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Old 12-13-2012, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi View Post
The best and most correct information would be gotten by contacting the greek life office at UIUC.

Illinois Panhellenic web page on informal recruitment

http://www.illinoisphc.com/#_p.Recru...%20Recruitment
This is a great place to start, but I would also put emphasis on contacting the Greek Life office directly. The website is not always up to date.

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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby View Post
However, some chapters won't advertise at all, so I recommend two things:

1) If you have friends who are in sororities, NOW is the time to let them know you might be interested. Try not to be creepy about it, but you can let them know you are considering Greek Life.

2) E-mail the Panhellenic VP listed on the website and tell her you are interested as well, and ask if she can forward your name along to the chapters that may be recruiting in the spring.

Basically, you want the chapters who aren't advertising to think "oh, we should invite this person over and see if she'd be a good fit".
This is great advice! It was only until I was a member that I discovered that informal recruitment was actually a bit more common than I had originally thought. (Not saying all chapters participate; that is certainly not the case).

During my time on campus, there were only 2-3 chapters every spring that posted open events for informal recruitment. However, I came to learn that several other sororities would participate if they happened to have a few spots open.

I highly recommend following DBB's advice.

Tagent: It's incredibly hard for me to type DBB because I always want to type DDB, which is the name of a big ad agency #mediaproblems.
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