Sallie, I understand! The Alpha Gam house at Mizzou was built to be different and, boy, was it. Imagine a sorority house designed along the lines of a 1960's suburban ranch house: horizontal and rambling, with a mosaic-tiled foyer and exposed peach brick in the formal/informal living rooms -- in sharp contrast to the 1920's Georgian revival or Tudor styles of the other houses.

Norts AND Neon!

Ole Miss Recruitment Online Registration
 

Ole Miss Panhellenic Registration Site (opens 5/14 at 12:00 a.m.)
https://secureapp.icsrecruiter.com/I...spx?UID=OLMISS

Required Information Before You Begin:
1) Ole Miss Student ID number;
2) Ole Miss email account;
3) Residence Hall and Room number (if you will be living on campus);
4) Recruitment Registration Fee must be paid with credit/debit card or electronic check; AND
5) Your online application CAN NOT be saved at any time. Please make sure you have enough time to fill it out in one sitting or you will have to start over.

** No late registrations are accepted.
** Information about grade restrictions varies here from the public policy that there are no lower limits on grades for PNMs.

Social Media Management for the serious PNM.
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=126505

^^^ updated link
https://secureapp.icsrecruiter.com/I...spx?UID=OLMISS

:)

Thank you, Ninja Poodle! Main post updated. Subsequent post updated.

Hat tip to Titchou

Concise advice on how to obtain recommendations from U. of Alabama: http://www.uapanhellenic.com/index.p...d=15&Itemid=32

Hat tip to KDCat

Howmany recs do you ladies recommend per house?

[See above] Two.

Ole Miss Panhellenic has been very busy on Pinterest, putting up some neat things...impressive! It's nice that there are pins from the chapters as well.

What to say during recruitment
 

A good question from another thread:

Great answer:

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Additional Chapter Web Site Located!

Delta Delta Delta :
- - - - - http://info.theginsystem.com/websites/DDD_UMiss/

Hat Tip to Gingerdeltaz

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spam bump

Per GC User LaneSig - "Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, and Delta Zeta have been invited to present to Ole Miss Panhellenic. Presentations will be held in late August."

Good Luck to each presenting NPC Group!

Help!!!
 

I have decided after much thought that I really want to rush this year, but I will be rushing as a junior because I am transferring to Ole Miss this fall. I need help no one in my family was ever in Greek life so I have no recommendation letters and I really don't know how or where to get them. So if someone could help me out with how to get them as well as any other advice you would like to give me I would be so grateful! :)

It was strongly recommended that recs be sent by August 1st. You just decided NOW that you wanted to rush?

You're a Junior, a transfer, with no recs. Best of luck to you. To say it'll be difficult is an understatement.

Do a search on this site for rec letters. You'll find explicit instructions for getting them. It matters not that no one in your family has been Greek.

Reading the very first post of the thread includes a direct link to solid information on obtaining recs.

Just had to share an experience I had this week and ask you for your input.

A local girl called to ask for a rec to Ole Miss (we are out of state). I said I would be glad to and expressed concern at the late date, encouraging her to be timely in getting the rest of her recs and to impress upon her rec writers to get them mailed in quickly. Her response was to explain to me (thank you, dear, bless your heart!) that rush was not until mid September. I tried to explain that the sorority girls will be arriving at school early for work week, learning the PNMs info, etc and that is why recs really need to be there sooner rather than later. We had a nice conversation. I tried not to be too pushy about it but still feel I am right.

Then I ran into her mother who told me they had called Greek Life regarding these recs and the Greek Life office told her she was fine, it was not too late, etc. (what?)

Question - Do the Ole Miss girls have a work week? I have always assumed so, but maybe I am wrong? And, despite what I have read, and feel I know, about Ole Miss rush, the response by the GL office kind of freaked me out and made me feel I had mislead and freaked out the PNM.

OK, Irish, let's approach this a little bit differently since I am among those who usually discourage women in your position.

What is going to entice a chapter to extend a bid to you instead of the 1200 (or whatever number) mostly freshman girls who have been preparing for recruitment for many, many months?

What kind of super shiny, glittery qualifications are going to make you stand head & shoulders above your younger competition that already have their references in place? References that have been studied for months by women already in the sororities at Ole Miss?

- Do you have a STELLAR (3.75+) GPA from a well respected university?

- Did you start some kind of charitable drive to feed kids in underprivileged countries or lead a rebuilding efforts in Haiti or collect donations for war veterans?

- Were you president of your former university's student association or service organization?

Tell us what makes you the super special snowflake junior that they will want to take a chance on?

I dont think she is acting like a special snowflake at all. She isn't acting entitled or spoiled. True, being a junior will be a very, very tough recruitment- especially for a transfer, and i think her chances are slim based on that. I just think Irish22 is just like the rest of the pnm pool - she wants to experience what we all know and love: membership in a NPC.

I am sorry if I implied that she was acting like a special snowflake HERE. I didn't mean to.

I was asking what qualifications she has that could help her overcome our usual cautions to

1. a junior transfer
2. coming to recruitment at one of the most competitive schools in the South,
3. with no recs,
4. EXTREMELY late in the process.

Not trying to imply that she was being spoiled at all...

No, she is not "too" late but she is "damned" late. They aren't going to discourage anyone from signing up but they did tell her the truth. And yes, some groups do work week before school starts.

Yes, chapters here have work weeks. And yes, it's late to be submitting recommendations/references. She needs to go in and treat the invitations she receives each day as if those were the only houses on campus.

Hopefully she was competing at the Olympics, that's one reason which would definitely overcome her situation.

[Quickly wiping ice water off my laptop screen and keyboard]

Nicely played.

PERFECT and stellar excuse :D

Be sure to wear your medal during parties!

Well done, 28stGreek!

A few weeks ago, I had a local girl ask me to write her a rec for Ole Miss and I agreed. She told me that it was due September 1 so I had not yet submitted it. I am now seeing that it looks like her rec will be late and I feel terrible. But it's not my fault she gave me the wrong date, right? Should it have been my responsibility to confirm this?

don't worry about whose fault it is. just get it done and sent off asap.

Exactly. Send it by the electronic method if your HQ has made that method possible for you.

Well considering the little sporting event that's going on in London, it was the first excuse that came to mind!

My daughter pointed out to me that one of the sororities at Ole Miss had Sept. 1 on their website as the deadline, but the office of Greek Affairs suggested Aug 1st.

However, recruitment registration doesn't close until August 27th. (Early Bird registration closed on August 1st.)

Aren't the girls already at work week and school started by Aug 27th? This seems really late to me. I believe registration closed July 15 at Arkansas.

I would assume they have work week before school actually starts, and then a little "break" until rush happens in September.

Along with the upcoming work week, some chapters already had weekly work days last semester, and some have weekly work days this semester after the work week. With all the PNMs here it takes a lot of work to become familiar with all of them and make other preparations.

I'm pretty sure all of the sororities move in this Saturday (at least AOII does). Then "work week" starts on Monday. It's a fun week of workshops, sisterhood, and fun!

As far as recs go, like everyone else said, send them in now! I can't imagine any sorority would throw it away if received past their "deadline."

The two years we did it this way at Arkansas (and did I mention how happy we are that we only did it two years?) the girls met the week before school started and then weekly until mid September, too. Plus, they were scoping out the pnms in class, socially, etc! Even though rush technically started in September, the whole 5 or 6 weeks prior felt like one big rush party. The girls were 'on' all the time.