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Originally Posted by maddie101
1) Please give all the advice you can on conversation. We literally get in there and don't have a word to say to these girls. Also, motivation ties in with this. We're not marketing people- how do we sell it?
2) How to overcome and get rushees oversee our campus stereotype. We want to be big, varied, and awesome, and we need girls to believe in us enough, even if we're down down, to make us become that.
THANK YOU!
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OK, so some of what I say is probably going to repeat what 33girl has already said. She speaks the truth, and she knows that of which she speaks.
On #1: You're selling yourselves short here. By thinking that you have nothing to say to the PNMs, you will never have anything to say to them. Think about the things you have in common - you're all in college, for goodness' sake! I sense that you may feel "superior" to some of the polished girls going through recruitment. Or maybe you feel inadequate to them. You need to get over that! You could easily sell them on the qualities of your chapter and girls. The key is that you want to show them that they COULD join your chapter. Your attitude towards them (you are all looking to party, you are all concerned about which season of Prada is which) is probably coming across to them and turning them off from joining your chapter. So eliminate that attitude and meet these girls as real people!!
On #2: This is much harder than the first one. Girls are going to ask about the stereotype and ask about what kinds of socials and stuff you have if they see that as a potential weakness of your group. First off, you don't want to lie. You want to be honest. If they flat out ask you "Do you have mixers with fraternities" and you don't, don't say you do, and don't just ignore the question and completely change the topic (I have seen people do both). The best you can do is the admittedly lame "Well no, we're working on that and hope to, but in the meantime we have formals and other kinds of socials etc. etc." The other thing you can do is make sure you're expressing what IS uniquely positive about your sorority. For example you don't have mixers, but what do you offer that no other chapter on campus offers? For a girl who's asked you about social or reputational stuff, tell her what your group offers that no one else does.
On another note, I think it's an important to skate a fine line between being yourselves and being unkempt. Just because you're not the Barbie party sorority doesn't mean everyone can't look their absolute best for formal recruitment.
Also agreed with those who've said that a 16 person chapter vs. 75 person chapters is at a tremendous disadvantage in formal recruitment. COB, COB, COB! I know at some schools COB isn't really an option, but try to make it so at your school With 6000 students, you probably have a fair number of awesome unaffiliated women that you could recruit.