Laughed so hard reading this. Coming from rush at UGA, I still heard that it was nothing like rush at Ole Miss. Cannot wait to read the stories.

Although I have no idea how many recs I actually had (too embarrassed to ask) I know it was...ummm...slight over-kill. :) In my defense, my mom was a really active alum at that time at the local and national level and I was raised around these women. Lots of them are like a second Mom to me. That being said, you only need one (the key being ONE from somebody that actually KNOWS you). I don't think any of us ever actually laid eyes on a rec once we were on the other side. There's just no way to look at that many recs for every girl going through at Ole Miss.

But if a girl does have multiple recs, I figure if the alums are pushing her that hard, she must be pretty good!!

And sending pizza to feed the entire sorority with your daughter's face plastered on the box it is NOT a good idea. Just send the rec, the pizza does no good! (But it was nice of that Mom to feed us all.:D)

I graduated in 2002! Thank goodness! Rush was a killer!

Sometimes I still wonder how I survived! haha :)

Just out of curiosity, how often do twins split up among two different houses?

i figured that they have used pepperoni to outline the pnms head with bell pepper for a mouth(red bell pepper of course) olives for eyes and cheese for hair. now i am disappointed that there was a photo of the pnm on the box:(

We had two sets of twins (that I know of) when I was undergrad.

Both girls of one set were ChiO's (as well as both in marching band - one drumline, the other colorguard), and the other set were ASAs.:D Speaking of, one of the girls from our set of twins had a baby girl this week.:)

When I was an undergrad, I noticed that the twins who went through recruitment would tend to go to different houses. We pledged a girl one year whose twin went KD. It's interesting because I've noticed that sisters will tend to go to the same house though. The younger sister would almost always pledge the chapter that her older sister is a member of (this is if they go to the same school). There was a girl in my PX group that pledged her sister's house even though she knew she'd fit in better somewhere else.

Your new house is GORGEOUS!!! I know you are proud of it! Best of Luck to all the Ole Miss Houses--I know y'all are working very hard! I'm looking forward to hearing all about it!

Until last year, I NEVER heard of twins who were split between two houses! I know of a set when only one twin pledged, and the other dropped, but never split up.

Thinking back...most of the sets of fraternal twins I've known have pledged different groups and most of the identical sets have pledged the same groups.

There are actually 870 PNMs signed up for sorority recruitment....

A few years ago there was a set of twins and both went DG. Then another set came through and one went Chi O and one went Tri Delta. There were triplets in Pi Phi when I was a freshman back in the day. There were twins in AOII when I was a freshman too. It's always fun to see where the twins end up!

Did they have bid day yet?

Bid Day was yesterday. By all accounts, everyone made quota.

Quota was 84 and AOII got 89. Everyone made quota and did very well!

I don't know where the twins pledged....I think there were at least 2 or 3 sets this year!

Bid List?
 

Does Ole Miss publish a new member list?

They haven't in the past and I don't think they did this year.

Well, pooh.

At least when I was in school, sororities would take out an ad in the student newspaper after bid day with a list of their new members. Don't think those are still published.

My daughter's new pledge class was posted in the Auburn's student newspaper by her new sorority. There were several other new pledge classes posted as well by other sororities in that same copy.

Would anyone at Ole Miss be willing to scan and post a few of the pledge ads for us yankees who are addicted to your recruitment?

i'll be in oxford for most of next week-i'll try to pick up these pledge ad's[i'm still unsure of them myself] and scan them for you. i'm interested, as well!!! haha your yankee comment made me laugh ;-)

link for Ole Miss paper
 

You can view the Ole Miss paper at http://www.thedmonline.com/

Click on 'DM in PDF' to see the whole paper with ads.

They should start putting the ads with the lists in the paper over the next week or so but it's kinda random.

AOII and KD did their ads today. Tri Delta was yesterday or on Tuesday I think. There will probably be some tomorrow. AOII's ad was really cute today if I don't say so myself!

Well, I stand corrected about the ads!! They are still there! BTW, SOOO great to fiiiinally WIN today and big with a shutout!!!!

Delayed Rush
 

Does anyone agree that Ole Miss has really made things difficult by moving rush after school starts? I attended Ole Miss Homecoming this weekend, and the sororities and fraternities were EXHAUSTED between midterms, rush, and Homecoming! This is going to not only hurt rush but also the university's enrollment if they don't move the date for rush. I really think it needs to be MOVED BACK...before school starts. Thoughts/comments?

