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Ole Miss Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment 2014

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Post last updated 8/6/2014

Recently added: Information on Chapter Dues (from 2013), link below the chapter web sites in this post.

Registration for Fall Formal Recruitment (Sorority Rush) - Panhellenic Recruitment Registration opens Mid-May, 2014, and closes on Aug. 29 at 11:59 p.m. CST

Aug. 23 Panhellenic Recruitment Orientation for Students and Parents - Panhellenic is working to give more information to PNMs and families regarding NPC Chapter membership: financial obligations, academic obligations/requirements, housing obligations.

Ice Water Teas - round will take place during Recruitment instead of the old practice of having it several weeks earlier and there is now a theme, Greek Day.

C.A.R.E. Walk - Aug. 27 (during Welcome Week) – This is an annual event hosted by the Panhellenic Council for which the proceeds benefit breast cancer research.
Registration for C.A.R.E. Walk -----> Click Here

Panhellenic Convocation - Sep. 7

Formal recruitment silence period will begin the day of Panhellenic Convocation through until bid distribution.
• No active sorority member, including alumnae and new members, may communicate or live with potential new members during this period of silence.
• Silence is defined as any verbal, nonverbal, written, printed, text message and electronic communication or communication through a third party.
• If potential new members live in a residence hall with a sorority member or share academic courses, only casual greetings and contact are permitted.

Recruitment Week UPDATED – Recruitment will take place the week of September 14-21 which is earlier than usual
Structure of week has changed:
Sunday - Greek Day (formerly Ice Water Teas) [PNMs attend 10 parties]
Monday & Wednesday - Philanthropy (35 minutes) [PNMs attend up to 8 parties]
Thursday & Friday- Sisterhood formerly Skit) (35 minutes each) [PNMs attend up to 5 parties]
Saturday - Preference (60 minutes) [PNMs attend up to 2 parties]
Sunday - Bid Day



PNMs and Grades

There is no minimum grade to participate but potential new members should know that virtually all of the Chapters on campus require a 3.0 GPA (as a minimum, if not more) to carry the PNM through to Preference Party. Yes, you will from time to time hear of a PNM with a lower GPA receiving a bid, this is because there were some other criteria in her favor that you and I know nothing about, and so just know that the majority of PNM's will rush by the rule and not the exception.

From Collegedata:

High School Grade Point Average of Enrolled Ole Miss Freshmen
3.75 & Above 33%
3.50 - 3.74 17%
3.25 - 3.49 15%
3.00 - 3.24 16%
2.50 - 2.99 15%
2.00 - 2.49 3%

Ole Miss Freshman High School Class Rank
Top tenth: 17%
Top quarter: 47%
Top half: 77%
Bottom half: 23%

Advice on how to obtain recommendations:
http://sororitysugar.tumblr.com/rec-letter-connection UPDATED!!!!
AND
http://www.therhok.com/2011/06/how-t...endations.html

This is a competitive recruitment campus and Letters of Reference and Recommendations should be considered to be necessary. Some folks suggest two recs per Chapter as a minimum. You may read that it is the responsibility of the Chapters to obtain letters of reference or recommendations for you, which is completely unrealistic given that roughly 1300 PNMs go through recruitment each Fall. To stand out among 1300 other young women you will have to take matters in hand. You may also hear that letters of reference or recommendations are no longer required for certain Chapters . . . repeating for the good of the order, "This is a competitive recruitment campus and Letters of Reference and Recommendations should be considered to be necessary."

FALL 2014 SCHEDULE - Dates are subject to change, Recruitment has been added. Panhellenic and Recruitment Events are in Dark Green


Aug. 1 Late Fee Added to Recruitment Registration Fees from this day forward.
Aug. 23 Panhellenic Recruitment Orientation for Students and Parents
Panhellenic is working to give more information to PNMs and families regarding membership: financial obligations, academic obligations/requirements, housing obligations.
Aug. 25 First Day of Classes
Aug. 27 C.A.R.E. Walk [During Welcome Week]
Aug. 28 Game Day v. Boise State (Atlanta)
Aug. 29 Recruitment registration closes at 11:59 p.m. CST
Sept. 1 Labor Day Holiday
Sept. 6 Game Day at Vanderbilt
Sept. 7 Panhellenic Convocation
Sept. 12-13 Ole Miss Family Weekend
Sept. 13 Game Day v. LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE

