University of Missouri 2014 Recruitment
 

Hi All, I'm probably jumping the gun a little here but all the news from OSU, Auburn and Alabama has me on edge. This year, instead of reading everyone else's stories of nerves, I have my own set: my niece is going through recruitment at Mizzou! I thought all you moms and dads were a little crazy. I'm SO sorry. I totally get it now!:)

My niece is not a legacy to any house but there are a bunch of Greeks in the family at the aunt, cousin, uncle level. I know she has at least one req to each house on campus and knows someone in nearly every house. She's got all the community service, grades, activities, etc., that any house would want. So what am I worried about, right? Argh!

Here's the schedule:
Open Houses: August 18-19, Monday & Tuesday, 15 houses.
Sisterhood Round: August 20-21, Wednesday & Thursday, 11 max.
Philanthropy Round: August 22, Friday, 7 max.
Preference Round: August 23, Saturday, 3 max.
Bid Day: August 24, Sunday.

Houses at MU are:
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Phi
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

There is also a local chapter--Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi--that does not appear to participate in formal recruitment.

Anyone else out there going through at Mizzou? Or, worse, have to stay home and watch someone they love go through at Mizzou?

SAEPi is a non-NPC national sorority.

Good luck to your niece! Mizzou is a great place to be Greek at! :)

Thanks, Low D Flat. I wondered because they are on the Panhellenic list buts weren't on the recruitment materials I saw. Thanks for the correction.

So excited to hear about your girl's week!
Mizzou is a pretty amazing place- and the size of their recruitment is just overwhelming!

M-I-Z Z-O-U!!!

She will LOVE Mizzou! Best of luck to her in recruitment! Greek life there is wonderful and full of amazing women. Please keep us updated on her progress!

First update: She had a wonderful, exhausting time on the first day of open houses. She loves every chapter. 9 down, 6 to go.

Second update: finally heard from her. She's a lot less nervous than I am! She got her favorite 11 back for the first round. She hopes to get her favorite 7 back today. Her comment: I can see myself in any of these houses. They are all wonderful. She also told me about 300 girls had dropped out already but doesn't have a good source for that number so I suspect it is just gossip.

Thanks for the update, SunflowerState! Best wishes to your daughter!

Good luck to your daughter!!!

Sunflower State good luck to your daughter today and to all the PNMs! It's just wonderful that she has so many houses she's loving. I hope that continues today!

My daughter is going back to 5 houses today. Cautiously optimistic for her while realizing (and telling her honestly) that there are no guarantees.

Emotions are running high at Mizzou today (and at the homes of the Moms whose daughters are going through this!)

Thank you all for the good wishes but she's my niece, not my daughter. I claim her regardless. So, just got an update: She went back to seven on second invite. Not sure if they were her top seven but she had a full schedule. I just got an email. She got her top three back for Preference Day! She is thrilled although sweaty. The big problem: she loves them all. I think she will have a hard decision to make at the end of the day. Does anyone know what time the bids are handed out tomorrow?

Congrats to your niece!

I think bids are given out at noon, but I'm not positive.

Hopefully Pref will help her to make her decision. Good luck to her!

Sunflower state congrats to your niece! How wonderful! She is going to be happy whatever happens. As I understand it the bid day ceremony begins on the quad at noon. Not sure exactly how soon after it starts they start ripping open the envelopes. Would love to see pictures on here tomorrow!

So exciting to have three pref parties!!

Bid reveal starts at 1:00. Yay!

thanks for the clarification on bid day reveal time
 

Thanks I was mis-remembering what I read before--good to have the accurate info.

I've been chatting away on another Mizzou topic but in case anyone looks here, just wanted to say that my niece pledged KKG.

I always hate it when people don't finish their rush stories!

Cousin in law is a new Alpha Phi! (Her legacy chapter through her sister and maternal grandmother)

My girl is a happy Zeta Tau Alpha!!

Ahh.. Lovespink88 - I'm an APhi (not Mizzou) so I was hoping for that result but she had to go (and should go) where she wanted to go. Congrats to your cousin!

Congrats to all your loved ones! That's wonderful!

Congratulations on so many happy stories!

Posted this on another thread but didn't want to leave anyone hanging...my daughter pledged Kappa Alpha Theta--my sorority at Mizzou. Very fun! Congratulations to everyone.

Does anyone know the placement and released/dropped numbers?

I just know my daughter knew of quite a few girls who were released. Sad for them :(

Congratulations to all the Mizzou new members and a big welcome to ZTA to NorthernMom's daughter.

I got some info about Mizzou- nearly 2000 women went through recruitment, but several hundred withdrew during the week.
Of the women who were not matched on Bid Day, a lot of them "suicided" houses, thus, making their chances of getting matched smaller.

It is sad that women drop out of recruitment because they enter it with the mindset "Im going to be an XYZ and ONLY an XYZ". However- with Quota being 90- I think there are a lot of wonderful women who have found their home at Mizzou!

That mindset really IS sad. Every GLO has amazing women! I loved my collegiate experience, but I can truly say my alumnae experience has been even more fulfilling.

From an advisor perspective, I find this to be particularly troubling at Mizzou. Although, it does look like there was a bit of improvement from last year, where 71% of open house pool got a bit, yet this year it was 75%.

Still, that's 25% who registered and didn't get a bid! A small minority of those are women who were released from all houses, generally because of grades, but for some other reasons, too. The overwhelming majority dropped out or didn't maximize options.

I have heard of a few stories this year of women who did maximize their options and went bidless, which I didn't think was supposed to happen. Still looking into that.

It is an AMAZING greek system, and it breaks my heart when women drop out. But I don't know what the answer is. I don't know why some campuses match 90% or more of their OHP and Mizzou is relatively low.

Also - CONGRATS to all the new members, and their moms/family members here on GC who were relating their stories!! It was SO hot yesterday, but such high spirits in spite of the heat. Now the really fun part starts, with both classes starting today and the new member periods getting underway. :)

pbear19 I would love to share some thoughts on this with you