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Sophomore Recruitment
Does anyone else's school have sophomore recruitment? Has it improved or has it impaired your chapter's numbers or your greek system's numbers overall? What are your thoughts on the process?
Here's my take on it:
My school has had sophomore recruitment since (I think) 1996. Since then, we have lost at least 4 fraternities and overall Greek numbers have dropped drastically. It's very rare for anyone to go through recruitment with an open mind because they have a year to form opinions of each of the houses. It's less "I want to go Greek" and more "If I can't be an XYZ, I don't want to be anything". This means that the big houses are getting bigger and the small houses are withering away. It is very hard to recruit women because they tend to want to go wherever their freshman friends go, and if any of their friends want to stay independent (or if one of their friends doesn't get a bid), they all stay independent. (This is the same for fraternities, but I'm speaking in terms of sororities because that's what I'm most familiar with.) We frequently run into situations like this: Say there are 4 women who are really tight and they all want to go XYZ during formal recruitment. On Bid Day, 3 of them get into XYZ and one gets into ABC. The one in ABC will most likely decline her bid, even though she cannot get into XYZ anyway. Ok, enough of my rant on how much I dislike sophomore recruitment. What do you guys think?
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