UNC Chapel Hill Recruitment
 

Round one of UNC's recruitment is going on now! (Literally!) I'm excited to hear from my contacts there how things are going! Hopefully everyone will find the perfect home where they can belong! I've heard there is a record number of PNM's this year...

From what I have gathered, tonight is part two of round one which I think is an interesting shift to two nights of open houses. I am also a UNC alum so I am excited to see any recruitment stories!

Please keep us posted.

I've had a few short texts from my daughter over the last few days (recruitment started August 29) and from what I can gather, there are a record number of PNM's at UNC this year. Isn't that always the case? She is a Sophomore and this is her first glimpse of "the other side". (She pledged last year.) She is my tender-hearted child, so the member selection meetings that go late into the night just go against her nature, but she knows it's necessary evil. Pref night is going on NOW, and she has a couple of rush crushes that she is hoping to welcome tomorrow as new sisters!

I hope she gets her girls!

Back in my day... all nine years ago as a PNM, open house was split over two nights.

Recruitment ended last night with Bid Day. From what I've heard, a HUGE amount of girls dropped out before the process was over. It seems that they had their hearts set on a few "upper tier" sororities and didn't feel like any of the other amazing houses were worth exploring. Where does this mentality come from? Are we teaching our daughters that they are better than other girls? There has been a lot of talk about not "settling" for a mid or lower tier sorority. Who decides tiers anyway? Can you tell I'm frustrated? I'd love to know statistics of how many girls started Recruitment and how many accepted a bid.

How sad for the chapters and the PNMs. What was quota?

I have only heard from a few groups averaging around 50 but this was the article from the DTH. I also heard a lot dropped during the process. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/...9/bid_day-0904
There is a video of bid day here: http://www.dailytarheel.com/multimedia/18878

The past couple of years Recruitment started on Friday night with round one and visiting all the houses so it was a change for me.

Kappa welcomed 54 NMs.

MSKKG, do you know what quota was?

No, I got that number off either Kappa's Facebook or Twitter. In a post a few posts above, pbxtilldeath said that some groups averaged around 50, so Kappa's 54 would be right in line.

One of my sons is in grad school there, but I can guarantee you he wouldn't know anything. In fact, when both of my boys were in HS, I would have to ask my friends with daughters who was Homecoming Queen, etc.!

This whole "nothing but the best mentality" is in line with the sense of entitlement SOME kids are growing up with today. Who creates this attitude? The parents in many instances. Their children are an extension of themselves, so they make sure the kids are over programmed in the best activities, go to the right schools, have the right clothes, etc. What happened to teaching kindness and giving back for the sake of doing the right thing, not because it will look good on a resume?

How can intelligent young women not see that the different Greek organizations are more alike than different? Aren't students at UNC supposed to be best of the best? Doesn't sound like there are any leaders in the group. A smart group should be able to figure out that each year the house changes by 25%. A strong group of girls would recruit girls like them and in three years, the chapter would be almost totally different. :rolleyes:

My daughter has friends in various sororities throughout the country and I'd like to share some of their recruitment thinking which boggles the mind:

1. Almost all have visited THAT website and read what THAT website says about tiers, rankings, who is good, who is awful, etc. per THAT website. Even when told to disregard THAT website by this forum or others that website is already in their heads and the damage may already be done. I talked to a PNM who knew nothing about Greek life and she talked about that website. Once she found out about it from another PNM she visited it religiously. She read every single post about fraternities, sororities, etc. and that was her Greek bible. She even had her mom hooked on it and as she went through recruitment she referred back to THAT website. I told her and her mother there was a lot of vile garbage there and she should keep an open mind. Her daughter told my daughter that it was a bunch of old women telling them to ignore THAT website. I unfortunately think a lot of these young adults share that same sentiment about THAT site (it's the Bible) and those who tell them it ignore it (clueless, out of touch).

2. Tent talk is huge. Even when told to close your ears and not listen to tent talk the tent talk is rampant and girls hear things. Not as vile as #1 above but a similar vein.

According to my friends and their daughters half seemed to have made their minds up before they even went to school based on social media. The other half seemed to be heavily swayed by tent talk. One girl said "nobody wants to be in THAT house, they're all awkward (seems to be the current negative word)". If they can't have what they want then they'd rather do without all together. Maybe it's a princess generation but open-mindedness doesn't seem to be a strong trait for some.