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Biggest recruitment is Fall. We have recruitment fall and spring though. Spring we take much less girls though and quota is much less too. We take so many in fall cause of all the newe freshman and new people coming to college and cause we usualyl lose about 15-20 girls in spring cause of graduation.
It is about a month after school has started. School starts end of Aug we usually have recruitment end of Sept. We make a recruitment book each summer. Its a small book with all the sororities in it and info about each one. We send them to incoming freshman on a list student affairs provides us. During the year we have oritentation days where incoming freshman come to see the campus and sign up for classes, we have a greek booth set up so they can come over and ask questions and learn more and their parents can as well. We also have a booth when they bring the high school kids who come to view the campus, we have a room where booths are set up and we have a greek booth there, others are there too like sports, bookstore, ect.... We have sorority and fraternity peopel sign up in greek affairs and take books about sorority and fraternity life to their old high schools so they are avaliable in the guidance office for the juniors and seniors to have. We put recruitment times in the campus newpaper, we set up booths that diff frats and sororities man on campus in the student union when school starts for 2 weeks and this allows people to come over and ask questions and sign up for recruitment. We have fliers on campus advertising upcoming recruitment, the radio station goes over how you can get involved for those first 3-4 weeks of classes they talk about recruitment on air. Then we hold a day on campus about a week before it all starts and we all set up Greek Booths like one sorority has cotton candy, one popcorn, dunking tanks, other food and drinks tables, boxing ring, rock wall, all sorts of fun things and we all talk with people who come over and give them the greek book for them to look as, also Rho Gams are there to talk to potentials and sign up tables for recruitment. We are able to get in with resident life and housing and help with the freshman move in. We help them move in to the dorm and we are allowed to wear our letters and tell them about upcoiming events we hold. During that weekend freshman move in weekend we are allowed to come to their planned events like there is always a beach party and one of the dorms and all greeks go to talk about recruitment, also to other events, then we host a event on campus that weekend in the student union where they can come talk to sororities and frats and hang out its a mixer and we give them info and they can sign up there as well. To be honest the first 3 weeks of fall we are busy like no other with recruiting people. Its just we get people who sign up from the beginning and forget or lose interest or something. Its like we have so many events in those 3-4 weeks but still not as many potentials come through recruitment.
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