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Old 07-05-2013, 06:19 PM
lilabelle lilabelle is offline
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A chapter recruitment story.

Hi, everyone! I am a long-time lurker and have chosen to come out of "hiding" to post my chapters' story. I have recently seen an influx (or what I feel is an influx) of young ladies saying things like "they're the smallest chapter, they'll take anyone" and I want to tell the story from our side, hopefully to make some women understand that this just isn't true (without digging into membership selection, of course!). I hope that by telling our story, PNMs who may encounter a chapter like this will learn to give them a second look and not immediately dismiss it, as well as gain some helpful advice from all of the wonderful and intelligent women (and men!) on GC. This will be an ongoing story, so while there may not be daily (or even weekly, sometimes) updates, I hope it will be entertaining for at least somebody to read - plus it'll be nice to get it all out and potentially receive (outside) feedback from far more experienced individuals.

First, a little background on my chapter. My campus has 5 or less Panhellenic sororities and is located in a small college town somewhere in the US. We have between 100-200 women go through formal every year, with quota generally somewhere between 15 and 30. Approximately 20% of my campus is greek, and the sororities are a very small percentage of this. My organization has been on campus a little over 30 years, and as far as I know, has never actually reached total. We have been close, but never fully achieved it. Currently, we are at approximately half of total, which is significantly less than the other organizations on our campus. I have been a member for two years, and for at least the five years before I joined, we would rarely have half of quota show up on bid day. We have been open recruiting since my campus instituted total, and it is becoming very discouraging to our alums and collegians alike.

This thread will chronicle my chapter's journey through formal recruitment, open recruitment, all the struggles that our chapter faces by being a weak recruiting chapter, etc. Please let me know if this is the wrong place to post this, and if you're highly interested in chapter specifics feel free to PM me.

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