Recruitment Fees

[DeltaBetaBaby]

If you go through recruitment and get no invites, should you get your registration money back?

Ours was only $20, but I have heard of much higher amounts here on GC.

[ZTAngel]

No. The money is used for the Recruitment t-shirts that you get from your Rho Gammas. It is also used to fund anything the Rho Gammas may give you like water. The money also helps fund the Rho Gammas. In a sense, if you go through recruitment, the money comes back to you one way or another.

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by ZTAngel
No. The money is used for the Recruitment t-shirts that you get from your Rho Gammas. It is also used to fund anything the Rho Gammas may give you like water. The money also helps fund the Rho Gammas. In a sense, if you go through recruitment, the money comes back to you one way or another.

Not every school gives out recruitment t-shirts.

I know there are some schools out there that charge $100+ in recruitment fees. Even WITH a tee shirt or a meal, if you don't get a bid a lot of that is wasted. At our school, the fee was thirty dollars and all we got for that was a soda and a notepad.

I think the money should be given back IF a girl goes to as many parties as she can and still doesn't get a bid, or decides after pref night not to accept one. (A great incentive for staying in rush all the way through. . . ) If she drops out, then no.

[bethany1982]

I can see giving the $$$ back if she does not get a single bid. But not if she gets a bid and does not accept it.

[tri-d]

I can understand it in theory, but I would have to say no as well. Only b/c yes, that money is actually going toward funding recruitment. I know that when I rushed years back, the registration was a couple hundred $$ and I was a bit hesitant at first--I know that in recent years, it has become much more affordable to encourage numbers. In my day, if the fee had been <$50, I would have rushed no question just for the experience even if I had no intentions of pledging.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

No. You're paying to participate, not to join a sorority.

[goldendelta]

Wow. I knew there were fees, but over a hundred dollars! My school dosen't charge any fees. Every PNM would go through COB if they had to pay for formal.

[cash78mere]

i can't imagine spending a few hundred just to SIGN UP for rush! how much are the dues at that school?

[33girl]

If I paid $100+ to go through rush, I'd better get Matthew McConaghey escorting me to all the rush parties.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

I paid $35 to rush at NC State.

Of course I didn't actually go, but that's what I paid.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by 33girl
If I paid $100+ to go through rush, I'd better get Matthew McConaghey escorting me to all the rush parties.

Oooh! I like this idea.

[tri-d]

Okay, I should clarify, that when I was going thru, rush was 7 parties and was held a week and a half before school started--rush itself was a week long and so most of the money went to room and board--we didn't even get to move into dorms until AFTER bids were handed out.
But I definitely wouldn't complain about having Matthew McConahottie involved!

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Me too!

Not sure I'd want to go to the parties though........

[mullet81]

at my school, the recruitment registration fee was $90. they did give out a recruitment t-shirt to all participating, and let me tell you, it was super cool

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Ok...at my school to go through rush you have to pay a registration fee of $150. For that you get two tshirts and a book with pictures of all the houses and info about them.