Small School Recruitment
 

do we need another recruitment story???




YES

im a GCer under an alias

here's my story

4 sororities (greek alpabetical)
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Chi Omega
Gamma Phi Beta
Sigma Sigma Sigma

4 top baby names (2006) (not in any order)
Emily
Emma
Madison
Isabella


recruitment wasnt that big at my school but there were about 100 girls going through split into 4 groups

important people (names changed)
ALI- one of my rho chi's
MARI-a girl in my group who also lived im my building
SARAH- another girl in my building and group
ELISE- the girl that i talked to between groups... not in my building
ASHLEY- the girl that i wanted to be (she had it all and talked to anybody really easily)

i missed day 1 (welcome night- no parties, just meeting rho chi's exc.)
day 2...

Under Alias! I can't wait!

See what you started? ;) :p

i stole the idea from you!! haha

Day2
im going to stay with a constant order but not the order that i visited them in

Emma- they were nice girls and they would be great for some but to me they were just nice girls. i only met a few of them but they were all just ok. i was still going to have an open mind about them, after all it was just the first night

Emily- they were ok, again, nice girls, but not really my favorite. i sorta had to carry the conversation, not the best recruiters. maybe it was just because it was at the end of the night and they weren't still as entusiastic as they were before.

Madison- i really liked them, easy conversation, they kinda overwhelmed me cause at one point i looked around and all the other pnm's had one, maybe two actives talking to them and i had 4. i met probably 8 of them

Isabella- i loved them the minute i walked in. one of the leaders form orientation took me by the arm at the door and showed me around! i loved her, she even remembered meeting my mom at orientation and asked how she was. i met like 10 of them on just the first night.

so even though we couldn't cut anyone until pref night i still had them ranked in my head
Isabella was my fav
then it was madison
then the emma's
emily was at the bottom

this was the general consensus (sp??) with the people that i talked to. elise liked madison more and mari was pessemistic (sp??) about the whole thing, sarah was overly entusiastic and ashley wouldnt tell us

Philanthropy day (Day 3) to come...
but im really bad at waiting so it'll probably be sooner rather than later

Yayyyy I love how you stole this from me! I'm pulling for Isabella (or...whatever Gamma Phi is!)

well you'll just have to wait and see... and remember, first impressions aren't everything

ok i dont really care if anybody is reading but its fun to relive the expierence of recuitmentso here's day 3, aka philnthropy and financial day

Emily- i had a nice time with them. i really liked their philanthropy bacause it tied into what i did for a job, and what my eventual career os going to be.

Emma- again, awkward. i just didn't fit. other girls were begining to like them a little more. their philanthropy was not something that i could relate to

Madison- they were recruiting me REALLY hard. probably because they found out that my mom was in a sorority on campus. (maybe theirs and mabe another one... im not telling) their philanthropy was something that i liked and could relate to. i really like them today

Isabella- they were really sweet. the same girl from the last night greeted me at the door making the singing and chanting a little less intimidating which was good. i was ok with their philanthropy but they did alot with other organizations other than their actual philanthropy.

my list was the same as the day before
isabella
madison
emily
emma

day 4 was a little more dressy...

PNMfall06, I'm enjoying reading these recruitment stories especially since I went to a small women's college with no Greeks and my daughter is planning to go through formal recruitment at her college in the fall. Her school discourages girls from going through recruitment as freshman (although many girls do) so she'll be at no disadvantage being a sophomore

Yes they do and no matter how big or small the Greeks are, they do try to be seslctive.

They fell they have the right to select those that fit for them. They are correct.:)

Not quite sure if I understand your post Tom Earp. And, unless you know her school, I wouldn't make such a blanket statement.

Don't worry. We usually need a translator for his posts.

i think he just means that small schools can be selective and find the girls that are the best fit for them just like the bigger schools

day 4, business casual,

I went to today a little less sure of where i would belong. i knew i really liked madison and isabella and i wouldnt be incredibly bummed if i became an emily. emma was also getting better. so i went into each party with an open mind.

Emma- this night made them a little less impressionable. i was with the same girl all night and she just thought that we were one in the same. she was on the cheerleading squad too (she cheered for games and i was stricly a competition cheerleader) but i had never talked to her. they made a big mistake by having one of the pho chi's in their slide show, and tried to cover it by switching the slide quickly, (everyone had already seen it), i dunno their impression just weakened with me this night, not that they were doing anything wrong, it was just not as big of an impression.

Emily- they were nice tonight. i know its superficial but they wernt dressed as nicely as the rest of the chapters. they were ok, but not really impressionable.

Madison- they overdid it with me tonight. when i got here i realized why every chapter was treating me different than all of the other girls. at my school, it is kinda a good thing to be a legacy, and to get someone else's legac was a major thing. they pressured me hard core. they sat me in a big cushioned chair with about 7 girls around me. the rest of the girls were around a large table in folding chairs with slip covers. they kept asking me questions about my mom and why i wanted to go through recruitment and not just join her chapter. then they served refreshments and they all sat and watched me eat and drink and none of them had anything. then the president came over to me and without being too obvious about it basically told me that the wanted me. i left really wierded out. i told ashley about it later and she told me that they did the same thing to her... i later found out that she too was a legacy.

