Sorority Recruitment Ideas for new sorority

Ky2786 · #1 11-14-2006, 10:19 PM

Ok, the sorority is about almost a month old. we did not have the chance to go in front of student senate until next tuesday so once we do that we'll be established and recognized.
we are a local sorority, social but also have academic requirements but are established as a social sorority.
our rush is going to be 1 week long. there are no other sororities on campus we are the first. we do not have a sorority house, of course because we are h the first sorority on campus. as of now we do not plan on colonizing with a national sorority. we currently have 16 founding members, we do not know how many girls will rush next semester, but we hope to have quite a few.
to be honest we have a mix of different personalities of the founding sisters, some are preppy while others are girly AND preppy so really i dont have one answer for that question, we are quite diverse.

AChiOhSnap · #2 11-14-2006, 10:37 PM

I recommend you look through the recruitment stories forum. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of different stories that describe recruitments at different schools. An introduction night, a philanthropy night, and a formal "pref party" -- often with desserts and/or mocktails are pretty standard, but often schools have different theme nights above and beyond those. I'd start w/the recruitment stories forum, and you can pick and choose what works with your sorority and your campus.

Ky2786 · #3 11-15-2006, 01:22 AM

ok thank you im sorry if you were upset because i didn't pose my questions the way they should have been.

AlexMack · #4 11-15-2006, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ky2786

ok thank you im sorry if you were upset because i didn't pose my questions the way they should have been.

No one was upset-you decided to get defensive. The thing is, these questions are asked over and over again and you might have done better to search through threads and forming your questions on some sort of solid basis. No one here knows anything about your school, your sorority, anything like that.

Ky2786 · #5 11-15-2006, 04:30 AM

i seriously...did not want this to be a huge debate...i apologized for not wording the questions correctly, and reposted the question. i didn't get defensive at all i just didn't understand how i was supposed to ask something i didn't know. i did search through the threads and found nothing that would be useful for my size school...it's small. I could have noted that in the question now that i read back and realize that.

Ky2786 · #6 11-15-2006, 04:42 AM

the thing about our sorority is we dont have houses, its 16 girls including myself trying to get this up and running smoothly which will take a while. we want to rush the week or possibly the week after we come back for the spring semester. we have a small school compared to other schools, also very very diverse population. im really just trying to find ideas that will benefit the interests of the population. we are not affiliated with any national sorority we are our own, local one. this may sound not so fun to larger sororities im not really sure, but for one thing during rush week we were going to give PNM's a 10 or 15 question quiz on the founding sisters, we don't really know specifics yet but that's something we have been thinking about. we plan on making posters for the school, banners, ordering rush shirts. ( we already have our initial shirts)

i also had a question about Rho Chi counseler? i was told that rho chi is a sorority...but the way i've seen it used on this site leads me to believe that it's used in all sororities as what they refer to the rush officer as? am i correct? Being the Rush officer, i don't know if i should or should not have that title of rho chi, or if there is other names for it or not.

#7 11-15-2006, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Ky2786

i also had a question about Rho Chi counseler? i was told that rho chi is a sorority...but the way i've seen it used on this site leads me to believe that it's used in all sororities as what they refer to the rush officer as? am i correct? Being the Rush officer, i don't know if i should or should not have that title of rho chi, or if there is other names for it or not.

Recruitment Chairs are not the same as Recruitment Counselors (aka Rho Chi, Rho Gamma, Pi Chi, etc.). Recruitment Chairs plan the events for their sorority. Recruitment Counselors are members of NPC sororities who disaffiliate from her sorority for the duration of Formal Recruitment. She will assist the PNMs during the process of Recruitment, answering questions and running a Recruitment Group. They cannot reveal their sorority, so they remain neutral and don't influence their PNMs.

A lot of the terminology you will see here in this forum are NPC based, and if you want to brush up on some Greek terms, here's a neat list.

Again, there's a lot of good ideas (over 6 years worth) on GreekChat that'll help you with rush ideas. Please take the time to read the threads as this will probably be the best way for you to get help for your new sorority.