Local Recruitment

OmegaPDPrez · #1 08-27-2007, 04:44 PM

Locals tell me about your recruitment!!!!!
I am curious as to what is going on all over campuses as the semseter begins for many students. Today is the first day of classes for many people in the state of PA. And i did wear my letters b/c i want to get some publicity for my sorority. This will be our first year trying to recruit women, who ( iguess id call strangers) -- we are excited and i'm wondering if we should set a quota for ourselves. ... any way. I want to know whats up with everyone else and Fall 2007 recruitment for the locals~ Sept tenth, we have our info meeting and until then i will keep a tally of interests to post up for you guys, all the way until we have our rush week which actually starts the day after.
so good luck to everyone... and please fill me in!

Xidelt · #2 08-27-2007, 10:42 PM

What would be the point of setting quota for yourselves? Just try to get as much positive PR/advertising as you can, try to have current sisters each invite 2 or 3 friends to the interest meeting, and extend bids to girls who truly show an interest in your organization. This is your first rush. I think your goal should be to have as well an organized, publicized rush as possible. That's a big enough job all by itself!

MaryAmanda · #3 08-31-2007, 11:42 AM

Coyote extended 4 bids last night and welcomed back one new member who deferred her NM period from the previous semester. COB is next week...

AlphaFrog · #4 08-31-2007, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Xidelt

What would be the point of setting quota for yourselves? Just try to get as much positive PR/advertising as you can, try to have current sisters each invite 2 or 3 friends to the interest meeting, and extend bids to girls who truly show an interest in your organization. This is your first rush. I think your goal should be to have as well an organized, publicized rush as possible. That's a big enough job all by itself!

ASA sets "Targets" that are different from the campus Quota for many reasons. Sometimes the "Target" is to take Quota from Rush, and then COB up to Campus Total. Sometimes the "Target" is the amount needed to make dues competitive. Sometimes "Target" for a chapter on a campus that's a struggling group is less than Quota, because it's not realistic to expect them to take Quota, and by pushing them to do so, they're accepting sub-par women back, when they really shouldn't. Etc...

It might sound silly to set Quota for a group who's not really "competing" against other groups, but just saying "We'll take however many quality women walk through the door" can be setting yourself up to NOT work hard at PR and just generally be lazy about recruitment of new members.

ZetaXiDelta · #5 09-04-2007, 04:58 PM

We have our informational night tomorrow night, we are SOOOOO excited!

PhoenixAzul · #6 09-04-2007, 06:07 PM

Apparently, Otterbein (all locals) is doing something different this year. They're having a fall recruitment for upper classwomen and for interested freshmen. Now, to make this more confusing...there will be house tours in fall quarter. Upper classwomen and independent sophomores (sophomores who have rushed and chose not to affiliate with a sorority or dropped from recruitment) may be given bids. However, for freshmen women, this is a "get to know you" exercise, where they will be allowed to tour the house, but cannot be extended a bid.

(still with me?)

Add to this the fact that not all sororities will be taking a class during fall quarter. 3 chapters (including my own) took pledge classes in Winter and Spring. Taking a class this quarter would be 3 straight quarters of nothing but pledging/rush, and I don't know if the chapters can handle that sort of stress, especially because Formal rush happens in Winter quarter, which would be 4 straight quarters of rush/pledging, and no time to be a "chapter" as a whole. I'm kinda fascinated to see how this whole thing plays out, who takes girls who doesn't, or if the campus even responds to it.

AOII Angel · #7 09-05-2007, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

Apparently, Otterbein (all locals) is doing something different this year. They're having a fall recruitment for upper classwomen and for interested freshmen. Now, to make this more confusing...there will be house tours in fall quarter. Upper classwomen and independent sophomores (sophomores who have rushed and chose not to affiliate with a sorority or dropped from recruitment) may be given bids. However, for freshmen women, this is a "get to know you" exercise, where they will be allowed to tour the house, but cannot be extended a bid.

(still with me?)

Add to this the fact that not all sororities will be taking a class during fall quarter. 3 chapters (including my own) took pledge classes in Winter and Spring. Taking a class this quarter would be 3 straight quarters of nothing but pledging/rush, and I don't know if the chapters can handle that sort of stress, especially because Formal rush happens in Winter quarter, which would be 4 straight quarters of rush/pledging, and no time to be a "chapter" as a whole. I'm kinda fascinated to see how this whole thing plays out, who takes girls who doesn't, or if the campus even responds to it.

Even if you aren't extending bids, it would probably be in your group's best interest to participate in the event so the freshmen will know you exist. It would not be pleasant when you do extend bids if no one took you seriously because they'd met all the "real" sororities in the fall.