UGA Fall Rush 2010
 

Hi does anyone know what rush is like at UGA? I know its pretty competitive and just wanted to find out a bit more.
Thanks :)

Because UGA is a SEC school, it has a competitive recruitment. On the upside, a large majority of PNMs find homes there and end up enjoying their experience in a sorority.

Because of the competitive nature of SEC schools, be sure to get recs to all of the houses if you can. You will be surprised by how many women you know that were in sororities and can help you with recs.

Good luck with recruitment!

Does anyone know how many pnm's have signed up for Fall 2010 recruitment?

Every year, PNMs have questions about the same schools, and KSUViolet kindly provides them with links to informative threads. Just an idea, but what about a stickied "Schools That Are Frequently Asked About" thread so that all these links would be in one easy-to-find (you'd think) place? It probably won't stop the questions, but it might help.

And KSUViolet, if you're a member of the same Laker Nation I'm part of, you have excellent taste in basketball teams! :)

No one would read the sticky unfortunately. We'd need to name the thread the name of the school and add "FREE DESIGNER SHOES" after it (stolen from 33girl)

Excerpts from the August 9 online student paper:

Entire article at:

http://www.redandblack.com/2010/08/0...or-pnm-influx/

August 9, 2010 by DALLAS DUNCAN
Filed under Featured, Greek Life, News, Student Groups
Seven days. Seventeen houses. Sixty-eight counselors — and more than 1,100 women working their way toward new friends, “family” and unique collegiate experiences as Panhellenic sorority recruitment hits campus. . . .

Megan Janasiewicz, a student affairs specialist who serves as advisor to the Panhellenic Council, said as of July 12, 1,156 women were registered for recruitment.

“We think we’ll probably get to 1,250,” she said. “Last year we had 1,208, and the year before that close to 1,300.”

Out of those 1,250, Janasiewicz said each sorority would have a quota of between 54 and 60 new women. She said mutual eliminations occurred at the end of each of the three rounds PNMs go through during recruitment, where PNMs rank their top sororities and sororities rank their top PNMs.

. . . Janasiewicz said besides complaints about the weather, the main feedback her office gets is from parents asking why their daughter did not receive a bid into a certain sorority.

“Unfortunately, we have moms that think the world is going to end,” Janasiewicz said.

She said she tries to tell PNMs to think for themselves if their relatives or friends are trying to pressure them into choosing one sorority over the other, or choosing to withdraw from recruitment or not. . . .

I am hoping someone is going to keep us updated on UGA rush. I friend of my daughter's is rushing as a junior transfer - hoping things will work out for her - she knows it is going to be tough.

I've got TEN rec girls going through at UGA... they move into the dorms this morning and will have their pre-recruitment meeting tonight!

I think final count was 1270.

Some shots from the Athens Banner-Herald of Round 1:

http://spotted.onlineathens.com/gall....php?id=418498

Some of those outfits would definately have hit my "do not wear" list.

The girls are not as polished as the past couple of years - I'm not sure that this is a bad thing.

Oh dear!

The Snooki Effect? LOL

Please tell me that the girl wearing the blue vest w/ the flair on it is either a Rho Chi or the bus driver.

Yes, blue vest is the recruitment counselor.

I certainly didn't mean the girls were going Snooki on us...I think they look more like normal college women (most of them) and less like socialites on the page of a NY magazine. I saw a few outfits that were too short, too tight, or too formal for early rounds, but most of them looked like normal girls in sundresses rather than like little fashion models who'd spent hours on hair and makeup and a fortune on clothing. That is a good thing!

ETA: Yeah, I went back and looked at the faces, and they look more relaxed than in 2007-2009. Good for them.

LOL. I saw several of those girls with the vests in one of the pictures so they must be the Rho Chi leaders. I

Hahaha to those Rho Chi vests. "Welcome to Walmart! Have you seen all my pieces of flair??!!" But, if you have to wear it, you might as well have fun with it.

And, as usual, I see a few PNM's that look like they need to be fed. :rolleyes:

I also find it interesting to see how some PNM's look at each other.

Good luck to all at UGA.

Wow, all the girls look so hot and tired. Many girls were yawning! I agree that these look more like normal girls going through recruitment, rather than the usual UGA model parade. Maybe the heat has melted off their make up and flattened out their hair? Or it is just too hot to care. :)

The day starts early at UGA....6 am! And it's something like 112 heat index in Athens. Hot and tired both, no doubt.