It doesn't seem to be hurting anything. In fact, if anything it helps some PNMs by letting them get to know people. Why would this hurt the enrollment of a major university???

I never did like the delayed rush. I rushed when rush was before school and prefer that. If they don't want to hold rush before school anymore for whatever reasons they have, then I would prefer deferred rush. Holding rush in the middle of the semester, especially when midterms are going on, is almost cruel! They are punishing about 1/3 of their student population unduly.

It was delayed when I rushed. I always viewed it as though there will always be things in my life that coincide with school/midterms. If being in a sorority was something I wanted to do, I knew I had to be adult enough to figure out how to better manage my available time.

I sure didn't make my college decisions based on recruitment dates.

Exhaustion is just part of going to school, and it is part of going through life. Take a deep breath and let your daughter select her school based on her education needs rather than on when recruitment is scheduled.

I wouldn't expect anyone to make their college enrollment decisions based on recruitment dates, but it does seem to me that having sorority recruitment while classes weren't also going on would be better. If you wanted to have deferred, it seems like it would be better moved until after finals in the fall semester. I was looking up the academic calendar and finals end on December 7th, I think; couldn't it be after that for a week?

ETA: I'm not saying that college kids shouldn't have to learn how to do social stuff and classes at the same time, just that SEC sorority rush is pretty exhausting, and it might be easier on everyone to do it on a school break.

For most groups, you have to have enough time between pledging and the end of the semester to get them initiated. Doing that after finals would mean that the new member period wouldn't start for several weeks as well. And some groups require the new member education to begin within a week of pledging. And it is called "delayed" not "deferred" if it is held later in fall semester. Deferred is held in spring.

Good to know.

Back to where the twins pledged. I know that DG has one set. I think they were from Maryland.

As far as rush, I can see both sides. I will say that if they moved rush back just a couple of weeks so that it is not DURING mid-terms it would be better. Because of the fear of "dirty rushing" there is not a whole lot of interaction between the girls in the GLO's prior to rush. It does give the houses the time to observe the girls, but the girls really do not have any idea who is in a GLO unless they are wearing T-shirts, etc. I know my daughter was shocked at all the girls she knew in GLO's when she went through two weeks ago.

My daughter was coming from out-of-state (actually out of the region) so it was nice that she had the extra time for the houses to get to know her. She had a great recruitment for someone who went to Ole Miss knowing NO ONE. She might have done better in a deferred rush, but who knows. She is thrilled to be in a house, getting to know people, having a wonderful time and getting decent food.

I want to thank all of you on GC for the input during the past several months. I will say that it was a very tense time, but well worth the effort. I was able to help my daughter, as well as others, really understand that a lot of rush is a numbers game. The houses/members may really like you, but there is only so much room. Which is amazing considering the size of the pledge classes. Thanks again for the help.

I know that at Arkansas, they moved rush into September to increase/retain enrollment. They used to have it before school started, and if some PNMs didn't get the sorority they wanted, they actually transferred schools, costing the University enrollment. It happened often enough that the chancellor demanded that recruitment be moved after classes started.

I am NOT a fan of large recruitments after school starts, but I wanted to point out that there apparently is an argument that delaying recruitment actually helps enrollment.

My recruitment was the last year they held it before school started. Then in Fall of 1997 they moved it to like 6 weeks into the fall semester. I believe it was either that year or the year after that when rush was over two weekends, talk about exhausting! Rush dates are usually based on now when there is an away football game weekend that is about 4-6 weeks into the first semester. Last year it happened that Homecoming was the weekend before rush, so I can assure that active members were not that interested in decorating homecoming floats. But they endured and all of the sororities and fraternities had floats.

I am afraid that they are not going to move rush to the way it use to be or to later on in the semester or even January. The Administration had many reasons to move it, one was retention rates and another was when they secured the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter at a public university in the State of Mississippi. I helped write a proposal two years ago with other sorority advisors on campus about why it should be moved to before school starts. However, that did not help to persuade anyone at all.

So the point is, that Ole Miss rush will stay the way it is. I don't see the Administration moving it at this point. I think finally after ten years of having deferred recruitment, the Ole Miss Greeks are finally adapting.

The Administration had many reasons to move it, one was retention rates and another was when they secured the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter at a public university in the State of Mississippi.

Wait.... I understand the retention rate issue but what does Phi Beta Kappa have to do with it?

My guess is that the steering committee at the time Ole Miss was trying to charter a chapter didn't want PBK's national officers to see something that might be construed as frivolous and an indication that the school didn't take academics seriously.

Exactly. Totally agree with you LXA SE285.