2007 Recruitment

[AlethiaSi]

Hi girls, did a search, didn't see an ongoing status/ results thread for this year.

Been talking to my girls, we have 10 seriously interested and tonight is Bid night... i'm so excited!!! 10 for fall is HUGE (for us, and for any chapter on my campus)
We're also having major competition with a chapter that is recolonizing on campus, thus eliminating any pledge period and allowing them to be founding members..... sigh...
i'm keeping my fingers crossed!!!

[OmegaPDPrez]

Good Luck!

[ZetaXiDelta]

We gave out 10 bids and 8 girls are accepting! The other two are not accepting their bids this semester due to time/money concerns. This was our first rush week so we're extremely happy with the results!

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by ZetaXiDelta

We gave out 10 bids and 8 girls are accepting! The other two are not accepting their bids this semester due to time/money concerns. This was our first rush week so we're extremely happy with the results!

YAY! i just found out that we gave out 9 bids, and 4 accepted, but there is one girl i know who is my best guy friend's sister and I know she's interested, so i'm hoping I can talk to her. There is also COB, where we get most of our girls.
i'm so happy for you girls!! yay! congratulations!!

[ZetaXiDelta]

That is so awesome!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!

[ZetaXiDelta]

Ok, so one of the girls we did not give a bid to has been confronting sisters and asking them why she did not receive a bid. I just sent her an e-mail letting her know that member selection is private, but I was wondering what to do if she continues to hound us about it.

[AlethiaSi]

I Pm'd you.

[Serena_TPhiB]

We're the second oldest local on our campus (NYU), and we've been struggling with membership for a while now... (Our last class over 2 people was my big's in fall '04, which had 5... since then it's been 2 (both graduated), 1 (our president), 1 (me), 2(our last class this past spring.)

BUT this fall we switched over to formal rush (I was recruitment chair) and we got 4 girls from recruitment, (which is usually impossible for us), snapped another girl, then COBed 2 more. Sadly a girl I really liked from our original 4 dropped due to worrying about her school work, but we still have 6 excited girls, 4 freshmen and 2 sophomores.

Now I'm just worried about making sure no one else drops! No one in the sorority is really into cute stuff like decorating bid cards, bid glasses, picture frames, etc. except for me... I LOVE that stuff and it might be lame, but I think it really endears girls to the sorority and keeps them into it even when they're stressed with school/work/etc. SO, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas for me? What kinds of cute non ritual things do you do for you new girls? ANY idea is welcome!!

Congrats on everyone's recruitment!!! It seems it was a good fall for locals!

[ZetaXiDelta]

Our new girls loved the pledge ribbons we gave them...they wear them all the time!

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by ZetaXiDelta

Our new girls loved the pledge ribbons we gave them...they wear them all the time!

Don't they have to wear them? lol jk

[ZetaXiDelta]

Well, they don't HAVE to. We did ask them to display them as much as possible though..which they love to do!

[Xidelt]

congrats on your alpha pledge class! what do the pledge ribbons look like? are they your colors on a pin, or did you incorporate any of your symbols?

[ZetaXiDelta]

Thanks!! Our pledge ribbons are our colors on a pin - sort of like the breast cancer ribbons but with 3 colors (hot pink, silver, light pink).

How do you post pics on here? I have a group photo of our Alpha girls wearing the ribbons...

[Xidelt]

I'm not sure how to post pics...every time I try, it doesn't work
On the quick reply toolbar, there is an "insert picture" button..did you try that?
What do your sister pins look like?

[ZetaXiDelta]

Well, I guess you can't really see the ribbons that well Anyway, these are the beautiful ladies of the Alpha pledge class!