UTK Sorority Recruitment
 

I am currently an upcoming freshman and am planning to rush this fall at The Univesity of Tennessee Knoxville. I was wondering how competitive it is there, any tips for rush and about the sororities. Thanks!!

To find our what we have said, Google: Greekchat Knoxville. The results will look like this,

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=118820
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=106337
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=118833

It's an SEC school so it is competitive and you need recs.

i only know like 1 person to get recs from...how is another way i can get them?

Yes it's competitive
 

I know there are several groups who don't pledge anyone who has a g.p.a. under 3.0

ASK EVERYONE. Family friends, relatives, teachers, people at church/synagogue, anyone who was ever anywhere near a college. Also, ask the 1 person you do know for help finding recs for other sororities. They won't be offended.

Unless you are a member of that chapter of that group, you really can't comment on membership selection procedures and who will or will not receive a bid.

Talk to any female college graduates you know and ask them if they are members of sororities or know women who are -- your teachers, church members, workplace contacts, parents' friends, relatives, etc.

LOL I think I just did!

I guess I should say - you really can't comment and actually know what the hell you are talking about.

You knoweth not that you knoweth not.
 

I don't comment (unlike many others) on every thread. I only speak with such specificity when I do know the actual school and are in touch with the current requirements for several groups.

utgirl94, I hope you have a terrific experience with recruitment for UT. You'll receive lots of opinions on here -- take them all with a grain of salt.

I speak as a sorority alumna who actually attended Tennessee and participated in rush there. It is very competitive. Get your recs; a minimum of one for each sorority. Start talking to everyone you know. Practice your conversation skills.

As far as membership selection goes regarding GPA or any other criteria, that information is confidential. Worrying about your GPA now is pretty much like closing the barn door after the horse has been let out. Present yourself as best you can, keep a positive mindset, be open to every sorority on campus (there truly are no bad sororities there) and you will more than likely be successful.

I'm so jealous of you getting to go through now that sororities have houses. The panhellenic building has always been quite a sight on bid day, but the houses are going to all be so nice.

Please keep us on how things go for you. Go Vols! Hope the football season this year is better than it has been recently.

I'm sure they would appreciate a NONMEMBER blabbing all around the internet that their MS requirements are open to whoever is nosy enough. Stay classy.

I don't know why the OP would be interested in any other group's membership selection requirements. Everyone here knows that Chi Omega is the only sorority that matters anywhere.

*snort*

Lane swerve/

Beyond the outsider-in-our-business and loose-lips-sink-ships kind of thing, how is what NutBrnHair said that different than the posts in the GPA thread? Is the GPA thread only talking about the official and documented minimum gpa requirements? Serious questions and no disrespect intended.

/Lane swerve

Alabama Panhel has a good page about recs.
http://www.uapanhellenic.com/index.p...d=15&Itemid=32

You need to rethink this before you give up. Your best recs are going to come from people you know personally. You need to talk to every female that you know who has gone to college and ask if she is Greek or if she knows any women who are Greek.

Bolded mine...many girls think it's up to them and their connections, but Moms typically know many more college graduates than 18 year old high school students.

Point being...leverage any women that might know you or OF you via your family.

It's a little more nuanced than that.

National groups have GPA requirements. I *think* this is public information for every group. However, some chapters also publish their own requirements, and these have to be at least as high as the national requirement.

Sometimes, the actual requirements are in reality much higher than what is published. Other times, those requirements are bent for an exceptional PNM or extenuating circumstances.

So, we can talk about 1) what is published and 2) what is generally required to pledge, but nobody can know the absolute rules for groups other than their own.

Makes sense, thanks.

Delta has National gpa requirements and there are colleges and universities that have increased the requirements for their own purposes. This is publicized. If a Delta chapter has unofficial and unpublicized requirements, that is something that can vary and is not shared with everyone.

The other issue is whether you would be comfortable stating that, as a supposed authority, the XYZ chapter of Delta has a higher GPA requirement, as does ZPhiB and SGRho at the same institution.


ETA: Even if you could make the statement that you personally knew 6 XYZ aspirants and three with lower than 3.0s did not get in, while the three with higher than 3.0s did, unless you were in the membership selection room, you don't know for sure that GPA was the reason. There could have been another common denominator....or maybe a variety of reasons that had nothing to do with GPA.

I would neither state that for my own collegiate chapter's undocumented requirements nor those of another Delta chapter's, let alone those of Zeta and SGRho. :)

Because I'm the one who said it. Heck, I didn't even mention the names of the groups! LOL

Only if the GPA thread is also talking about the unofficial and undocumented gpa requirements. ;)

I think this is worth quoting. I wrote for a darling girl a couple of years ago who probably didn't make minimum GPA for my group on that campus (and I don't know what that is because I didn't go there, but am guessing it was higher than what she had). She had the unfortunate circumstance of having lost a family member her sophomore year of HS. Completely unexpected. She went to a super competitive private HS, and flat out tanked that year. However, in looking at her grades, she slowly picked herself up and kept going. Not great overall, but finished as strong as she could. Darling girl, great extra-curriculars, etc... Had a wonderful rush & got what she wanted even though she probably didn't have the "right" GPA. Everyone knew the story & cut her slack for that.

Point being...there are no hard and fast rules in the world of NPC recruitment!

So true. Exceptions are sometimes made.

From the University of Tennessee webpage -
http://admissions.utk.edu/undergradu...irements.shtml

» How competitive is our admissions process?
The middle 50 percent of the fall 2010 admitted class had score ranges of 1110 – 1300 (SAT CR + M) or 24-29 ACT and a core high school GPA range of 3.42-4.0.

One should consider that this is probably also reflective of the going through recruitment. Thus, someone with a 3.0 GPA entering UT would be well within the lower 25% of the incoming class.

Perhaps if they had a serious health issue in high school or were coming from a foreign country they would have some circumstances that would account for a lower GPA but they would need to be sure to tell people that.

Did I miss something? Don't see where the OP commented about her GPA and she didn't edit her original post. Is there another thread where she discussed her GPA?

No, you didn't miss a thing.

It has nothing to do with the OP's GPA. The discussion started with this reply about why it's a competitive recruitment: