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sororities get a copy of the recruitment enrollment form for every pnm-many panhellenics require 1 photo(usually only a head shot) per form(12 sororities on campus =13 forms and photos-1 for panhellenic and the others for the sororities. then there are the recommendations that alumnae send in-they share informations about the pnm and often include a photo.

pnm's are encouraged to make notes on each sorority they visit after that party, and sorority members are doing the same. things like:name and hometown of girl, major, dorm,what they talked about, maybe even what she was wearing(not to be negative, but something like she had on the red sundress and strappy sandals) and their impressions of the girl. there is usually not enough time between parties to go into great detail, so everyone tries to note things that will help jog their memory later on.

now when xyz member finds out that patty is a nuclear physics major,or a competitive clog dancer or an award winning basket weaver she may manuever patty over to a sister that has the same major, hobby or interest.

at larger recruitments usually everyone will play hostess to a pnm-some may host two pnms at a time during the first set of parties. sometimes sororities will"stack the deck"-put their more experienced members, their better rushers and their most outgoing girls near the front of the line. that way, if the end of the sorority member line does not have a guest for that party, they can "float" from group to group and observe(and learn) how it is done from the sorority side and partipate in the conversation.

some groups have the hostess stay with her guest the entire party, and either the guest and the hostess go from group to group or they stay stationary and members come and go from their position. other groups have several girls sort of tag team-for instance xyz member #1 picks up patty pnm at the door, introduces herself, begins a conversation and walks patty to a seat, or some vacant spot in the room, and visits.after a few minutes , xyz member#2 comes over, is introduced and joins the conversation. xyz member #1 graciously excuses herself from their conversation and joins another group. after a few minutes the pattern is repeated. the goal is to introduce as many members to a pnm as possible and learn as much about her as they can, while sharing as much info. about your sorority as possible in the short amount of time that you have.

sometimes if there is a girl whose mother,grandmother, aunt, sister is a national officer, or the chapter has received numerous recs. on, the chapter might assign a particular girl to her for the first party, but for the other parties they would want other girls to be her hostess-again the goal is for lots of members to meet the pnm and for the pnm to meet lots of sisters. usually for the preferential party you want to pair the pnm with a sister who feels that she has connected well with the pnm.