Petals' Recruitment Story at Penn State (finally!)

[Reese87]

Good luck Petals and have FUN! I'm going through recruitment at IU so I *know how fun it's going to be with so many houses to visit and so many faces to see! Do your absolute best, I'm rooting for you!

[FSUZeta]

i love your quote, reese87. good luck to you at iu-hope that you will post your thread when the time comes.

[Lil_ChiO_Lady]

Good Luck Petals, my cousin goes to Penn State but is going to wait till next year to rush.

I wonder does it hurt your chances if you are a sophmore? I am not aware how strict they are about about primarily recruiting freshman?

[BearyLovely]

being a sophmore at psu doesn't hurt ur chances at all, most pledge classes end up being about half freshman and half sophmores plus a junior (the average class size being 20 +/- 2 based on how may girls go all the way through recuirtment and juniors don't count towards quota)... besides as a sophmore u may already have friends in sororities which will help make sure u don't fall through the cracks during recuritment.

[TigerOwl]

Penn State Panhellenic placed that comment on their website because they don't want hundreds of resumes/pictures and stray letters of recommendation sent to them.
Who can blame them!!!
However, they were contacted regarding the negative effect that comment makes about letters of recommendation. They do not refuse them at their doorstep, nor destroy them when they are accidently received. The Panhellenic office just puts them in the suite mailbox of the particular chapter. They will be looking at that particular wording and will try to reword it or delete it altogether. They realize that resumes/pics/recommendations are important to the chapters that make them important. So that is why they refer anyone reading the website to check with the national organization of the particular sorority.
Again I will state, letters of recommendation are always welcomed by the volunteer advisors of the chapters. Set yourself up to succeed. Set your daughters, grand daughters, neices and neighbors up to succeed.

Best of Luck Petals! Have your comfortable shoes/boots ready for the 1st invite round.
TigerOwl

[petals]

Hello all!
As I’m sitting here trying to get some major mid-term paper writing out of the way before recruitment starts on Sunday, I thought I’d pop in and say thanks for all of the kind words/info/advice. While it was probably a good idea to move recruitment to late October overall, I’m kind of hating that I’ll have to balance mid-term work and recruitment at the same time (at least in the earlier rounds, it looks like things last from 5:30 until 9 or 10 PM... which translates to actually sitting down and starting homework sometime after 11 )

I’m SOOOO so so excited to get this thing started, though… 20 houses *is* a lot to take in, but as LionTamer said, I’m feeling really confident that there’ll be a sorority that’s perfect for me somewhere in there.

Something that I’ve been thinking of that will probably be a big help once the parties start next week are some fall-back kinds of questions to ask if conversation gets slow between a member and myself. I know I found a list of them somewhere on GC once, and I’ll definitely try and find it again this weekend, but if anyone has some suggestions for example questions or directions to go towards, that’d be such a help! Blanking out and akward conversations are definitely my biggest fears for the upcoming week… fainting and breaking my neck or spilling a drink all over someone are nothing

Thanks again, guys!

[KSUViolet06]

Try to ask things that can't be answered with one or 2 words:

*Of course you want to ask about their philanthropy and the philanthropy events they hold. That gets the sorority members talking.

*Ask about their social events. What socials did you have last year? With who? What was your favorite?

*What was your favorite memoriy from your new member period?

*Tell me about Bigs and Littles, what's that like?

*What is the most memorable award your chapter has won?

*What are some local service projects that you participate in?