Rush 2006/2007 Thread
 

Forgot to mention this earlier, but since rush is nearly over hear at Nebraska...

I have been extremely lucky to have my little brother follow in my footsteps and join Beta at Nebraska. He signed his bid card about a month ago, and I didn't think to share the good the news. His pledge class is actually going to have SIX little brothers in it. Last count had 24 guys in his class, I believe, with a couple of remaining guys who may also sign.

He doesn't know it yet, but I even bought him a pink and blue tie that I plan on giving him when he moves into the chapter house August 17th.

Post rush results from this school year in this thread as they come in...

You're already doing Rush?! WOW... our university doesn't do any official Rush activities until September. We haven't even finished our planning phase yet, much less executing anything.

By six "little brothers", I assume you mean legacies... congrats and extending your families involvement with Beta. As the last child in my family to attend college (my little brother never finished high school), I won't be able to share that honor. My only hope is that my future children choose to join our wonderful organization.

Yes, we do all of our rush during the summer. I did a thread several years back about it. The guys who signed that summer are now heading into their senior years (...I've been on GC a looong time).

Here's the thread: http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showth...ht=Summer+Rush

There's a post on either the second or third page that explains about the process very clearly.

We are in the process of rush right now also down here at FAU in south florida. it is looking to be a good turn out and we have seen a lot of new guys that we thought were not going to join untill they saw what Beta Theta Pi had to offer. We have already seen a great number of people getting ready to come out and the number of people rushing is only getting bigger.

-Since we are talking about little brothers, my oldest brother was prez. of SigEp in new york before me moved down and they tried so had to get me to join but, during rush in spring 06 i looked at them right in the eye and asked where the beta theta pi table was and that was that-:cool:

And the rest is history....:)

My chapter has it's offical 'Rush' week next week. They all seem pretty optimistic about it.

It would be nice if they could pull 20+.

my chapter just started our two week fall recruitment. Ill keep you guys posted, we are doing something actually rather progressive this time, so it has potential to be really good, or really bad... we will see

ECU's formal recruitment is Sept 18-22 I think... why so late? I have no idea. The EA's definitely need to pick up some good numbers this year.

Good luck to everyone on your recruiting!

We gave out 4 bids, but we are a spring rush school, so this is to be expected. Well, low is to be expected, but we are in deep trouble in the recruitment department. If we dont get 15 in the spring, then we do not get our charter, and that is the only thing stopping us. We are in total troubled waters

So what's your number at now, and how much is the campus average? I might be mistaken, but I was under the impression that chartering requirements were supposed to be sustained over the course of a semester.

We have 16, most have 30-45, (12 being SENIORS)... so depending on how many of these guys accept tonight we need 12-16, in the winter, and we were told at convention, that that will do it for us!... personally, not to be a downer, but i don't think itll happen, no one usually recruits more then 10 in the spring, and we dont have a good rep on campus.

I think recruitment has become a MAJOR issue for newly formed colonies and/or newly chartered chapters.

We're very excited for Rush to be here, but foreseeing the loss of 6-8 brothers by the end of the academic year means we have to at least replace those men... and it's be awesome if we could recruit more than that. Time will tell...

What are your recruitment methods?

It sounds like you already expect to have a bad rush and just generally pessimistic. I was rush chair for awhile and I had a great time doing it. I learned a lot and I wish I could have done it longer because I have some new things I would like to try out. I saw rush as a competition, and the three semesters I ran it we had the largest pledge classes with the best guys. I focused more on quality than quantity-but that led me into bringing up all the quality guys who in turn did half our recruitment for us.

I think that is really true. I think one of the most appealing things about a fraternity is tradition and I think it is hard to grasp that from a chapter you heard was just starting. Also, I find that a new chapter sort of scares old chapters, so the fangs come out in the rumor mill and etc. Third, the chapter is still finding there place, not just with recruitment but with the brotherhood aspect, which can sometimes be really relevant to the possible recruit.

It is hard, and I just hope we can overcome it. Coramoor is right with staying postitive, if you defeat yourself before the game starts, well you never have a chance to see how the game plays out, its just hard though because this is our 4th recruitment period, and it just doesnt seem to be working right, and every recruitment we do our best to improve, and make it more successful.

Right now only time will tell

A big problem we ran into when we were first starting to come back was that other chapters/their alumni/the school still had the old image of my chapter in their mind.

Even though it's a different chapter/brotherhood other fraternities have a long memory and will hold things against you from way before your time.