[nauadpi]

Well I just thought I would add my two cents into this topic. When I was active, my campus was fairly dependent on COR. There were 6 NPC sororities on campus and the two other sororities that did not participate in formal recruitment. The problem was that the campus was not exactly supportive of greek life. So much of the time the numbers were low in terms of women signing up for fall recruitment. So my chapter would end up with some new members through formal recruitment, but were generally in need of finding more.

COR worked great on my campus cause it gave a chance for us to find those women who might thinking badly of greek life because of what they heard from the university or their roommate or their family or their friends. We were able to show them how wonderful greek life really is. I found much of the time we did get to know the pnm better through COR... Especially cause many of the events on our campus were a handful of sisters (10 or so) hanging out with the 2-3 pnms at a time. These types of events really let you get to know the pnms. Then we also would have larger events where the whole chapter was present. Yet they would last for multiple hours and the pnms were just hanging out with our chapter that night. As a result again you got to know them better then the 15-40 minute parties my campus had for formal recruitment.

The only problem I have ever really found on my campus is with COR, is that sometimes women will only go to one sorority's events and not get along with them then avoid greek life from there on all together. As on many campuses our sororities vary greatly in terms of their sisters, so just because they don't fit into one chapter does not mean they won't fit into greek life.