If No Deferred Recruitment, What's A Good Alternative?

[alphagamgirl06]

To answer you questions:

1.) In general, how would you describe Greek life on your campus?
(competitive vs. non-competitve, percentage of students who are Greek, location of the school: north vs. south, etc... be as specific as you'd like)

I would say recruitment at my school is starting to become fairly competitive. Its a small school in the south with about 5000 students. Greek life represents about 10-12% of the student body.

1.) Did your school have deferred recruitment?

No we have formal recruitment in the Fall.

2.) What was total? Or if you didn't reach total (or didn't follow this system at all) what was your average chapter size while at school?

The sororities have about around 70 to 80 members each and the fraternities around 50 to 60 members. PC Chapter total is 70 and every group is at/over total. IFC I have no idea.

3.) What were average new member class sizes for your chapter?

Normally around 30 to 35

4.) On average, how many freshmen dropped out during the new member program? ... or provide more specific numbers if you have them and want to disclose that information.

It really varies year to year the year before last we had 100% retention, last year we lost about 5 members. I would say on average each chapter looses around 2-4 girls before initiation.

5.) If a significant number of them dropped, for the most part, what were the reasons? (In trouble academically, too time consuming, money issues, etc.)

Normally most of girls that do drop out, leave because they didn't get the chapter they wanted or after they found out what was expected from them they decided they didnt want to be greek. A few do leave because of money issues but they are told the cost during recruitment.
6.) Any other info that you think would be helpful.

I am actually a fan of fall formal recruitment if it is done with some sort of structure. Being at a school where most of the students orignally dont plan to go greek I would say we do a good job at really promoting it within the first few weeks of school. PC send the Rho Gams door to door in the freshman dorms to advertise recruitment. We setup registration/info tables in their dorm lobby and the student center. Most of the orientation leaders are greek. So we are kind of in their face a lot they can't help but listen.