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Originally posted by madmax
Fill me in.
The way I see it rush starts early in the semester. Rush lasts a few weeks and at the end of rush there is bid matching. The largest sororities usually make quota and total. The small sororities that are under total or quota that still want more members start to COB. The problem is that most of the girls that want to pledge already did and it is slim pickens when COB starts.
If COB is continuous up until the sorority reaches total then why do the sororities wait until after the standard rush period to start COB?
Couldn't they basically start COB before the standard rush period? That way they could beat the larger houses to the punch. The larger sororities won't be able to rush because they were already at total from the previous semester.
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I think what adpiucf meant, is that part of recruitment is having good PR, which helps make it a more desireable chapter to join when rush comes around. By increasing visibility on campus and such, people will have heard of the chapter, either good things or bad things, and during rush they will remember that. Particularly if there are many upperclassmen rushing: they will already know the reputations of the different groups and probably share them with their fellow rushees.
As for the other things you mentioned about starting COB earlier than formal rush, it looks to me like rush starts pretty early in the school year at azdtaxi's university, perhaps even before classes start? They can't really start rush before that!
With my investigation in finding this out, I checked out your webpage. A webpage can be a great PR tool for PNMs! I especially liked the quotes at the top of each page, they're cute! You should probably submit the page to nationals to be linked off of the national page, though! If you need to know how to do that, PM me!