University of Alabama Recruitment 2007

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by magnoliacurious

So it sounds like you agree with me that fraternities as a whole would have lots more members if they historically had a more emphasized formal rush, am I right? I would think even if the individual ones didn't have a quota, and the popular ones knew about who they wanted already, the upshot of having more go through rush was that several more individual frats would end up taking more new members as well as the system as a whole than would have been the case with most of the recruiting done informally, no? In fact, when I told an Ole Miss fraternity alum who considered going to Alabama out-of-high-school recently about how Alabama frats recruit; he looked surprised and said "that's interesting, I assumed every school did it like this (formal fraternity recruitment)."

Yes, I do agree. And Alabama DOES have a formal fraternity rush (they still call it rush), but it is extremely small compared to the sororities' formal process.

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Yes, I do agree. And Alabama DOES have a formal fraternity rush (they still call it rush), but it is extremely small compared to the sororities' formal process.

Thanks, that's about what I thought! Yeah, I knew they had a formal rush, but it's been much less important as I understand it than informal recruitment. Although like I've been saying, they have been placing more importance on it, particularly for out-of-state guys and those who don't know which fraternity they want to be in. I guess they've felt they have a good enough number of members and pretty much all the clout and whatever else they may want. But it seems like they could be really, REALLY big!! Just my humble two cents. Thanks again!