University of Pittsburgh Informal Recruitment

[fire1977]

Because of the few alum and actives that are on this board from Pitt...

Good luck to all of your chapters during recruitment! Sorority informal recruitment starts tomorrow night.

[kddani]

Good luck to everyone!

I've seen a ton of flyers, mainly DPhiE and XO. We were never much into the flyer thing (god how i used to hate putting them up at 7:30 in the morning only to have them torn down by the cleaning people by 9am....).

Can't wait to hear about it!

I don't miss standing outside on bidnight with this cold weather.... they really should just reserve the biggest room in the Union for the sororities... have the PNMs pick up their bids in the lower lounge and then walk over to the room. Just be better than everyone freezing outside.

But wait, with spring rush, don't they pick up their bids early in the day and choose which one they accept (since they can get more than one bid) so it's not even a suprise come bid night?

How are they doing it this year?

[fire1977]

I'm not big on fliers, but it was something they wanted to do and from what I've heard they've been doing a pretty good job of it! They've also had an ad in the pitt news everyday this week or at least the last two.

I think they are having bid night the same as usual. They did it in the union my freshman year, it was VERY boring! They brought everyone's NM classes in so you saw where everyone went.

I'm super excited! I'll give you the updates when I get a chance!

[KillarneyRose]

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THE PITT SORORITIES AND RUSHEES!

[honeychile]

Yes, PLEASE keep us posted!!

My understanding is that most (but one) of the houses are near total - is that true? I really appreciate being in the loop!

Good luck to everyone!

[fire1977]

HOneychile - I'll pm you!

[shadokat]

fire,

Best of luck to the Deephers at Pitt I know you've got them primed and ready to go!!

[fire1977]

Okay. I heard that approx. 91 women signed up for recruitment. about 70 some came through yesterday, which for informal is AWESOME! I'm assuming that those other 20 some women didn't come because it was pretty snowy out yesterday.

I'm not posting anything specific but DPhiE did very well. Unfortunately I don't have any information on anyone else, but if I find out anything, I'll pm you!

[kddani]

I haven't talked to my roommate because she didn't get home until very late, but judging from the away messages i've read KD did very well too.

One thing that I HATE about spring rush and I think is one of the dumbest things ever is that there is no bid matching. We have 6 spots, so we can only offer bids to 6 girls that we pref. Playing the numbers game, it's very unlikely that we'd get all 6 to accept. A girl can get as many bids as possible and can only pick one. But that's how many girls who might not get a bid at all? How many broken hearts does that lead to? Yeah, we'll snap bid/COB in no time, but still, it makes them feel sort of "second class". I really really really hate this about spring rush.

I'd be very interested in knowing how the weather affected the houses not in Amos. Personally, I hated walking to Bayard when I rushed in the fall and it was decent out. There's no way i'd do it in the snow

[fire1977]

I understand where you are coming from Danielle.

I had a chat with our women yesterday about being fair and not inviting women to preference who had very slim chances of getting a bid so that they may go somewhere else, even if it is not a rule this semester.

Funny I said the same thing last night about walking - but I don't think they had parties last night. There are about 5 groups that have parties tonight - we are off. I think Sat & Sun each group (there is a group A and B) has parties but at different times.

[Rudey]

Wwwooooo!!! Yeaaaah! Go Penn go!!!

-Rudey
--Are we talking about Penn?

[kddani]

I really wish more groups would have that chat. But you KNOW that some houses won't. Our girls just had a national officer doing her visit about 2 weeks ago, so I really hope she told them the same thing.

How are they regulating how many women a house can pref?

How was the "circulation" last night? I know that some houses make it so friggin uncomfortable to leave.

I really hope this is a successful rush for all of the houses! I'm so glad to see almost all of the houses (with only 1 exception) really making a push to picking up their numbers and everyone getting more even.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by kddani


How are they regulating how many women a house can pref?

THE big reason why there should be bid matching/more Panhellenic involvement in Spring Rush!

Originally posted by kddani
How was the "circulation" last night? I know that some houses make it so friggin uncomfortable to leave.

Don't I know it? It's just wrong to make PNMs feel so uncomfortable about circulating when that's exactly what they should be doing!

Originally posted by kddani
I really hope this is a successful rush for all of the houses! I'm so glad to see almost all of the houses (with only 1 exception) really making a push to picking up their numbers and everyone getting more even.

Yes, good luck to all - ceiling all around!!

[fire1977]

Quite technically they can't, bid matching can only occur during formal recruitment. If we did it then groups could argue that they should get to take quota.

As far as I am aware it's really up to the women. There is no rule about how many you can invite to pref. and there really can't be. Panhel shouldn't even have set party times for informal, but I think it works for Pitt so....

Of course there will be heartbroken women, but they need to play this game smartly and know their options. They are the winners here because they get their choice of their bids. And while I don't necessarily endorse it - women can get bids from houses that they didn't pref.

ETA: We flick the lights and make an announcement every half hour that they can leave for other parties if they choose.

[SigEp42]

Just wanted to let you all know I have a friend who is rushing at Pitt durring informal.