If anyone has any suggestions!!

lazydazya · #1 01-09-2010, 02:40 AM

I was just elected the recruitment chair of my sorority, and although I don't officially step into my position until Spring of next year (2011), I'd really like to get started right now. As you will see, I have my work cut out for me.

Greek Life at my university has a decent presence- about 30% of girls are Greek. There are 8 NPC chapters, and about 350 girls going to recruitment every year. My chapter was founded about five year ago, and ever since then, we have been known as the one of the "bottom two" or one of the "two to avoid during rush." It's not because we're a small chapter- we have 98 members, the same as all other chapters. Over last past two years that I have been a member, our reputation has gone from "socially awkward" to the current "don't know what to think about them." I think this is because we have been getting pretty good pledge classes these past couple of years. In my honest opinion, and I know they are my sisters so I want to say this tastefully, but half girls that we have in our chapter are those that slipped through the cracks of the "better" sororities, and the other half are those that were cut from every other house.

This is my dilemma. Our quota is 100, and this means that if we hit our quota during Formal Recruitment in the spring, we don't need to do Fall COB. I'd really like to make this a goal. But, historically, we've never filled our quota and have always had to do COB. The problem with Fall COB is that, because of our reputation, not a whole lot of upperclass girls put our chapter as their first choice, and therefore would rather wait until Formal Recruitment to go through all the chapters.

I guess my question is, how do we establish ourselves as a sorority so that members actually want us as their first choice? I know that the advantage of Formal Recruitment in the spring is that we have an entire semester to scout out PNMs, but I need a more proactive and concrete plan. I'm asking the opinions of PNMs, active members, and alumni.

Thanks so much.