Paleeze keep us updated!:)

It is always Great to Hear About Greek Expansion!

Cannot wait to hear the Newest News!:D

I've been lurking around this threat.. but I am dying to know!!

Co sign w/ Tom about keeping up updated! :)

I'm sure whatever organization Elon chooses, will be a great one! :)

Okay I've read the entire thread and I'm dying to know who is going to expand.

Of course, I want ADPi :), but the other two chapters that presented are fantastic also and I wish them the best of luck.

Either way Elon is gonna get an awesome new chapter!!!!!!!

Hahaha, we want to know, too! Hopefully tomorrow :D

ANY NEWS YET!!!!!!!

This is like a rush thread that I'm addicted too!!!! :)

lol ASUADPi

What she said! :)

man everyone seems to be getting ansy about this. I wish everyone good luck and hopefully well find out soon :)

Still nothing as of yet :o I wish they would email us already!

I think they are trying to kill us. :)

I wish they would just tell y'all already. I'm dying to know which chapter is going to colonize.

THERE IS STILL NO NEWS???!!!!
AAAAHHH

Nothing today, either. I REALLY want to know! I wish they would email us already and let us know!

They'll probably wind up emailing you all in the middle of the night, so the likelihood of you being able to post the news tonight is probably not that great....:p

It's okay, we're all just excited about expansion at another university! :)

putting aside the fact that i would really like to know who yall chose, Elon picked a pretty bad time to do these presentations. i mean school is about out for yall and the dean went away for a week.

Thank you! My sentiments exactly!

I thought the exact same thing. Why put such an important decision on peoples' shoulders when they have finals to take and for the admin, all the end of year stuff to finish?

I go to Elon too and am dying to know just like the rest of y'all! It really was bad timing - they shouldn't have waited so late in the year to do it. But whatever. I am definitely checking my email all the time waiting to hear!

I definitely agree. All they can do now is use it as a learning experience I guess. :) Next time they expand they might want to do it a little earlier in the semester.

Yeah, it was a pretty bad time. We all thought it would be voted on and decided before exams even started. Now I'm wondering if we'll hear before graduation :mad:

Ooooh....the suspense is killing me! But I know whatever organization is chosen will be good for Elon!!!!!!

At this rate, I hope we find out prior to Recruitment!!!!

^ hahahahahah i completely agree. I bet more collegiates from the other sororities (from the sororities presenting and the Elon chapters) would have been able to make it out to the presentation if it wasn't so late in the year

while we're waiting...
 

Xylochick216, do you know what kind of expansion this will be?

I'm not sure how expansions go, but will the new org start from the group up during regular formal recruitment? Or will they have a selection process after regular formal recruitment is over?

At NCSU, our expansion brings the sorority and representatives for it participate one night during formal rush. For us, its "philanthrophy night" where you do philanthropy stuff for 15 minutes with each chapter and talk to the girls. The girls are told that a new group will be taking applications after formal rush is over and that they can have the option of "applying" if they do not sign a bid.


The girls do a "formal rush" like process for the chapter. DG at NCSU interviewed certain girls (I think the cut was GPA only) and invited them to pref.

I do not know if Elon will do the same thing, but they might do something similar.

since Elon does formal recruitment in February, they had said at the Elon presentation that they would start building a chapter in the fall so that there's a group a girls ready to go for formal recruitment in the spring. i'm sure that the other sororities (ADPi and Tri-Delt) had figured to do this well

When AXO came to campus in 2001, they interviewed a lot of girls and chose 86 to colonize (total here then was around 100). They held their first recruitment during the winter term break (last week of January) and had their first new member class. I'm assuming it will work the same way this time.

Yes, but to do this with the new sorority, wouldn't that involving CHOOSING one first!?:rolleyes: Doesn't Elon realize they have NON PATIENT people waiting!!!!

Funny, I don't remember having this huge bump on my forehead from banging my head against the monitor since the last Recruitment season...

LOL!

Hello? Where is everyone?

I think we all have given up on the outcome! :)

Not given up.....just anticipating the eventual announcement! :)

supposedly we won't hear til the middle of next week now... I have NO clue what is holding them up :mad:

they know we all want to know.....they're killing us with anticipation :)

grrrrr this is taking forever. It's like waiting to find out what house a PNM chose!!!!!

Just let us know already. :)

did they give you a specific day and time? :p

I think they are doing it to be mean :)

That is a neat way to go through the process. That way, girls can join the fall semester and ones that do not get asked to join will have a chance to join other chapters that same year (IE GPA from high school is bad)


I personally am a fan of second semester rush. It also gives the girls an opportunity to pratice rush a lot sooner after colonization.

Question- If the chapter gets 88 or so girls, does that mean they can only take 12 in formal rush

What is the average pledge quota for elon?

Just got an email from our president - no news yet of expansion. I swear, this is getting CRAZY! Probably next week we will hear....graduation was Sat. and they were prob. really busy with that and all.

Quota this past year was around 49 I think...somewhere around that number. Not too sure how that works out with a new chapter, but I'm pretty sure that if you colonize in the fall and get 80 or so girls, you can still attempt to make quota during formal recruitment. I could be dead wrong though!

i could never imagine new member classes of 49 :eek:

the year i joined Alpha Phi, our quota was at 28 and that was the biggest it's ever been

We could only dream about 28 at my school....when I was in the chapter quota ranged from 10 to 13!! The University of Akron has a very small greek system (5 sororities/12 fraternities)...but is a verrrry large school! So sad!

Ahhh, the suspension is killing me!! :mad: