[astroAPhi]

Just out of curiousity, how many members do you have? And how many do the other sororities have? Is Greek Life as a whole "losing its novelty", or is it just Phi Gamma Pi? That might help us be able to answer your question.

My sorority got one girl through formal recruitment last year, and quota was 3. We were at 75% of total. We had 16 juniors out of 30 girls. We thought we were totally screwed.

What did we do? We learned to COB. Freshmen especially are a wonderful resource for this. They can just drag their roommate out to dinner with us or half their floor (as the one girl we got through formal recruitment did). Spring semester, I got my roommate, my former roommate, and a friend from my pre-college years to join. At the end of the year, we were one under total, and we have 3 girls that we wanted to give bids to, but they wanted to wait until next semester. We had girls where it took an entire semester to rush them, but we didn't give up.

I won't kid you, you have to be gung-ho, and you have to be determined. We invited PNMs to every single event that wasn't sisters only. I can proudly say that we are definitely better rushers than we were before, and a stronger sisterhood because we made sure we found quality girls. Only 2 seniors graduated, so we are looking forward to possibly going above total for the first time ever. We'll need to too, with 20 people graduating in the next year and a half.

It took a long time. We had some ups and downs. We initiated 20 women the year I was initiated, and only 8 the next year. We had lots of girls transfer schools. The most important thing though is that you have to retain your image as a strong sisterhood. No one will want to join if they don't see that.

I'll be waiting for your other updates to see if I can help anymore. I hope this did.