Sept. 14 - 21 RECRUITMENT WEEK
Sept. 14 Greek Day/Ice Water Teas (35 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 1
Sept. 15 Philanthropy I (35 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 2, Day 1
Sept. 16 OPEN - NO PARTIES
Sept. 17 Philanthropy II (35 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 2, Day 2
Sept. 18 Sisterhood/Skit I (35 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 3, Day 1
Sept. 19 Sisterhood/Skit II (35 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 3, Day 2
Sept. 20 Preference (60 minutes) - Panhellenic Recruitment Round 4 - NO FOOTBALL GAME
Sept. 21 Bid Day – Will likely be earlier than in the past when it was after 3 p.m.


Sept. 27 Game Day v. MEMPHIS
Oct. 4 Game Day v. ALABAMA
Oct. 6 Last Day to Withdraw from classes
Oct. 11 Game Day at Texas A&M
Oct. 13 Midterm Grades Due
Oct. 18 Game Day v. TENNESSEE
Oct. 25 Game Day at LSU
Nov. 1 Game Day v. AUBURN
Nov. 8 Game Day v. PRESBYTERIAN
Nov. 15 OPEN
Nov. 22 Game Day at Arkansas
Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Holiday Begins
Nov. 29 Game Day v. MISSISSIPPI STATE
Dec. 1 Classes Resume
Dec. 8 – 12 Final Examinations


Game Day Color Chart [Click Here]


Greek Affairs http://dos.orgsync.com/org/umgreeks/npcrecruitment

Campus Chapters: web sites
Alpha Delta Pi :
- - - - -http://www.olemissadpi.com/
Alpha Omicron Pi :
- - - - - http://olemissaoii.com/
Chi Omega :
- - - - - http://chaptersites.chiomega.com/default.aspx?site=9
Delta Delta Delta :
- - - - - http://www.olemisstridelta.org
Delta Gamma :
- - - - - http://www.olemissdg.com/
Kappa Alpha Theta :
- - - - - http://www.olemisstheta.com/
Kappa Delta :
- - - - - http://olemiss.kappadelta.org
Kappa Kappa Gamma :
- - - - - http://chapters.kappakappagamma.org/deltarho/
Phi Mu :
- - - - - http://olemiss.phimu.org/index.php?page_name=start
Pi Beta Phi :
- - - - - http://chapters.pibetaphi.org/pibetaphi/olemiss/

*** PLEASE - PM me with any additional web site updates, they will be added/changed.
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Information on Chapter Dues from 2013 (Click Here)
Information for 2014 not yet published and will come from Ole Miss Panhellenic. Note that dues and other expenses of membership may change from year to year and therefore the exact figures from 2013 may no longer apply. This information is shared so that PNMs and their families may have an understanding of the potential membership costs involved on a semester and year to year basis.
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Informative GreekChat thread on What to NOT do or say:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=30758

Questions PNMs should be prepared to answer during rush:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&postcount=134

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Ole Miss Recruitment Dates have been announced. See Post #1 in thread.

Thanks, MP!

After the IU thread, I just want to sit on MP's veranda with a spiked lemonade.

We can meet at either Boure or City Grocery for adult beverages. Campus is dry after all.

Yeah...

Can I say the fall schedule for Ole Miss just sums up the South for this Yankee: rush + football.

I like the ring of City Grocery, and I like the ring of rush and football.

I second this post.

Proud to say I will be a pnm in the 2014 recruitment! I have no clue what to expect nor do I have any personal connections to ole miss sororities so I am very excited and ready for any advice you guys have to share! Hotty Toddy!!

Get your recs lined up...2 for each chapter. Absolute must for Ole Miss.

Ole Miss recruitment is no place to wander in unprepared!!

Read last year's Ole Miss thread... ALL of it! Every word that Mary Poppins posts should be taken as absolute gold. Take all of her advice. No wiggle room, if you want to join an Ole Miss sorority.

Hotty Toddy, 2014RebelPNM!

Thetalady you almost made me choke on my tea. You know all of the advice comes from many long term GCers who help at other competitive campuses, not just Ole Miss, and not of course just me.

Would it be too early to start sending in recs?

The students just arrived last week, so I think it's a little early. However, it's not too early to be preparing your packets and making requests for letters of reference and recommendations. I've never advised Recruitment so anyone else want to chime in about the best time for the LORs and Recs to be arriving?

