JessSigKap's Retro UMD Recruitment

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by susan314

Did anyone else's chapter track who you tended to cross preference with? (Probably only an issue on campuses with a lot of chapters - we had 16 chapters total in my day, but for the most part primarily cross-preferenced with about 7 of them.) The University gave us a bid list showing where every PNM ended up going - the statistic wasn't too hard to compile, by looking at what chapters girls you preffed ended up in, finding out from the pledges where else they preffed besides us, etc.

I think we give our new members a survey asking who they preffed. At least we did when I pledged in Spring 2004.

[ForeverRoses]

We unofficially tracked this- and it was amazing. I remember that out of the 50 women in my pledge class, 40 of them had preffed the same other chapter.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

We unofficially tracked this- and it was amazing. I remember that out of the 50 women in my pledge class, 40 of them had preffed the same other chapter.

Wow! That was our biggest problem - our pledges preffed almost every other house. We said that was because we had "broad appeal".

[violetpretty]

I'd say most of our NMs pref 2 of 5 other chapters.

[key*key]

I am so glad you went through recruitment and found a wonderful home. I looooove all of the diversity and acceptance. My school isn't that willing to do that, sad, bad. I liked this and like Sigma Kappa and amso pleased you love it so much. Great thread. Great ending. I hope lots of PMNs that don't fit the sterotype but who are great girls and would be great sisters read this one. Congrats and thanks alot! LOL

[ZetaGirl22]

WOW that sounds like a pretty disorganized recruitment! I graduated from UMD in Spring '02 so 2 years before you got there? I was a Rho Chi my Jr yr and I had my list of girls by New Years and had sent them all letters well before school started again. I think I would have cried if I was in the same situation. I totally went back to help that year too! I missed the second day of I guess what would have been tours then because I wrecked my car on the way to College Park..........awesome LOL!!!!!!!!! And I can guess which chapter was mine but I wont say. A lot of things you said really made sense. I think things are probably a little different now, but yeah

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by ZetaGirl22

WOW that sounds like a pretty disorganized recruitment! I graduated from UMD in Spring '02 so 2 years before you got there? I was a Rho Chi my Jr yr and I had my list of girls by New Years and had sent them all letters well before school started again. I think I would have cried if I was in the same situation.

I did cry! That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a Rho Gamma, to make sure at least 10 girls going through recruitment knew what was going on!