When to do rush

[PiRhoPres]

At our meeting last night we got into a discussion about when is the best time to do rush. My co-president and I agreed that the best time for locals to rush would be the week after the nationals do theirs. Our Vice President disagrees and thinks that there is no reason we can't do it the same week. We explained to her that it seems to be an unofficial thing here that the locals all do it the week after nationals, and that it would look unprofessional to do otherwise. Also it might be frowned upon by the other Greeks. I think it's important that the locals and nationals have a seperate rush week, and I always liked that it was usually done that way. Most girls go to the nationals first and if they decide it's not for them they decide to look into the locals. I always thought it was nice that they get a chance to do that the following week instead of waiting a semester. Any thoughts?

[OmegaPDPrez]

I think i would do it afterwards also.

[AlethiaSi]

My sorority is the only local on campus, and we do our rush at the same time, and it is harder to compete (with their decorations, etc) but we've come out on top more often. We also don't really have a choice about when to do rush, the school mandated our formal recruitment (in the spring) but doesn't handle our COB stuff... but we usually do it at the same time....
they got 10 girls this semester (i'm alumni now so they did the work lol)
let me know if you have other questions

[Yami_Cassie]

My concern is that our local is one of the few local greek organizations that actually are recognized by the school, and we have fought very hard to gain this status. There are TONS of national and local sororities and fraternities that we are competing with at this school and it seems rather unfair that these societies get first dibs on members when we too are registered. I blame the rush week being afterwards for being partially responsible for the fact that locals grow slower than national organizations.

[OmegaPDPrez]

Originally Posted by Yami_Cassie

I blame the rush week being afterwards for being partially responsible for the fact that locals grow slower than national organizations.

I personally think that a smaller organization is better. and that its one of the positives to being a local group. Im not saying that smaller is always the way to go, but sometimes people come to campus looking for something small, not everybody feels comfortable with taking on 40 new sisters, rather than taking say, 20?
I know my interests group has a unified opinion that smaller also means more personal and you dont feel as lost as you might would in a larger group. i'd like to think of my sorority as more of an exclusive thing, since we dont have to fight for numbers... (COB's and Snap's)

[BlueEyedButrfly]

QUALITY OVER QUANTITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!