At Ole Miss, probably May or June.

I think it is preferable to send them BEFORE spring classes end if you can.... better to get on the radar before they go home for summer.

After reading the forums I realize that going in with absolutely no connections is extremely detrimental. How can I help offset this downfall?? Will the fact that I don't know anyone and probably won't have the opportunity to meet anyone cause me to get dropped??

Recs have nothing to do with knowing anyone at Ole Miss. And since recruitment is several weeks after school starts, you will meet people once you are there.

You will be surprised by all the opportunities you will have to meet girls. All you have to do is to start asking around. My daughter decided to attend Ole Miss not knowing a soul. My husband’s business partner attended Ole Miss and was able to introduce my daughter to his niece who was a Tri Delta. My neighbor has a friend who also attended Ole Miss who was able to introduce my daughter to several Chi Omegas. After we attended our local Panhellenic workshop, we met a wonderful alumna from Ole Miss who introduced my daughter to a few Kappa Deltas and a really sweet Phi Mu. These girls she met all invited her up to visit in the spring to stay with them. She met a Pi Phi while at a concert with friends over the summer. All of these sororities plus AOPi invited her back after the first round. She preffed Tri Delta, Kappa Delta, and Chi Omega. She received a bid from Tri Delta. If you ask her, she had a perfect rush.

She was a DG and a Kappa legacy. Both DG & Kappa dropped her after the first round which shows that legacy status really means nothing at Ole Miss. Of course, she didn’t know anyone in those two houses and those were the only two houses that dropped her. (I’m not sure where she stood with Theta as they dropped off her invite list after the first round as well)

After classes start, it’s not impossible to meet girls, but it is harder because the rush rules prevent contact between PNM’s and actives unless it is class related.
My older daughter attends another school and went into rush much the same way. Sorority Alumnae are always eager to make introductions! My advice to you would be for you to start asking around. Contact your local Panhellenic Association and ask if they know any ladies who attended Ole Miss. When you start your search for Rec writers, ask them if they have any contacts at Ole Miss. Ask at church, ask your teachers, ask your neighbors, ask your grandparents friends, you just never know when you are going to turn over a rock with a gem underneath!

Also spruce up your social media! Use Facebook and Instagram as a marketing tool to market you. This is likely where the actives will go first to “get to know you” if they find something interesting on your resume. Post flattering pictures doing fun activities. But whatever you do, take all pictures off that show cups or cans or bottles of any kind! Sororities want to have fun; they just don’t want to get into trouble having it. They don’t like taking risks with girls who are portrayed on their social media pages as wild! Over the summer limit your bathing suit pics to one or two, don’t be that girl who post one inappropriate picture after another. Trust me, after you submit your resume and rec letters – The girls (and the Alumnae) are watching EVERYTHING YOU DO, especially if they see something they like!

At least this was our experience..... For the record, my daughter could have seen herself in any one of the Ole Miss sororities and has friends in all of them. Whatever you do, do not listen to all the chatter about which are top houses or which are not so great. ALL THE HOUSES AT OLE MISS ARE GREAT! Keep your options open and know that there is literally a house for everyone! Rush was stressful, but bid day was one of the best days of my daughters life! Good luck to all PNM's going through next year!

Hearttoheart, thank you so much for this post. One of my daughter's best friends plans to go through Ole Miss recruitment this fall, and she has no connections there plus will be first-generation Greek so I am doing everything I can to support her.

I am grateful to all the Ole Miss insight provided here! Y'all are a wonderful asset. Many thanks.

This year they are tying in Open House with recruitment, not a month prior like in past years. Releases will be made after Open House round, unlike past years. So this year there will be 4 rounds of recruitment, not 3.
And I think there is still debate about the struture of recruitment now there are 10 chapters. Whether or not to have 3 pref choices like before or 2. Seems funny to me to go from 9 chapters to 10 but reduce pref choices to 2 from 3. But 2 is what the Green Book guide recommends with a panhellenic with 10 NPC chapters.
This will be a transition year at Ole Miss...the first in many years.
Will be interesting to see how it goes. Looking forward to another visit to Oxford in September!

I had heard about going from 3 pref choices to 2 pref choices. When I went through recruitment at Ole Miss way back in 1996 we still had 10 chapters and I know we had to rank 3. So is this move more RFM based or just to help women with finding a home better? So would you be able to go to just 2 pref parties or the normal 3? Seems like this approach could have its pros/cons.