I noticed the yawning too!

Maybe with the heat and the down economy, the girls just decided that the sororities can take them as is. I also know that many of the houses are going through major changes in, shall we say, reputation and status. As in there no longer seems to be a set-in-stone top (dare I say it?) tier. It will be interesting to hear back about the satisfaction levels of PNMs once rush is over. I watched friends go through back when there was a lot of nasty gaming going on and thanked my lucky stars I wasn't rushing there. If things have gotten more "chill", then we may hear about happier NMs - which they should be at Georgia anyway, given the very high quality of all the houses.

Okay, how many of us didn't have more than a few fashion missteps at this age???? (I for one would like a fashion do-over for most of the early 90's). Not trying to be the PC-police, and feel free to "no she didn't!" all you want in your head, but maybe we should keep it to ourselves. :rolleyes:

If my post came across as pointing out fashion missteps, I apologize - I just wanted to say that it was great that they looked like normal girls for a change.

I have a daughter who is going through now, they are in the Second Round today. (I am posting the little bits of news I get from her under Recruitment stories...and I hope some other moms/dads will do the same. I learned so much from reading the old threads about UGA from a couple of years ago.)

We did get a page of Recruitment Statistics in our packets at the parent orientation which was really interesting. It listed the percentages pledged, withdrawn, released and mismatched for 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2007, 74% pledged, 22% withdrew, 3% were released, and 3.9% mismatched. In 2009, 78% pledged, 13% withdrew, 4.8% were released, and 0.6% mismatched. It also broke down the number that withdrew/were released by rounds.

While Lightning Bug may be correct about the top tier at UGA not being set in stone, it is well known who the top five are.

I am assuming you mean 150, 250, 324, 338, and 440 S. Milledge. I have spoken with PNMs who are thinking outside that box, in spite of the fact that they do want the "prestige" return invites. I am encouraging that sort of thinking, in spite of the fact that I have written recs for one of those five houses.

Just got a text from Athens - there is a tornado warning right now and all the house tours are still going on. All the PNM's are hunkered down in the houses to wait it out. I'm sure it will be ok, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Does anyone know if this has ever happened before?

Since when? In my time, I would have traded out 886 & 897 for 150 & 338.

Good, I'm glad that this is not the case and there are other contenders! I think if you talk to different people, you get different answers. I was assuming that the poster in question was going "old school" with the "top five", since she appears to be the mom of a sister in one of those houses to which I referred. But the fact that you say "since when?" is great! I would hope that we couldn't come to agreement about those "top" five. That would be good news for UGA Panhellenic, especially as all the houses have stellar women, and what was "top five" in my "old school" days no longer constitutes "top five."

In any case, let's not go down this path and return to a nice recruitment thread where tornadoes go away and all houses are great choices!

I would say that "tent talk"/talk among current undergrads would agree with your original top 5 (and I just left in May). Although, after working in the Greek Life Office for two years, I can confidently say that all 17 chapters are strong and provide great experiences for it's members.

Round 2 pictures

http://spotted.onlineathens.com/gall....php?id=418503

All the ladies look so cute! So many outfits I'd love to have for myself!

Can anyone give a current update on how 440 S. Milledge is these days???

all the chapters at uga are super.

For people annoyed by number usage.

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

Ah, why thank you. If they're going to play the top tier game they might as well just say the names.

Apologies - I was trying to diffuse the "tier" talk which has gotten really nasty on another Greek site and which I thought I saw popping up on here. I thought by using numbers it would give the suggestion that all those houses on Milledge had amazing girls and were, in that sense, interchangeable. Unfortunately my attempt fell flat, and I apologize for that. No bitchiness was intended - quite the opposite in fact.

I get what you were trying to do, but it's just another form of tent talk in the end. No worries, it's just something I'm always happier to see avoided.

Does anyone know what the release numbers are like for Georgia this year?

One of my PNMs was released at 3:00 this morning. :( She was glad to get the phone call rather than showing up in a few hours only to be embarassed with no invites for round three.

I just wonder how frequently this is happening this year. Hopefully she is one of a small few.

My other PNMs are all having a great time!

My daughter said there were heavy cuts in her Gamma Chi group this morning, with many girls upset about how few events they had left for today. She didn't mention anyone dropping or being released.