SPRING RECRUITMENT AT UGA
 

I noticed on the UGA website that all sororities are participating in Spring recruitment. This is very unusual. I was wondering if anyone knew why it is different this time. FYI to some..my daughter is not participating so I am not being a "helicopter" parent..just curious. I don't remember Ga. ever doing this.

You just can't let it go, can you? :rolleyes:

It's likely that all sororities have a few spots to fill.

I am not surprised that you would be the first to reply. Like I said I was only curious as being a former greek at Ga. I can never remeber doing a complete spring rush. I was only wondering why they changed this year.
Let go ?? Can you please get over my posts that I have admitted were wrong and move on.

Maybe they are raising total?

I hope this thread is fantastic.

You know, had you not even bothered to mention your previous helicopter parenting, I probably wouldn't have replied. Quit playing the damn martyr.

To those of you who have knowledge on this post, please reply.
OTW you average 5 posts per day on this site..where does all your knowledge come from ?? Just wondering..Get over your feelings towards me and reply with some help for some UGA girls who may be thinking about going through Spring Rush

Thanks for your reply. In my day we did not have any type of Spring Rush. I think this is great for all the girls who went through in the fall and did not pledge for one reason or another. Good luck to all of them.

Fanatstic ?? I hope you mean that some of the wonderful girls who went through in the Fall and for one reason or another did not pledge, maybe will have another chance.

And here we go again.

Hmmm.....I have the strange feeling I out of the loop about the OP and a previous post....

Anyways, back to the question....Like it has been said, its pretty simple when a sorority does informal or COB. They have spots to fill and it can because of various reasons, raised total or quota, they had members graduate, etc.

I honestly don't see what the big deal is? Most sororities participate in COB at some point, and it can be a great time to recruit members.

That would be my guess.

At some of the more competitive schools, COB doesn't happen often because the chapters regularly reach total via formal recruitment. It is also the case at these schools that if a chapter DOES have open spots, they are filled without publicized COB events (or in some cases not filled) because chapters don't want to be identified as one that is not at total and had to COB, as the chapter may not be viewed as a strong one (though that may not actually be the case at all)..

I know that at our school if a few sororities (I guess in our case it would be the majority) do not make quota they make everyone rush again in the spring regardless of how many girls each can take ours ranged anywhere from one sorority taking 5 to another taking 20. This could be a new rule implemented at UGA, and another reason other than raising total mid-way through a year.

If the MAJORITY of chapters aren't at total, of course it makes sense to have 2 rushes a year. That's often the case at smaller schools with deferred rush or not a lot of Greek interest. The thing is, that isn't the case at UGA, unless they had a buttload of girls quit this semester.

My understanding of things is as follows - UGA has been experiencing a significant dropoff in enrollment during Spring semester, due to students graduating after 4 1/2 years, dropping out, etc. Last Spring the University offered a group of high school seniors admssion for January 2009 in an effort to "up" their second semester numbers. A friend of mine's daughter, who was wait listed at the time, received this offer and happily accepted. Of course, these girls were unable to participate in Fall recruitment and my friend says UGA is addressing the issue by instating a Spring recruitment. Hope others will be able to add to this information. I would love to know how many students were admitted for second semester and if the sororities intend to increase total to accomodate them.

That makes sense - and how considerate of UGA to accomodate these girls! Hope it all goes well.

Wow, Blueangel. You are even on at the same usual time that you usually posted. And, you said Sheila's name just to show who you are. Just another priceless example of how strange you are.

You're an angry person. I'd suggest switching to a nice, tasty decaf blend :)

Reported.

Wow. That was out of left field. Where did you come from? What do you know about OTW?

Thanks for this information. Good luck to all going through.

Wow you're back too. Impressive kind of a Monday!

Isn't Blue Angel banned yet?

I'm taking screen shots of all of your posts blueangel!

Oh and I want to mention I was bullied in school, so these personal attacks really hurt me on the inside! I think everyone needs to step back and take some martial arts lessons for their self esteem.

