Rushing as a SENIOR in the Fall, informal recruitment. Advice?

[KSUViolet06]

Also, if your chapter is already kind of "upperclassman heavy" (ex: you tend to pledge a lot of sophs and juniors,) it makes no sense to add to the heaviness by adding seniors who are going to graduate in a year. You tend to prefer to stick to sophs and freshmen to even things out.

The housing thing is important as well. If you're at a school where living-in isn't something that's super popular (ex: an "everybody lives-in sophomore or junior year" school), you'd be hard pressed to find a senior who is going to want to live-in.

Of course there are cases of seniors who will be around longer because they transfered, but that typically isn't the case.

Even if you don't have housing or are at liberty to consider pledging a senior (ex: you're at a small school or something where it doesn't matter), it's a real crapshoot (whether she's graduating in 2 years or within the next year.)

I've seen it happen where Suzy Senior plays the "I'm more mature, I'll be around after graduation, and have more to contribute" angle, then gets a bid and falls off the face of the Earth, citing "I'm a senior and have things to do/internship/etc. and it takes up too much time" or "I'd rather live with my boyfriend or in an apt with my friends" as the reason.

So I can totally see why chapters decide not to take them. It's a chapter by chapter thing.