University of Alabama Sorority Recruitment
 

University of Alabama Panhellenic announced 2647 women had registered for sorority recruitment August 2017. Formal recruitment will take place from August 11-August 19. Bid Day is August 19th. This is the largest number of women registered for Greek recruitment at any university/college in the nation.

Alabama will welcome Sigma Kappa to the campus in 2018.

Best wishes to all potential new members.

Good lord that's a high amount. If no women dropped that would make quota 165, which some chapters are probably going to get anyways with quota additions...

They need more than SK to also colonize. Holy cow! Of course, I'd love to see us back at Bama.

Is there space to build new housing on campus? Obviously Sigma Kappa's going to have a house one way or another or they wouldn't be colonizing but I wonder what it looks like after that.

Yes there is room for several houses. Two of the old ones are being used as "swing" houses for those building new so those would be available at some point. Also there are at least two other locations that can be made available.

From white I understand, as of yesterday morning (beginning of Round 3) only a handful of PNMs had been released by the sororities. Most of the 130 or so that quit did it voluntarily, or didn't show up to begin with.

Has anyone heard why they went from 9 parties today to 7? Did a lot of girls get cut or did a lot drop out?

No huge drop out numbers.....
They set up that schedule last spring and it goes in the Greek Chic handbook, which is printed and handed out at Convocation....printed well in advance, of course.
It just worked out with the numbers that they could lop off two parties. More rest for everybody.

Don't know for sure but I would guess that this schedule was drawn up well in advance to be printed in Greek Chic and The number of parties necessary was based on the possibility of having more women participate than even last year's large numbers, which did not happen. Therefore, they could give everyone a little lighter schedule and a little more sleep!

Less stress for everyone!

The report I received puts this year's quota at 140.

Gamma Phi Beta welcomed 159 new members today!

Is that freshman only or both together?

Freshman quota was 130. Upperclassman quota was 10.

So exciting about Sigma Kappa!

Not many groups left who aren't at Alabama now

They have huge chapter and pledge class sizes! Sounds like they need more than Sigma Kappa to colonize. What happened to Delta Phi Epsilon, didn't they present a few years ago?

Yes, they did. PH did not extend them an offer.

Who is missing at Alabama? Is the list below it?

Sigma Kappa
Alpha Xi Delta
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Phi Sigma Sigma
Delta Phi Epsilon
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Sigma Tau

And TPA

While Sigma Delta Tau does not participate in formal recruitment, we are all hoping that once construction is done and things settle down, SDT will return to this side of camus and again participate fully. That will make them more visible and help them grow even more.

I'm hoping for Alpha Xi's return after Sigma Kappa :D

Can someone enlighten me on why SDT doesn't participate in formal recruitment at Bama?

I'm so excited for SK's colonization this fall!

For one thing,their house is not where the others are. It could also be that they want to be mostly Jewish. I know AEPhi does separate recruitment at some schools where the chapter is primarily Jewish.

Someone on this board-Titchou I think-said that a long time ago the traditionally Jewish chapters did a separate recruitment exclusively for the Jewish women at Alabama (although I don't think the Jewish women had a choice in which recruitment to go through). I wonder if any of those chapters ever participated in an integrated recruitment before the other ones closed, or if SDT ever has.

I figured since they're all panhel, they'd all participate in FMR. also read that SDT is rather diverse, with an AA president at some point.

SDT is open to women of all faiths and does pledge women of all faiths...and has since I was in school in the early 1970s.
The women themselves chose to not participate in formal recruitment a number of years ago...make that decades ago.

(Full disclosure - I am not an SDT but I am a U of Alabama alumna and still work with our chapter there.)

The chapter's house was originally on sorority row. Numbers shrank over the years - the campus lost two or three other NPC groups and SDT suffered as well. They had always been more selective in pledging. Ultimately they could not maintan the house. With their national's permission, the chapter continued to meet at the Hillel Foundation and continued to pledge a few women each year via COB.

The house was rented to a succession of fraternities and sororities whose houses were undergoing remodeling or new construction.
Recruitment numbers began to grow, and SDT began pledging more members, still through COB. The chapter rents a university-owned house close to what we call new fraternity row. There are several of these university-owned houses together. Theta Tau occupies one, NPHC groups and fraternities occupy the others.

SDT continues to conduct its own separate recruitment, as does Alpha Delta Chi, the Christian sorority which is unhoused. Their numbers, I'm pleased to report, continue to grow.

Delta Gamma returned to campus in 2011, and Sigma Kappa will return this fall. ALL the sororities have built new houses or are in the process of building new houses. Once the "fruit basket turnover" ends of sororities occupying "swing houses" (3 old sorority houses) while the new house is being built, perhaps SDT can return to sorority row and remodel one of the current older houses, or build a new one.

I do hope an Alabama SDT member will appear and correct me!

Yes,when I went thru in 1963, all 3 traditionally Jewish groups at that time,had a separate rush that ran at the same time as the other groups. Everyone went to Ice Water Teas-first day - and then they split off. I don't know about in years after I left in 1966.

Thank you.

Crazy BIG pledge classes. I wonder if it negatively effects the sorority experience in any way. Guess not since they keep getting lots of girls signing up.

The large pledge class experience wouldn't affect the number of PNMs signing up, I would think it would affect upperclass retention more so.

Anyone know what's going on with SK? It says on Facebook they're having open house tonight.

(I don't know why I am so excited about this.)

According to the SK at University of Alabama facebook page it's an info session at 7.

But you see, they don't any different.