Isabella- they were really relaxed. they had an alum speaker. it was nice. i didnt get to see the girl that i had been talking to for the past three days. the president came and talked to me here too. i just got a feeling from them...

the next day i was to get my pref invites. if i got 4 i had to pick three. if i got 3,2 or 1 i had to go to all of them
i really wanted isabella, i knew i was a shoe in to madison, emma and emily were both ok. i wouldnt be dissapointed anywhere :o

I agree completely with the selectivity aspect of formal recruitment but fortunately for my daughter (at her school) being a sophomore is not a strike against you as it might be at schools with more Greek involvment. Only 28% of the students belong to sororities or fraternities and upperclassman are encouraged to give Greek life a try.

Wow, Madison sounds a little scary...ok, more than a little.

ok so i made a mistake... madison wasnt as creepy as i made them sound. they were just realy pressuring me. i thought the girls were nice i think that they just recruited too hard. i liked them and actually might put them on my bid card.

so i went to the student union with mari and another girl whom i had met throughout the week to get our pref invites. mari got 3 invites (emily emma and isabella). the other girl really wanted madison or isabella and just got emily and emma. Needless to say i really wanted isabella. actually i only wanted isabella. i just couldnt see myself anywhere else. so i got my invites and it turned out that i got all 4. yay(sarcastic). i told the rho chi's that i only wanted to go to isabella. they told me that although that was an option, they REALLY REALLY wanted me to go to 3 parties. so i closed my eyes and picked emma. it was totally at random.

so pref night i was to go to:
first Maidson
then Emily
followed by Isabella

none of the sororities on my campus have houses so they were all at random locations throughout town

I got to Madison's place, it was held in an old fraternity house. they had white sheets thrown over all of the couches. they had one of their seiors "preffing" me. another one had written me a little note because she had wanted to pref me but the older girl got me instead. their ceremony was nice. alot of girls cried, both pnm's and actives. i felt more connected to them than creeped out by them this night. i was really starting to like them.

then i went to emily. theirs was at an unofficial house. it was really pretty, painted in their colors. their ceremony was nice. it was basically the same impression i had gotten from them all week, they were nice, their house was nice, it was all just nice.

Isabella was last. i couldnt wait. they had theirs at an really nice hotel (although it was in the breakfast room) their ceremony made me cry. the girl that i had been talking to all week "preffed" me, she teared up too.

i had a decision to make. do i put madison and isabella or just isabella???

I had never heard of the term "hotboxing" until GC. It was never a rule at my campus that X number of sisters may not talk to a PNM at the same time, but just common sense that if you have more than 3 sisters talking to a PNM at a time, it will make her uncomfortable. I find it hard to believe that a chapter would think that having 8 sisters talking to a PNM at once would be to their advantage.

When I watched the YouTube video from Northwestern, the Rho Gamma defined hotboxing as two or more sisters talking to a PNM at once. How can you transition if you can't have two sisters talking to a PNM at once? Does an active just say to the PNM, "See that redhead across the room? Go talk to her, we can't hotbox you and bring her over here"?

As I understood it, 2:1 was okay, just no more than 2 sisters to 1 PNM. And generally, the 2nd sister would come into the conversation, there would be some sort of transition, and the first one would leave. It was never 2:1 for longer than a minute.

Agreed on the ratio. I've known what hotboxing was since I was a freshman because I guess it was something my Rho Chi told us about and our Rush/Recruitment Chair always drilled into our heads every year of school. I guess when you get fined for it once, you never want to get fined for it again. On my campus, the facility director counts as a member of your chapter.

And VandyDG, it does sound like Madison was hotboxing to me.

i had never even heard of hotboxing before this, i always just thought it was common sense not to freak the pnm's out

LOL. That works too! :D

Exactly what I was saying!

Sooooo? I'm impatiently waiting to hear how this ends! :)

ok, I'm going to skip ahead to bid day.

The night before i had only slept on and off, i called my mom about every two hours throughout the night. i woke up for good at about 630 that morning, with much protest from my roommate (it was a saturday). i showered and took my time getting ready. i wore a sweatshirt like the rho chi's told me to so i could cover up my bid day shirt. i went to the student union at about 815 ish. i was among the first ones there. i was shaking and crying because i might have made a mistake on my bid card. they werent going to be ready for about 15 more minutes so i sat and talked with ashley. her sister was there because she was an alum of one of the sororites. then we were told that we could wait in line to get our bids. i was the first one in to get my bid. i was still shaking. they handed me my bid and i opened it, and ...

Noooooo don't keep us hanging more!!!!!

P.S. I think I may know who you are, PNMfall06

i had recieved a bid from...

the only one that i put on my bid card...

MADISON!!!

also known as GAMMA PHI BETA!!

Yayyy for Gamma Phi!

and I was right! (I knew which school had those sororities...)

jk i got the name wrong it was isabella

i suicide bidded by the way

Haha I was like WOW, Madison??

Congrats!

So, it was Isabella. Still Gamma Phi, right?

What's your 'real' GC name?

I was going to say, I would not have picked Madison!

Way to go!