We have some sort of preview picnic where only a certain number of girls from each sorority can attend; our recruitment counselors are disaffiliated (recruitment is the weekend right before classes start--it ends out orientation week so it's not TOO bad for them). Recruitment begins on a Friday night, we have a pretty casual "Philanthropy" night were we all wear khaki shorts, a XO shirt and brown sandals, then sit around doing our philanthropy project for Make-A-Wish foundation while talking usually 'get to know you' type conversations; this party is 50 minutes long. Second night is red dress night, slightly more dressy for the PNMs, we give house tours then chat to get to know them better; it is 50 minutes as well. Pref is Sunday and that is our only invite-only party. We wear more formal black dresses and sit around talking more about XO and how the decision making is going for the girl; then we have a ceremony and the PNMs leave--this is the longest party, at 60 minutes. Then we have strict silence until Monday evening when the girls find out who they got bids from and are led by their respective sororities' recruitment counselors to their new houses, and they've all got on our shirts so we get really excited when we see them coming
That's our recruitment weekend in a nutshell--quota this past year was 17, which is larger than normal. We've only got 3 NPC sororities, total is at 65... so we don't have too large a number of girls going through recruitment on average, which is why 3 days works out just right for us
~april