How to keep the freshman interested???

[ASTalumna06]

But girls don't come to campus all ready for recruitment. I didn't even think of joining a sorority until halfway through my sophomore year (after I was practically dragged to a recruitment event), and that goes for pretty much everyone else in my chapter (and all the chapters on campus). Like I've said in other posts, we don't have people "rushing" to join. And people don't understand what the school rules are concerning recruitment. They don't get packets before they arrive at school, and they don't read up on every detail concerning recruitment.

And when I said "without dirty rushing", I meant we don't say to them, "you'll get a bid if you stay through next semester"

[33girl]

I guess I just don't see what the problem is here. If you ask a freshman to an event, just say "freshmen can't join until second semester, but you can still come to events now and see if it's something you're interested in." That's not bid promising in the least.

And seriously - this is what we were talking about in the other thread with a structured Panhellenic recruitment being of help. If the rush process is the same all year round, I can understand why some girls would be confused. Usually when 1st semester freshmen aren't allowed to join, they get a more structured "introduction" in the form of formal rush once they are allowed.

You need lots more PR on a Panhellenic level, rather than each chapter doing their own.