smaller groups.

I would totally offer to help, but I will be in RI that week.

I know we have talked about it before but I don't know what exactly has happened in the past. It also depends if their recruitment is the same time or not.

I think their bid day is the day of first rounds for y'all. Maybe you could see if any of their girls would be willing to help out over the weekend. That would be great. My cousin Kari went to UCO last year. She was friends with quite a few, she said they were awesome girls. Of course I never doubted that, it is always nice to hear. :D

I found out that they are coming to help with rally and will be fillers. But I don't think they will actually rush. We don't want mislead girls and have them think that the UCO girls are part of our chapter. I think this is the case.

I understand not having them rush. But I am glad they are going to help. It will be good to have extra girls around to help with details so that your chapter can concentrate on rushing.

I think it is great that we have two really great chapters so close to each other. That way you can help each other out when there is a need.

Good! :)

Keep in mind that Rome wasn't built in a day. If I remember correctly, your rush last fall and COB last spring was an improvement from the year before. So your goal this year should be to surpass your numbers from last year. If you take quota, even better!!!

If you take those small steps, you will catch up within the next few years. Slow and steady wins the race. ;)

Brittany, I do have some questions though. You mentioned that quota is 120 and total is 160. Could you explain that to me? I thought that quota should be the number of PNMs attending Preference divided by the number of sororities. Does that mean that you have over 1500 attending Preference??? That is CRAZY! :eek:

Also quota additions are supposed to be limited to 10% of quota. That's a Green Book rule.

I am not positive of the numbers for this year but those where the quota and totals of last year or really close to it. My freshmen year (2 years ago) there was 1000 girls last year it was more but I don't know how many more.

Yes, I looked it up on a thread here from last year and OU's quota was 86. That is NUTS! My entire chapter is not that large!

Just my opinion, but 300 in one chapter is out of control. I even think 200 is pushing it really far.

Yeah, I was just about to say that it was about 86. We only got 40 girls. But if we keep getting just 40 girls next year we will be at 100 and so on. We will keep growing slowly.

Sounds to me like you girls have the right attitude! :)

I found out from our VPR that quota was at about 86 and total was about 160. So far 770 girls have signed up for rush this year and 62 of them are sophomores.

We've tried COR, everything. We've had events that no one came to... either we're targeting the wrong groups, or we're not selling ourselves the right way.

We've talked about having the Zeta Chi (U of Western Ontario) girls come out and help with our FR in exchange for the same for them, as they're only about two hours away, but the idea of having Alpha Alpha come up could be good too. A lot of the girls want to go down to Buffalo to go outlet mall shopping (there are some things you just can't get here... Victoria's Secret, A&F, J Crew...) before the summer is open so I'll suggest that we hop by the chapter too! :)

DWAlphaGam posted this in another thread. I thought it was good advice related to our hijack! :D