Nice article...Theta, AOII, Phi Mu, ADPi (and maybe some other groups I'm forgetting) have had African American members in the past...so I'm not sure why this is on the front page now. But great article regardless.
http://thedmonline.com/making-progress/

If the article is accurate and the school really is trying to promote diversity and inclusion NOW is the time to get the word out while young women are making their final decisions about what school to attend. If you want to go to a traditional old south school but would like to also have more than the bare minimum of modernity, Ole Miss just said they are ahead of Bama. Right wrong or indifferent is irrelevant. This is marketing.

Really good points!

In my admittedly biased opinion, it was rude, misleading and unprofessional to have left out any mention of the other sororities at Ole Miss that have already pledged women of color. This article makes it sound like KD is the only sorority to admit AA girls.

But Abney isn’t just another number — she’s a game changer.

I beg to differ. The game had been changed long before this young woman came to Ole Miss.

But the article points out that she pledged a "top" white sorority. I guess the others weren't game changers since they weren't "top."

:eek: how very Panhellenic of you to throw half of the sororities at Ole Miss under the bus. Pledging AA young women doesn't matter if it is not done by a "top" sorority?

That what the article was implying, not irishpipes herself.

Hmmm now I have to agree with what you all have said. I didn't think that earlier. But I do wonder what the other African American women who pledged & initiated with NPC groups on campus would think now. It would be nice to hear their stories of recruitment too (of course if they wanted to share). And why didn't the author do some research? There are at least 3 or 4 African American women currently in other NPC groups. The first African American woman I know of pledged when I was sophomore in 1997. Then in the early 2000s there were more women who joined NPC groups.

ETA: Hopefully I didn't swerve this thread too much...

I remember an AA girl came through my sophomore year which would have been 1991- I could be wrong but I want to say she was the first AA to ever participate in formal recruitment- (Sigma Chi pledged the first AA male that year as well I believe)--- we were told prior to the beginning of recruitment that she had "no intentions" of pledging an NPC group but wanted to go through for the experience. I had the pleasure of rushing her during "Coke Round"- (I think this is now philanthropy)- and was quite honestly CRUSHED when, as promised, she dropped out of recruitment right afterwards (prior to skit). I know for a fact that we as well as my roommates sorority had her on our invite lists for skit. She ended up pledging AKA -- I lost touch with her after that but always wondered why she went through if she had no intention of pledging and if she ever regretted not finishing and seeing where she would have ended up… or if she was completely happy just to see how NPC worked and knew deep down her "home" was with an NPHC.

Anyway- yes the thing that made me mad with this article was the implication that because none of the other girls had pledged one of the perceived "top" then it didn't really count… however I was very interested in learning that "5 of the traditionally black organizations had pledged white members"- (direct quote from article)- I guess I had never thought about the "reverse" before- a white individual breaking into a traditionally AA organization.

Now lane swerving back- I can't even begin to imagine pref being cut down from 3 to 2- there were 10 sororities there back when I came through and we still preffed 3-- I only see chaos, not to mention brutal cuts, if this is reduced to 2… (then again it is a whole new game since I went through) :-)

Kimbrely Dandridge who pledged Phi Mu in 2010 did many interviews about her experience.

http://acwhittaker.wordpress.com/201...s-in-disarray/

Big news! Happy to report that my DD was just named a Gamma Chi for fall recruitment. Seems like just yesterday she was a PNM. Hotty Toddy!

Congratulations!

Please note as of today, the calendar information and dates in the first post on this thread have been updated to reflect current and new information.

That's awesome! She will get to experience recruitment from a completely different point of view!

I might need to change my user name now that my DD has decided to go to Ole Miss. Because the date for Ice Water Teas has moved to the beginning of Recruitment will they have cuts after this round and will the dress change from nikes and t- shirts to something more dressy?

We know that much like in cop shows on TV, articles written about sororities are often in the range of misleading to wrong, whether well-intentioned or not. I wrote off the "game changer" thing as naivete or possibly a KD on the newspaper staff who has an inflated sense of self.

My perception has been, while there are very few women of color in NPC chapters at Ole Miss, it is not due necessarily to discrimination. You can't pledge girls who aren't there!

And why aren't they there?