My school is having a horrible time recruiting. We are doing everything that we can and it still isnt helping. I even posted about it earlier this week. Titled "low Rush Numbers". Anyways, normally FAU gets about 100-150 girls to go through, well Wednesday we had 16 girls signed up and now I think it's at 36. Recruitment starts SUNDAY! AH! Im sure everything will be fine, but the girls seem so snotty about it this year when we ask them if they are interested!
Maybe it's the economy? maybe it's sorority life by mtv?

Hang in there, Nicole! I know we had a HUGE jump in numbers of girls signing up in the last 2 days of sign-up and now we are at about normal. Let me know how it goes. Also, I think you guys just had AOTT colonize at FAU--how are they doing??

Right state wrong school. ;) We charterd at Florida International in 2001. We also chartered at Rollins in 2002.

This year we had the second biggest number of women come through recruitment in the school's history - 508 women. I am hoping that this is going to be a continuing. We unfortunately have an upward trend of a lot more single intention bidding (suiciding) on pref day now, and the results are not good. Last year, almost 40 women either dropped or suicided and didn't get matched on the last day. This year there weren't as many drops, but there were more suicides.

Other Reasons?
 

I wonder if it's something other than the economy here. I sure a high percentage of the Greek community at UIUC comes from the Chicago suburbs. My daughter was planning to rush through most of her Senior year. Then then hazing at Glenbrook North happened and she was convinced that if she joined a sorority she would have to subject herself to that type of abuse. Ultimately she decided against going Greek, at least for now.