Maximum parties you can attend - what's yours?
 

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My school only has 2 Panhellenic chapters (and none of the locals are associate members). The only cuts occur before Pref. Before that, everyone has to go to both chapters. On pref, it could be 1, 2, or none. It's Wed-Fri with Bid Day on Saturday.

ETA: This is UC Santa Cruz.

Yeah, that except at the school I advise at, it is Thursday-Saturday with Bid Day on Sunday :)

4 and 4 (first day splits chapters into two days)-6-4-2
except we have a colony this year and I think the PNMs have a presentation or something for that so it might be 9-6-4-2 except you couldn't go back to Tri-delt. I don't exactly have that information yet.

Our school seems to change every year, but I'm going thru rush right now and it's 8-6-4-2.

ETA: I think the schedule and/or events change every year, not the number of sororities that you are able to go to.

University of Akron (semi-formal recruitment)
First three days, the PNMs must see all five houses in the three days allotted (they can go to all five one day, 2 one day, 3 another, etc... it's up to them)
Then Philanthropy is 4-it used to be 3, this is new this year.
Pref is 2.

Eastern Kentucky University

Eight chapters on campus.

8-6-4-2 and then Bid Day

at Miami its 7-5-3-2, excpet since we just switched to deferred recruitment, this year will be a little different because its comprised on 2 weekends with a week in between. I'm really not sure how that is going to work yet.

Our recruitment is going to be a little crazy this year. With four chapters, we always did 4-4-3-2. They voted after recruitment this year to eliminate one of the days with a "frills" party, to do 4-3-2. But then we lost a chapter, so I think this time it's going to have to be 3-3-2. It usually takes place over 1 week with Bid Day the day after Pref, but it looks like it will be shorter now.

I believe at Iowa State it's 13-->9-->6-->3-->Bid Day. I know they increased the number of chapters women can attend for Pref Night from 2 to 3 last year.

University of Kansas
 

There are 13 NPC orgs on campus.

Open House rounds take two days. This year, we visited 3 the first night and 10 the next day.

After that, it goes 8-5-3.

We do 3-3-2.

Ok, so there are 19 sororities at University of Illinois!!

This year we had 2 days of open house (9 the first day and 10 the second). So....

19, 13, 7, 3

This is SO much better than when I was there. We went 22-8-5-3. 22 to 8 WTF?

University of Missouri
 

14 sororities participate in formal recruitment.

14 (open house - divided up over 2 days)
10 (sisterhood day)
6 (philanthropy)
3 (pref)


(Waaaaay back when, when I went through the process formerly known as "rush," ;) there were 17 sororities. We did 17 split between 2 days, then 8, 5, 3. We also had lots of singing, cookies, skits, decorations...so different from the no frills recruitment now.)

At CU, we have nine houses. We do 9--7 (philanthropy)--5 (skits)--3 (preference)

When I went through, there were ten houses; the only difference was the first datebook was split into two days (five the first and the other five the second).

At Maryland we went 18 - 10 - 4 - 2. That was a long time ago though and there are only 14 on campus now.

Paging VioletPretty! How is being done these days?

Haha even though I'm not in a sorority our rush works with this

Single Round, but two seperate days:
7
6 ?? I think...whatevers on campus numbers

then
6

then
3

Then bid day next day.

^^^No...the U of Arkansas does

Round 1 - 8
Round 2 - 6
Round 3 - 4
Pref Rnd - 2
Bid Day

Each year the rounds are broken up based on the actual recruitment schedule and how it fits around school activities, so some years round one can be over two days, other years a diffferent round is split, etc. Two years ago, we interrupted rush for a home football game.

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

Haha I know.

I was doing our formal fraternity recruitment, since we have similar formats.

Four days is tight enough, let alone three. V. v. bad plan.

11-8-5-2

The Chapters do 4 preference parties, but the girls only go to 2. There is a new chapter that is going to colonize in the spring so next fall it should go 12-8-5-2. We do bid day the following day after pref.

KC, I think it is doable. I'm not sure it would have an impact on the RFM's because your strong Chapters would still need to cut based on past results (first day of recruitment is first day no matter how many parties you have). To me it seems like it might make it all around easier until there are more groups on campus. It seems kind of weird to only eliminate 1 group after each round. I would be open to the plan.

I would follow the advice of your RFM Specialists and your NPC Area Advisors. If the RFM Specialties that works with your campus is recommending going from 5 days to 4 days, there is a reason. Your Fraternity/Sorority Advisor and Panhellenic should know this reason so ask.

A campus I work with has the same schedule as the one you described and it was recommended that they not go down to four days. The answer is all the numbers and RFM works. Your NPC Delegates would also be involved in that conversation so you can go to them and their team for guidance.

Good luck!

At my alma mater, they now do 6-4-2.

At the school where I volunteer, they go 8-6-4-2.

This is the information on the parties at Ole Miss.
September 23rd: Philanthropy Parties

September 24th: Philanthropy Parties

September 25th: Skit Parties

September 26th: Preference Round

September 27th: BID DAY!!!

If they have 9 sororities and two days of philanthropy parties would the schedule be
9,9 6,3? I am trying to clarify this myself. If someone could clarify if this is correct or not for Ole Miss.

I'm a freshman at Ole Miss, and will be rushing next week. SUPER excited, by the way.

The order is 9 (4 or 5 Wednesday, 4 or 5 Thursday), 6, 3 as you said!

University of Alabama.
15 chapters on campus.
Ice Water Tea-15 houses, 2 days.
Philantrophy-11 houses, 2 days.
Skit-7 houses, 1 day.
Pref-3 houses, 1 day.
Bid Day! :)

At Dartmouth, we have 3 rounds (although often the rounds are split into two days for scheduling purposes). Last year we had 7 sororities, and we have 8 now.

We did 7-4-2 last year and it worked well. I think it might be difficult to pull of with 8 sororities, but 3 rounds worked just fine for 7 groups. Cutting down a day/round will increase the cuts for high-performing sororities, but it shouldn't double them.

RFM recommendation for 5 sororities is a three day/round process, I believe 5-3-2.

Plus, I wholeheartedly advocate shortening the rush process. It's so stressful/time-consuming for both members and PNMs (not to mention expensive), and generally the result will be the same even with a shortened process (the beauty of RFM).

22 to 8 is a ridiculous cut!

At Ohio State (currently) we have 4 rounds and we go: 14, 10, 6, 3.