Otterbein General Recruitment Thread

[PhoenixAzul]

Well, today was...interesting. We had all our girls show up who were supposed to (those who didn't have excused absence), and we had 2 add. I was really proud of my girls for that. Plus they were all on time! Unfortunately it rained the entire time. boo! The temperature didn't get too bad until after our lunch break though.

Let me say that I love open house as a PX because you get to see all the other houses, which you don't always get to do as an active. Plus, you get to see them at their absolute best. It's also rare that you get to see *EVERY* active in the same spot at the same time. I love being able to see the house as a whole...and I think its beneficial to the PNM's as well.

That being said, all of the houses looked PHENOMENAL today. Every one has done some sort of renovation/remodel in the last year or two. We didn't have any real problems, except for being let out early of one house, which through us and the groups ahead and behind off for a bit. didn't short anyone time, gave groups more time, but we eventually got back on schedule.

The group ahead of mine was ENORMOUS though. They've got 27 girls! It's actually 2 groups combined together. They are PX'd separately, but for the purpose of open house they are together. Complicated, especially for the smaller houses, but its what had to be done. It was always funny because the Recruitment Charis were like, "wow, small group! Yay!", when ours was pretty much the average size!

That all being said, it was SO HARD to not go up and just squeeze my sisters today. I probably did something that gave it away . But at the same time, my sisters were doing kick ass today. All I heard in the house was laughter and the girls in my group all seemed engaged. *whew*. Plus our house looked tip-top.

No word on what quota will be as of yet (probably low 20s). Off quota lists comprised of Juniors and Seniors and independent sophomores had to be turned in all ready. I pick up my group's invites on Tuesday and we have our meeting to distribute them on Tuesday night (busy night for me, mortarboard and PX like RIGHT after each other).

[knitsnpurls]

I'm glad that recruitment has started off well for all of the houses

I had a question though, what do you mean by "independent sophomores"? They're rushing but aren't assigned a group?

[Stef the Pef]

Go PhoenixAzul! I'm glad to hear that recruitment got off to a good start.

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by knitsnpurls

I'm glad that recruitment has started off well for all of the houses

I had a question though, what do you mean by "independent sophomores"? They're rushing but aren't assigned a group?

ah sorry, should have clarified.

Independent Sophomores are sophomores that went through rush freshman year and either a) signed independent or b) did not receive a bid. They may be added to a chapter's off quota list, or they may chose to go through recruitment again. Rushing again holds little to no stigma here, and upper classwomen regularly receive bids.

[FSUZeta]

caffeine has not kicked in yet-would you please explain what the term
"signed independent" means. i am not familiar with that term.

[PhoenixAzul]

hehe, man its hard to get the slang out here. It's funny because the NPC stuff I've picked up from the board sneaks into my language at Otterbein!

Signed independent-- when women sign their preference card, they may choose not to join a sorority at this time for whatever reason. To indicate this, they fill in "independent" as their first choice, and go on their merry way.

Where this gets sticky is the culture of suiciding (Single intention preference). I know that 80% of my pledge class suicided my sorority. It happens a lot, way too much in my opinion.

So a girl signs XYZ as her first choice, then signs "independent". If she doesn't get XYZ, she's independent.

After that happens, two things can occur in her favor.
1) she's put on the "did not match" list, which goes to the chapters after bid matching. Any chapter not at quota may chose to extend her a bid. She obviously doesn't have to accept, but there it is.
2) she may be extended a bid off quota the following year.

It's sorta complicated and scenario 1 doesn't happen that often at all.


I really wish girls would list more than 1 chapter, because I truly and honestly think that they can be happy in at least 2 chapters here...but there's no real repercussions for doing SIP.

[knitsnpurls]

Oh okay, that all makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation

[FSUZeta]

yes, thank you for the explanation. it sounds like a good idea to have pnms indicate that they will remain independent.