UGA Spring Recruitment
 

ngg is correct. This is the first time in a very long time that every sorority is participating in Spring Recruitment at UGA. With so many young women entering UGA for the first time this coming January, the concern (from parents) was that the PNM would be "penalized" if they waited and went thru recruitment in the Fall since they might be considered as sophomores. Many sororities are hesitant to recruit sophomores.

I have also heard that all sororities are participating as a way of taking the supposed stigma out of Spring Recruitment. In recent years some houses that had open slots woudn't participate in the spring because the perception was that only the smaller or struggling houses participated. This is a way of evening the playing field and hopefully allowing some of the smaller houses to build up their numbers.

Sounds like a win/win to me - pnms get a shot at all the houses, and because all of the houses are participating there isn't the stigma that sometimes accompanies spring recruitment. Hope many women find a home at UGA!

This sounds more like a second formal rush - as in there will be a set quota across the board. It's to benefit the "latecomer" freshmen, not the sororities. I doubt it will "even the playing field" at all, unless the groups that are smaller COB upperclassmen like crazy while it's going on in hopes that they'll blend into the woodwork, so to speak.

I think that this is great for the new members from the fall. It will give them a chance to see rush from the other side on a smaller scale before formal rush next fall.

The info. on UGA spring recruitment this year is really interesting. Any of the UGA advisement folks/moms of active undergraduates want to let us know how the numbers are supposed to work? Is there a pre-set quota for all groups? Has total been raised? What's the new number? Is everyone simply bidding to it? Are some groups above a certain number only participating in first round?

Of course I'd welcome pms if you don't want to post, but I know we've got some UGA insiders on here.

I have to say that I find the idea that Greek Life and the university were so responsive to the new January admits kind of surprising.

That is what I heard as well....however I was under the impression that not ALL sororities would be participating...

Do you know how many PNMs will participate?

http://www.uga.edu/panhellenic/recruit/index.html

UGA's Panhellenic website says that all 17 chapters are participating.

I'm thrilled that UGa is doing this; how wonderful it is that so many women will get a chance to join sororities! My daughter took part in an architectural project to refurbish one of the houses and she says that excitement is running high for both members and PNMs!

Thanks. The last I was told about this (about 3 weeks ago) I guess Panhellenic was still working out the kinks.

Does anyone know if there will be a quota?

Is it weird to question whether all 17 chapters doing open houses necessarily equals all 17 giving bids?

What does "participating"really mean, unless this recruitment is a second formal with even groups above total getting to give more bids?

That could work out really well if the spring quota is pretty small AND groups below total get to give additional bids up to total plus whatever number quota is.

I think this is probably a really good thing although I doubt the January admits are really the driving force behind it. Has anyone seen a newspaper article about that trend or program? UGA is generally considered over-enrolled in the fall, I think, and while I'm sure the university would be eager to balance numbers between the two big semesters, I think it's really unlikely that they would address the issue by admitting enough new freshmen to have it work out. To me, it would make a lot more sense to offer more upper level classes needed for graduation only in the spring. However, I can totally see the pressure being on UGA to admit more qualified kids who want to go there and so they offer more admissions in January when they seem to have more space.

For whatever my random opinion is worth, I think the spring recruitment thing is much more about the groups and how to get more people to participate in spring recruitment than it is about responsiveness to parental concerns about when the January admits rush. (If it's a big enough number of kids to influence recruitment policy at UGA at the Greek Life level, it's a big enough group of kids for the GLOs to figure out how to handle on their own.)

This is exactly what I would guess they were responding to, especially as more and more traditionally strong groups aren't necessarily the biggest groups. Almost all groups would benefit from a chance to do spring recruitment.

[Edited to reduce my rambling commentary a little]

So basically, I guess I'm saying Yay, Spring Recruitment; boo pretending it's responsive to something other than GLOs' own interests. We can just 'fess up that we're doing this because it's good for us.