2015 Indiana Recruitment
 

I wanted to post the tentative recruitment schedule, as it is different from other years. IU will be conducting recruitment in its entirety after break, a true deferred recruitment. As many of you know, Indiana used to have the open house rounds during the first semester and then the rest of recruitment was after break.

PHA Formal Recruitment Schedule, January 2015

22-Party/ Skits
Thursday Jan. 8: Skit Round Day 1
8:00- 8:40
9:00- 9:40
10:00-10:40 Drink Round
11:00-11:40
12:00-12:40
1:00-1:40 Drink Round
BREAK: 1:40-3:00
3:00-3:40
4:00-4:40
5:00-5:40 Drink Round
6:00-6:40
7:00-7:40

Friday Jan. 9: Skit Round Day 2
8:00- 8:40
9:00- 9:40
10:00-10:40 Drink Round
11:00-11:40
12:00-12:40
1:00-1:40 Drink Round
BREAK: 1:40-3:00
3:00-3:40
4:00-4:40
5:00-5:40 Drink Round
6:00-6:40
7:00-7:40

16 Party
Saturday Jan. 10: Philanthropy and Service Round Day 1
9:30- 10:15
10:35- 11:20
11:40-12:25 Drink Round
12:45-1:30
BREAK 1:30-3:30
3:30- 4:15
4:35- 5:20 Drink Round
5:40- 6:25
6:45- 7:30

Sunday Jan. 11: Philanthropy and Service Round Day 2
9:30- 10:15
10:35- 11:20
11:40-12:25 Drink Round
12:45-1:30
BREAK 1:30-3:30
3:30- 4:15
4:35- 5:20 Drink Round
5:40- 6:25
6:45- 7:30

Second Invite/ 9-Party
Saturday, Jan. 17
8:00-9:00 Drink Round
9:20-10:20 Drink Round
10:40-11:40 Drink Round
12:00-1:00 Drink Round
1:20-2:20 Drink Round
BREAK 2:20-4:00
4:00-5:00 Drink Round
5:20-6:20 Drink Round
6:40-7:40 Drink Round
8:00-9:00 Drink Round

Preference Round/ 3-Party (Drinks/Dessert Every Round)
Sunday Jan. 18
12:00-1:15
1:35-2:50
3:10-4:25
4:45-6:00 (optional 4th round)

Bid Night
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015

40 minutes for first round of recruitment? Is that common? I always thought those were more like 20 minute rounds... especially if you have 22 of them!!

When do classes start in relation to this? Mon the 12th? This leaves me exhausted just reading it.

I assume classes start on the 12th?

Yes, classes begin Monday, Jan. 12. There is a day off for MLK between preference and bid day, as well. I am curious to see how dragging out recruitment this long will affect (tire out) the women in the chapters. So glad I am not having to recruit now!

Interested to see if 40 minute skit round means fewer PMN complaints along the lines of, "They didn't have the time to get to know me--no wonder I only received five second round invites!"

I'm exhausted just reading that schedule. Grueling for the actives and the pnms.

I wouldn't think so, you're still going to allocate probably 3-5 minutes of that round to getting PNMs in and seated (40-5 = 35), 8-12 minutes for the skit (35-10 = 25), and then 3-5 minutes getting them back out...so you're still at roughly 20 minutes of actual conversational time. That even excludes picking up your PNM and getting them to their respective rush location, which is probably another few minutes!

I have a question about statistics from previous years, on 2013 it says that 146 women were not matched in the process, does that mean that those were the women that didn't get to go to Party 3? I was trying to figure out my chances, If I maximize all my options.I figured that the placement rate for that year is actually around 87% if you take out grade drops and girls that withdrew themselves( even if they had "bad" options they still had options I'm guessing)

No, "not matched" means that at bid matching time (after pref and the cards have been signed), they did not match and didn't get a bid. It refers to the end of recruitment, not any lack of invitations during the process. Ones who had no invitations at any point in recruitment are considered to have been "released" from recruitment.

1,735 women registered
1,025 received bids
146 women not matched in process
182 women released for grades
135 participated in preference round and did not receive bids
376 withdrew themselves from recruitment
Nearly 64% of women registered joined chapters
here are the numbers which is why I was confused, so if 136 women participated in Preference and didn't get bids where does the 146 come into play? I was trying to figure out how many girls actually just get Dropped by every chapter as these horror stories online say.

I'm also confused...it seems the two bolded descriptions are the same. I'm wondering what the "146 not matched in process" means, if it doesn't mean that they didn't bid match after pref. Does anyone know if this is really "released along the way?"

OK - so they are changing up the terminology since they actually have grade releases and most other places don't include women who sign up but aren't allowed to participate due to grades. So that would be their term for "released" during recruiitment.

ok, I think I am a bit confused also, and it may be entirely based on being tired, but I was looking at these numbers provided and something seems wrong. If 1,735 women registered, I went back and added up the following numbers:
1,025-women who received bids
146- women not matched in the process
182- women who were released for grades
135- women who participated in preference but did not receive bids
376- women who withdrew themselves from recruitment.

When I added these numbers up I got 1,864, I feel like those numbers should add to 1,735. When I added, I had 129 more then what was originally registered. Like I said, I may be completely missing something, but I still think that the stats provided should add up to the number of women registered. What am I doing wrong?

Could 135- women who participated in preference but did not receive bids
mean SIP (Single Intentionally Preference) or not listing all groups on their card (i.e. going to 3 parties and only putting 2 groups on their card).
Wouldn't that be different than listing all the groups on your card and not be high enough on any bid list to match (as in the 146 women not matched in the process)?