Fall Rush '07 Numbers.

[banditone]

Fall Rush should be coming to an end for most chapters. When you hear of a chapters Pledge Class totals, post them here! Thanks.

[TrevorG]

Are you all already back in school? Classes don't start for me until the 22nd, and we don't have rush until October.

[Kevin]

Yeah, I don't think our guys have rush for awhile.

[ARSigmaNu]

Yeah, our's isn't til October either. 50 or so is my guess. Depends on the quality of the guys.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

I think a lot of Southern schools rush in the summer actually....they're just that damn cool

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

I think a lot of Southern schools rush in the summer actually....they're just that damn cool

I don't see why everyone doesn't do it. Imagine if y'all headed into formal rush essentially knowing who was going to get a bid card and who would sign?

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I don't see why everyone doesn't do it. Imagine if y'all headed into formal rush essentially knowing who was going to get a bid card and who would sign?

a lot of us are at commuter campuses or at campuses where being greek isn't "cool" so we have to hunt people down during rush....

or schools where IFC is extremely picky about when you can start bidding

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

a lot of us are at commuter campuses or at campuses where being greek isn't "cool" so we have to hunt people down during rush....

or schools where IFC is extremely picky about when you can start bidding

1) I went to a commuter college as well.. at least it was one. It's sort of transitioning to a more traditional school as it grows. That doesn't mean that we didn't go after kids from high school who we knew would be good prospects during the summer.

2) IFC rules can and should be changed when they hurt the entire greek system. You can have summer events which aren't recruitment events per se. Just have them be socials.. do camping trips, river trips, stuff like that. Invite whoever -- prospects, girls, etc. Talk up the entire fraternal system while you have those guys there. You should be able to at least get away with that until you can lobby IFC for some reform which will benefit everyone.

[banditone]

Wow. We'd have open rush all summer (informal). And when school started we'd already, pretty much have our pledge class. Then when we got back in school we'd have formal rush, which EVERYONE hated.

It usually went
Summer Rush 98% of the pledge class.
Formal Rush 2% of the pledge class.

[ARSigmaNu]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

or schools where IFC is extremely picky about when you can start bidding

That's us. We rush guys hard all summer, but can't do anything "official" for a couple more months. It's no big really, it gives the guys a chance to visit all the houses and meet the guys in their native environment, go to a few parties, and start to form their own opinion.

[TrevorG]

How the hell does this summer rush work. 98% of our fraternity goes home for summer, many way to far away to come do anything. Only a few freshmen will be from the local area.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by TrevorG

How the hell does this summer rush work. 98% of our fraternity goes home for summer, many way to far away to come do anything. Only a few freshmen will be from the local area.

Some chapters around here actually rent Summer apartments in OKC and Tulsa where brothers will live and recruit out of. They're like little rush war rooms.

At any rate, you could probably do something like that -- have your strong recruitment people room with each other over summer and just work on putting together a good pledge class.

Also, we make sure everyone is in touch with guys from their high schools who would fit with us, etc. It's not all that tough. I'm probably not the best person to comment on what my chapter is doing these days, but in the past, summer was a 365-day-a-year proposition.. and it should be.

[SNUIGC]

We've been trying to recruit some all summer....basically talking it up to everyone we know, parents, wearing our letters, etc... however, kinda tough when nobody knows you really (since we're just getting back)

As to our rush... we actually extended bids in the last of the spring semester for fall... extended a couple over the summer... meaning we have 7 candidates for the Fall...however, we're hoping for at least 13 more so we can double our current numbers.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by SNUIGC

We've been trying to recruit some all summer....basically talking it up to everyone we know, parents, wearing our letters, etc... however, kinda tough when nobody knows you really (since we're just getting back)

As to our rush... we actually extended bids in the last of the spring semester for fall... extended a couple over the summer... meaning we have 7 candidates for the Fall...however, we're hoping for at least 13 more so we can double our current numbers.

Very nice! Now, do be careful that your chapter is ready to work as hard to retain these guys as you did to get them in the first place. You only double your chapter size if these guys are initiated. If they drop or get cut, all of this energy you've spent on rush is wasted.

-- I'm not saying you're going to have a problem, retention was just something that plagued us when I was active.

[banditone]

University of Georgia (Mu) got 20 candidates for fall, per their website.