Informal Recruitment

Mercergirl2010 · #1 01-17-2007, 01:34 PM

Hi! I'm new here, and I thought I would ask all of you a question.

I'm currently going through informal recruitment for one sorority on campus, and there are 3 events this week. It is all very casual, and we can stay as little or as long as we want. The last event is on Saturday.

I'm confused about how the whole bid process works during informal. Is there like a whole "bid day" on Sunday? Or will they give us our bids that night? I'm very confused about how all of this is going to work. I think that every girl invited initially can come to all 3 events.

Please help???
Thanks!

AlexMack · #2 01-17-2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercergirl2010

Hi! I'm new here, and I thought I would ask all of you a question.

I'm currently going through informal recruitment for one sorority on campus, and there are 3 events this week. It is all very casual, and we can stay as little or as long as we want. The last event is on Saturday.

I'm confused about how the whole bid process works during informal. Is there like a whole "bid day" on Sunday? Or will they give us our bids that night? I'm very confused about how all of this is going to work. I think that every girl invited initially can come to all 3 events.

Please help???
Thanks!

Are there other sororities doing informal as well? I did informal and we held bid day, but every other sorority was doing informal as well, which was why. If it's just one sorority doing informal, that's different.
My advice-go to every event. Other than that, no one here will know when bids are handed out.

NutBrnHair · #3 01-17-2007, 02:12 PM

The Panhellenic Advisor will be able to answer your questions. They are good questions and the staff in Student Life should be able to give you specific answers.

GO BEARS!

Chris Mauer · #4 01-17-2007, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by centaur532

Are there other sororities doing informal as well? I did informal and we held bid day, but every other sorority was doing informal as well, which was why. If it's just one sorority doing informal, that's different.
My advice-go to every event. Other than that, no one here will know when bids are handed out.

That's good advice.

Stef the Pef · #5 01-18-2007, 05:05 AM

Informal is just that--informal. Different sororities hand out bids differently. Chances are, you'll get a call after Saturday or you may even get a bid on Saturday--it's all up to the sorority.

It gets a little hairy when we have girls pursuing infomal recruitment in different rooms when another group decides to hand out bids earlier than us, but that's precisely that--the sororities set their own schedules.

Good luck from one Bear to a different Bear!

AChiOhSnap · #6 01-18-2007, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Mercergirl2010

Hi! I'm new here, and I thought I would ask all of you a question.

I'm currently going through informal recruitment for one sorority on campus, and there are 3 events this week. It is all very casual, and we can stay as little or as long as we want. The last event is on Saturday.

I'm confused about how the whole bid process works during informal. Is there like a whole "bid day" on Sunday? Or will they give us our bids that night? I'm very confused about how all of this is going to work. I think that every girl invited initially can come to all 3 events.

Please help???
Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stef the Pef

Informal is just that--informal. Different sororities hand out bids differently. Chances are, you'll get a call after Saturday or you may even get a bid on Saturday--it's all up to the sorority.

It gets a little hairy when we have girls pursuing infomal recruitment in different rooms when another group decides to hand out bids earlier than us, but that's precisely that--the sororities set their own schedules.

Good luck from one Bear to a different Bear!

Mercer, keep in mind too that informal works a little bit differently than formal (if you're familiar with the process)...while in formal recruitment there's generally a high placement rate of women who complete the process, this is not necessarily the case with informal. Sororites don't have a quota in informal recruitment like they do in formal and therefore don't have to take any set number of women. There's really no way to tell whether or not you're going to be extended a bid, or even to predict how many women going through informal will receive bids. I'm sorry if you already know this, but I just wanted to reiterate since all this informal stuff might seem a little confusing if you weren't familiar with the process. Good luck!

Mercergirl2010 · #7 01-22-2007, 12:04 AM

OK so here's an update on my week. I went through informal recruitment this past week, and tonight I got invited back to another event at the same sorority. Is that a good thing to get invited back to an event? I'm completely clueless about this whole process.

How does your sororities and chapters do informal recruitment?