...just returned from our regional leadership conference and while there I asked some of the collegians what they thought about high school info sessions for passing on sorority information and they all thought it was a great idea -- only one of the collegains I talked to (out of a total of just 8) had known anything about sororities beforehand. The others wished they had known something while in high school.
I then asked the girls what was the best way to get high school senior girls to COME to one of these sessions? To wit -- Our brand-new alum Panhel association did one session last year -- our first -- but it was poorly attended -- okay sure we did not deconflict the date with the high school prom calendar and our session was the day after the prom! (dumb I know)
But thanks to word of mouth we had other girls who were not there download our forms from the website and get them to us by our deadline to get recs etc...the girls who did come and/or who did get their paperwork to us -- we had 9 total -- all got into sororities except one (since this girl seemed to be a HUGE partier and was not much into studying -- this was a blessing methinks
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Anyways, the collegians I asked about this said they thought I had a good idea to advertise our info session in the high school newspapers and they all said the ads should emphasize what is available once you become a member of a sorority -- particularly scholarships...
So I guess we will try that approach this year -- we DID deconflict the date of our session with the area proms --
and we shall see what increase -- if any -- we get in interest and attendance...I do like the idea of creating a booklet as someone posted earlier on this thread though I think that will have to wait til next year...
I think we will keep doing these sessions and we will continue to strive for good local publicity so more young women will see the Panhel name out there and realize it can be a good thing to join a sorority!