Indiana University Recruitment 2022
 

IU Recruitment is here! Here are the dates (this time corrected!)

Open house: January 5th-6th Virtual (all chapters visited)

Philanthropy and service: January 8th-9th Virtual (max of 16 chapters)

Sisterhood round: January 14th-15th Virtual (max of 9 chapters)

Preference round: January 16th In Person (max of 2 chapters)

Bid day: January 18th In Person!!!

I would like to wish everybody good luck, whether you're a parent with a daughter going through, a sister trying to find her next little, an advisor who works hard for her chapter, or a PNM lurking all the recruitment threads who might be nervous. You will get through these days and hopefully find an amazing home out of it!

Super surprised there are no other posts here but I'll jump in! My OOS freshman is going through recruitment at IU. She's a legacy to my chapter but as we all know that doesn't really matter anymore since all or nearly all of the NPC groups eliminated preferential treatment for legacies in recruitment. I have quite a bit of volunteer experience, particularly in regards to recruitment. In some ways it's great because I know how it all works behind the scenes. And in some ways it's even more stressful because I know how it all works behind the scenes. :P

Rounds one and two went great! She had a full schedule of 16 events for Philanthropy. Fingers crossed things continue to go well for her, though we'll of course be surprised if she continues to have a full schedule for sisterhood since that seems rare at IU. It's going to be a looooong week of waiting!

She is of course bummed that everything has been virtual so far and sisterhood will be, too. We had so much fun shopping for outfits and wearing those on zoom isn't quite the same. (Yes, those of us who buy in completely to values based recruitment know the outfits shouldn't matter but one always wants to look and feel their best.) Making decisions in round 1 was interesting when she hadn't ever been able to talk to chapter members. We're holding out a tiny sliver of hope that maybe preference and bid day will be in person. I will say there are a few pros to having things online - no icy sidewalks to navigate, virtually no "tent talk" and my daughter was easily able to keep a running ranked list on her laptop, inserting groups as she went along, so she was ready to submit her list as soon as rounds were over.

Send us both good vibes and patience as we wait for Friday! Can't wait to see what happens next!

My daughter graduated last spring so not in the loop on rush this year. I did notice the past few years seem to be a bit more relaxed from prior years. Not to say there isn’t some drama but I’ve noticed that on here and on the IU parents group the post and questions have gone down dramatically.

My younger daughter is in a sorority at another school and Greek life there is so tame compared to IU. My oldest really enjoyed her time, living in the house, racing in the Little 500 and making life long friends.

Wishing everyone going through rush a great experience.

Good luck to your daughter!

Remember when
 

Hello,

My alumni daughter reminded me that its recruitment time at IU! I finally shared my secret with her, that GreekChat got me through her recruitment days in 2017! Along with many other worried Mom's that year.

Yes, she had new clothes, rec letters and was a legacy to a certain house on campus.

Surprised not much chatter onsite. Especially since again it's a virtual recruitment.
Good Luck to All PNM and Mom

Agreed...There's usually a lot of chatter about IU. I can't really wrap my head around the way they do their quotas. Wishing lots of luck to your daughter, Fists&Blades

They actually use RFM and follow NPC guidelines now. No more crazy bed space quota!

Thanks everyone for the well wishes! I'll keep you posted!

That's great to hear! I don't know how that bed quota system was maintained for so long!

Update!
 

DD got sisterhood invites just a bit ago! She's got a full schedule - 8 of her top 9 from philanthropy plus one more. She's a little bummed about the one that released her but absolutely thrilled with the chapters she has left! I know this next ranking is going to be tough!

Sounds like it's going well for your daughter! Glad she's happy!

Very cool! Hope things continue to go well!

That's a great schedule! I hope she has fun.

Wow, 8 out of 9 of her favorites, but still a full schedule? Amazing! Best of luck to your daughter!

It’s preference day and she got her top two choices, one of which is my sorority! I’ve told her I want her to choose what makes her moat happy but I can admit to you all there will be a tiny bit of disappointment if she chooses the other group. Hopefully she has fun today and ends with clarity about which group is the best fit. She loves them both so she can’t lose!

That's wonderful to hear! Best of luck to her and I hope she lands where she needs to be!

What great news. Please let us know where she lands.

I'm excited to see which house she chooses!

The daughter of our good friends and neighbors pledged Theta at IU last night! It was what she wanted, and she’s SO HAPPY!
(I told her dad to tell her to bring home a nice FIJI boy…)

Congratulations.

She's a THETA!
 

Last night my darling girl accepted her bid to Kappa Alpha Theta! When she was born, I was the recruitment advisor for my chapter of initiation and I swear she wasn't even two months old when she visited the Theta house for the first time. For years I'd make her a coordinating Bid Day shirt and take her to the house to see the new Thetas run home. I think the first time she missed it was when I was council member and was away at a meeting for bid day! I was a volunteer at the local, district and national levels for more than 13 years and I understand that truly all the NPC organizations offer the potential for leadership, service, sisterhood and lifelong learning, so really as she got older I just wanted her to find her panhellenic home away from home. With no legacy policy in place I was completely unsure of what would happen at IU but she found the place where she belongs and she did it all on her own. She's ecstatic! We have always been extremely close so now sharing the bond of sisterhood is just that much more special.

Confession - Fists&Blades is a new user name I created to maintain anonymity. I used to post on here regularly years ago as kiteflyerzl.

Please tell her I said welcome to Theta! I am an alumna and my daughter is also a member of PC 22!

Congratulations to Fists&Blades' Legacy and to Kappa Alpha Theta!

Congrats to your daughter and to you!

She's a THETA!

I love this so much-so happy for your both. It is fun to share a sisterhood with your daughter.

It’s a legacy year on GC! Congrats to Theta mom & daughter!

Congratulations to the two new Thetas who accepted bids last night. My daughter graduated this past May from this chapter. She had a fabulous experience there.

Congrats to your daughter and Theta! She's going to have an amazing experience.

Many of the chapters have Instagram stories up introducing their new members. Looks like there were a lot of fun Bid Night themes, too.

Welcome to Greek life at IU! Congrats to your daughter and Theta.

Congratulations to your daughter on accepting her bid to Kappa Alpha Theta!!

12 chapters are participating in spring informal recruitment, per the IU Panhellenic informal recruitment page.

Does anyone have the recruitment results? I haven't seen them posted, but could have missed it.

shadokat posted some in the recruitment #'s thread

Indiana Results thus far:

Delta Phi Epsilon 55
Sigma Kappa 44
Kappa Kappa Gamma 57
Pi Beta Phi 60
Delta Gamma 59

I think most of the chapters have group photos and/or stories/highlights listing the members of their new member classes as of Bid Day on their Instagram accounts, if anyone feels like counting. : )

Thanks Shadokat!

what are you talking about?? Surely Indiana sorority rush can't be that upsetting to you. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: