Since we have deffered recruitment, we use fall quarter to really pump up recruitment. There's usually an "all greek" pannel (with food) and then there's like a women's only mixer, where the PNMS and sorority women meet in the campus center and eat ice cream and talk individually...it lets the girls meet the PNMS, the PNMs meet the other PNMs who have signed up, and usually a bunch of girls sign up there because the friends that dragged them there are rushing and they want to too! Don't underestimate peer power. A lot of girls don't want to go through rush alone...they want friends to do it too, so having an event that mixes the girls who have allreadu signed up and those on the bubble might help.
I was a PX this year and sat the recruitment sign up table a lot this year...going into winter break, we had maybe 69 girls signed up, with 6 sororities. Come back from winter break, and before opening ceremony on Wednesday, we reached 100! Then we had 25 more girls sign up the morning of Open house and got funneled into the PX groups with girls who didn't show up. Made it interesting at the chapters...the girls always had to make up new name tags and what have you.
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