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Originally posted by kateshort
Yeah, maybe your greek system at your school attracts a lot of women to recruitment, but that doesn't mean that it works at other kinds of schools in other parts of the country with other greek systems. And I think we'd get a lot of great women if it was better advertised to those who don't just want to be the traditional sorority-girl stereotype, or those whose families went greek in school, or those who are great campus leaders but who were turned off by the stereotypical frat-mat image. I really think we're missing out on some quality people. Sure, at some schools, these are the women that you get through COB, but how nice it would be to have them rush in the first place!
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Just as a little addition to this, Annie is a member of my chapter and although it sounds as if a lot of women come through recruitment at UCR with knowledge about sororities, there really aren't a lot of women that come through recruitment, sadly. For those who are actually interested and informed, it's because they, as PNMs, are willing to get the information on their own (such as Annie did through GC). Formal recruitment at UCR really only consists of about 150-185 PNMs, at least over the past few years. Our Greek system is not really growing because of these numbers- it is thriving on the same numbers (most houses hit total of 70 probably once during a year, but then are down to 40 or 50 once people graduate... and we start over again with the same problem).
Although I somewhat agree with Annie about how it's usually easier and sometimes better for a chapter to take girls who are more informed than others (i.e. they know what they're getting into in the areas of dues, time management, etc), I also think that part of UCR's problem is weak publicity of the Greek system. We aren't really allowed to do much (no more dorm-storming, can't talk to PNMs over the summer anymore, etc.) and our local high schools don't really feed in many students. We're a commuter school, but people from up to an hour away from campus will commute, which leaves little time for social life.
Sad to say, but I just don't think if our particular school advertised to local high schools, it wouldn't get even 2% of the graduating seniors interested in recruitment at ANY school.