"No Frills" Recruitment - Need advice

[SigKapSweetie]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

That's generous. At my school it was a $450 maximum budget for all of recruitment- including food for pref!

When I read that number, I almost died. Florida's budget for their 'no-frills' recruitment is substantially (think thousands and thousands of dollars) higher.

[tunatartare]

Yes, you end up having to get very creative with a number like that.

[PeppyGPhiB]

We didn't have ANY food at our rush parties. The year I rushed we didn't even have water, and the year after we didn't either. When I was on panhellenic we changed that, because it was ridiculous trying to get through hours of talking and singing without it. I'm guessing that they probably still do not have food.

[MSKKG]

At the Univ. of South Carolina, each house has a cooler of water outside for the PNMs and the rush counselors. Refreshments are still offered inside, but at least the PNMs are not dehydrated!

[viv1967]

Wow, rush with nationals is certainly different from rushing a school that is comprised of all locals!

We (the 5 locals) each have a designated day during open rush week, where the PNMs come visit whatever group they feel the most interested in. You aren't required to attend every group, but you are encouraged to meet all the groups. Generally, it is a meet and greet, with food and drink; the sisters introduce themselves, talk about the group, show off pictures and such; have the PNMs(and we don't even call them that) intro themselves...and every chills and hangs for an hour or two, and then we go off and have a party with the fraternity that we were paired with for Rush.

Definitely less expensive, but still lots of fun.

[AXIDplace4me]

We are no frills but try to be the most frills we can. we have a total recruitment budget of 650, but this doesn't include bid day (thankfully). we have very strict height limits that are placed on everything. For instance, items on a table cannot be taller than six feet, which allows us to put bookcases on tables to increase our size of our brag table. we also have the limit on center pieces (1'). we have very similar outfits for each day. we group order the shirts but say have a blue jean skirt and brown flip-flops to go with the pink polo. we cannot serve any food to the pnms. the only food we can have in our room is water for the sisters between parties. we have a slideshow during philanthropy night, and a skit during theme.

It's kind of funny how the schools are so different. Baylor is definitely NOT a no frills recruitment school, however, we were not allowed to serve food of any kind. We could go all out with everything else, but no food!