U of Alabama Fall 2013 Dates

[AnchorAlumna]

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA FORMAL SORORITY RECRUITMENT
Aug. 9 – Aug. 17, 2013

Begins with Spring Preview, Feb. 22.
If you can’t make Spring Preview and want to make your contact info available to the sororities, go here: https://docs.google.com/a/alabamajub...UE9JLUtHcmc6MQ

Formal Recruitment Schedule
Online registration opens May 1.
Instructions here: http://www.uapanhellenic.com/index.p...d=46&Itemid=41
Thursday, August 8 & Friday, August 9: Residence Hall “Early Move-In”
Friday, August 9: Convocation (7:00 p.m. Coleman Coliseum)
Saturday, August 10: Open House (Ice Water Teas) Day 1
Sunday, August 11: Open House (Ice Water Teas) Day 2
Monday, August 12: Philanthropy Day 1
Tuesday, August 13: Philanthropy Day 2
Wednesday, August 14: Skit Day 1
Thursday, August 15: Skit Day 2
Friday, August 16: Preference Day
Saturday, August 17: Bid Day 10:00 a.m. (tentative)

2012 “Greek Chic” recruitment guide here: http://issuu.com/katgillan/docs/greek_chic_2012_final

[DubaiSis]

2 days for each day of rush? That seems odd to me, and both proves my point from an earlier thread, and missed it completely. Why not have 3 days for round one, 2 for round 2 and 1 for rounds 3 and 4? It's the same total number of days but gives more time at the beginning when it's critical AND the most stressful time for everyone.

Does anyone have how long each of these parties is going to last? It's amazing what 10 more minutes could do at each party and giving all sides a little rest would also be huge for attitudes and girls not flouncing off in a huff.

[HQWest]

Statistics have shown that more women drop out during or just after the first round - either because they were not prepared or because they realized they were not going to get their top choice. You want the later rounds to be longer when girls are really weighing their options.

[AnchorAlumna]

DubaiSis, this year's complete schedule has not yet been released, but the 2012 schedule had:
Round 1: 20 minute parties
Round 2: 25 minute parties
Round 3: 40 minute parties
Round 4: 50 minute parties
Click on the Greek Chic link for more info.

Rounds 1, 2, and 3 have two days of recruitment.
Round 4 is just one day.
The reason for multiple days is, as HartofSEC mentioned, being able to accommodate the number of PNMs and sorority members in the houses. You can thank the campus fire chief for decreeing that a few years ago. While there are 4 new houses that will be open for 2013, most of the other sororities are still in their older, smaller houses. See the Alabama Panhellenic Preview Day thread for details on physical expansion of houses.

[AnchorAlumna]

Signups started today, May 1.

[AnchorAlumna]

Has anybody heard how many have signed up so far?

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

2 days for each day of rush? That seems odd to me, and both proves my point from an earlier thread, and missed it completely. Why not have 3 days for round one, 2 for round 2 and 1 for rounds 3 and 4? It's the same total number of days but gives more time at the beginning when it's critical AND the most stressful time for everyone.

Does anyone have how long each of these parties is going to last? It's amazing what 10 more minutes could do at each party and giving all sides a little rest would also be huge for attitudes and girls not flouncing off in a huff.

It is difficult to accomodate the numbers -- Round 1 is 20 minutes, Round 2 is 25 minutes, and Round 3 is 40 minutes, and then there is Pref -- 50 minutes. From the other thread:

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

I agree that spending more time in each house would be better – but all rounds except pref are already scheduled to be 2 days long (at Bama anyway). This can be really grueling for the actives, since the chapters often have more parties than the maximum PNMs can attend (due to accommodating numbers in the physical space of the houses). In the bad ol’ days, for instance, on four-party day (now skit day – round 3), the PNMs could attend up to four parties, and each chapter conducted only four parties.


I'm not sure how many more days of recruitment would be needed in order to provide more opportunity for conversation, considering the numbers at some of these schools, but I don't think the actives would survive it!


I don’t know of a solution – just thinking out loud.

[HQWest]

Nope but they are starting before Auburn and Mississippi State this year?

[HQWest]

The last date for recs to be submitted is going to vary by chapter - I dont think we can say 100% sure?

[homeward*bound]

Thanks all. I know it will vary by chapter and work hard to get mine to our chapter as early as possible. Good luck to all the Alabama PNMs and chapters!

[bamamom11]

1134 registered so far!

[BamaMomma2013]

We are having such a great time getting my daughter ready for recruitment at Alabama!! Hopefully recs have been received by the chapters in time. Any advice would be most appreciated. She is OOS, but has been well-versed in recruitment at an SEC school.

[FSUZeta]

Good luck to your daughter, BamaMomma2013.

[BamaMomma2013]

Thank you! She is really getting excited now!!

[AnchorAlumna]

Topping 1,600 registered for recruitment.
The price goes up this weekend, so I expect we'll see lots of action!