2007 Recruitment
 

Hi girls, did a search, didn't see an ongoing status/ results thread for this year.

Been talking to my girls, we have 10 seriously interested and tonight is Bid night... i'm so excited!!! 10 for fall is HUGE (for us, and for any chapter on my campus)
We're also having major competition with a chapter that is recolonizing on campus, thus eliminating any pledge period and allowing them to be founding members..... sigh...
i'm keeping my fingers crossed!!!

Good Luck!

We gave out 10 bids and 8 girls are accepting! The other two are not accepting their bids this semester due to time/money concerns. This was our first rush week so we're extremely happy with the results! :D

YAY! i just found out that we gave out 9 bids, and 4 accepted, but there is one girl i know who is my best guy friend's sister and I know she's interested, so i'm hoping I can talk to her. There is also COB, where we get most of our girls.
i'm so happy for you girls!! yay! congratulations!!

That is so awesome!!! CONGRATULATIONS!! :D

Ok, so one of the girls we did not give a bid to has been confronting sisters and asking them why she did not receive a bid. I just sent her an e-mail letting her know that member selection is private, but I was wondering what to do if she continues to hound us about it.

I Pm'd you.

If she continues harassing you and your sisters, report her to the campus police.

Thanks for all of the advice! :) Hopefully the email I sent her will be enough and we won't have to go to campus security. Only time will tell!

KSU - Thank you SO much for linking me to that thread! You would not believe (ok maybe you would) how similar these two girls are. The girl gave me the creeps since day 1. I won't go into details here because you never know who is reading, but let me just say that we're all happy we made the decision we did.

Oh, and by the way, this girl plans on coming out to our Spring 08 rush events :eek: She really asked a sister if she would have a better chance in the Spring since she already went through rush this semester!

The active chapter is participating in fall open house this saturday. I don't believe they will be taking any new members (by choice), but I hope they make a good impression and we can pull the girls back for winter/spring recruitment :).

GOOD LUCK! :D

some positive
 

omega phi delta, community sorority, will be inviting three women for membership to our group next weekend!:)

CONGRATULATIONS! :D

We're the second oldest local on our campus (NYU), and we've been struggling with membership for a while now... (Our last class over 2 people was my big's in fall '04, which had 5... since then it's been 2 (both graduated), 1 (our president), 1 (me), 2(our last class this past spring.)

BUT this fall we switched over to formal rush (I was recruitment chair) and we got 4 girls from recruitment, (which is usually impossible for us), snapped another girl, then COBed 2 more. Sadly a girl I really liked from our original 4 dropped due to worrying about her school work, but we still have 6 excited girls, 4 freshmen and 2 sophomores.

Now I'm just worried about making sure no one else drops! No one in the sorority is really into cute stuff like decorating bid cards, bid glasses, picture frames, etc. except for me... I LOVE that stuff and it might be lame, but I think it really endears girls to the sorority and keeps them into it even when they're stressed with school/work/etc. SO, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas for me? What kinds of cute non ritual things do you do for you new girls? ANY idea is welcome!!

Congrats on everyone's recruitment!!! It seems it was a good fall for locals! :D :D

Our new girls loved the pledge ribbons we gave them...they wear them all the time! :D

Don't they have to wear them? lol :p jk

Well, they don't HAVE to. We did ask them to display them as much as possible though..which they love to do!

congrats on your alpha pledge class! what do the pledge ribbons look like? are they your colors on a pin, or did you incorporate any of your symbols?

Thanks!! Our pledge ribbons are our colors on a pin - sort of like the breast cancer ribbons but with 3 colors (hot pink, silver, light pink).

How do you post pics on here? I have a group photo of our Alpha girls wearing the ribbons...

I'm not sure how to post pics...every time I try, it doesn't work :(
On the quick reply toolbar, there is an "insert picture" button..did you try that?
What do your sister pins look like?

Well, I guess you can't really see the ribbons that well :( Anyway, these are the beautiful ladies of the Alpha pledge class! :D

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...n/Untitled.jpg

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This is our first semester, so we do not have pins for actives (it would cost too much money at the moment). We decided that we're going to use lavaliers unless we can come up with another idea! Any suggestions?

we gave out 10 bids and 7 accepted. we are also having 3 open rush events in hopes of getting at least 3 more new members before the first ritual and start of new member education. we did REALLY well this semester. on our campus there are 8 national and 1 local (us of course) sororities and normally we are no competition for them, but this year after bid day was done and over, i heard some girls saying i can't believe they got "sally" and "suzie" becuase i know that "XYZ" (one of the "big" sororites on campus) gave her a bid and really wanted her. also, the fact that we are very small (we started fall 07 with 10 active members) makes it really unbelievable how many new members we got through structured rush.

And to think I almost talked our girls out of doing structured rush so we could focus on open rush.

As an update, we have 8 awesome girls, I went up there this weekend and met all but 1 of them who had gone away. Like Sigphisunshine, there are 3 national orgs, and we're the only local. We used to be no competition, but the last 2 years we def have, it's great :)

this is 7 of them :) btw this is at a "sports" mixer before they started new membering

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h3...07041_1800.jpg

Congrats to everyone!!!!! :D