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Old 10-14-2011, 06:05 PM
newgreekmommy newgreekmommy is offline
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Ole Miss Recruitment (Guys)

I don't have a son, but my daughter is a freshman at Ole Miss and she has several guy friends who went through recruitment this year.

I pulled these numbers from the Ole Miss student newspaper:

Boys: 1082 registered for formal recruitment (and it is formal!)
74.3% received bids
762 (70.4% received bids from their "first" choice)

The bid numbers were significantly lower than the girls numbers.

I wanted to share this info because I never heard any of my friends worrying about their sons and recruitment. I was worried to death about my daughter's recruitment, but these moms and sons had no concerns.

Well...I have two friends with freshman boys at Ole Miss. They don't know each other. Each of their sons was given a bid (before formal recruitment started) from ABC (the same very large, national frat). Both bids were revoked -- on the last night of recruitment according to the moms. So neither pledged anywhere.

On the flip side, two boys from Georgia had Ole Miss connections and they pledged their top house (with lots of options) with no issues.

I don't know how guys' recruitment works totally, but I do know they have a formal period, go to all houses, rank (like the girls do) etc,

But, I wanted to share this story and point out their to show that the guys at Ole Miss have it tough, too. If they don't go visit during the summer and really network during the first month of school, it's really hard for them to get plugged in. This message really needs to get out.

And, to continue along the same lines, my brother-in-law, a KA from Clemson, was horrified to learn that his recommendation letter to the Bama KA house got there "too late". Even though it was sent long before the posted "formal rush" period, the recruitment chair and president told my brother-in-law that all the KA bids were really already given out.

Move on over to UGA: My friend's son had participated in the summer parties, was certain he was going to get a bid froma certain house -- BUT -- because he didn't register online for recruitment by a certain date, they couldn't give him a bid until he went through formal recruitment. During that time, he was so glad he'd already found his first choice and been getting to know them, because he heard "we only have 5 bids left" and similar lines at several different houses -- directed to other guys. He did get the bid from his top choice and all worked out, but these guys around the south at least need to know that they need to work all summer! (Two friends weren't so lucky; they hadn't been going to visit during the summer and they didn't receive any bids.)


This may be obvious... but I'd never heard of boys having problems. Maybe boys just don't talk about it as much.
Just hoping this will help someone with southern rush!

Last edited by newgreekmommy; 10-14-2011 at 06:07 PM.
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