Greek Events

[BetteDavisEyes]

Recs. Get recs to the groups. There are 13 NPC sororities on that campus so you definitely want to put yourself out there. 2 recs are preferable.

DISCLAIMER since I do not attend nor do I have much knowlege about Virginia Tech. You might be at a slight disadvantage since you are missing all the fall events but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

[breathesgelatin]

I believe I posted a comment to your original post within another thread.

I'm roughly familiar with VT recruitment but not very. As in, my house mom's daughter was Greek there and told me about her experiences and my chapter did a joint recruitment event with the VT Pi Phi chapter.

My impression is that not attending Greek events might hurt you slightly but not overly much.

The bigger issue is that you haven't been getting to know any women there at parties, club events, etc. But maybe you know some from HS...?

I would say not to worry about it too much. There is nothing you can do to fix the situation, you know? Focus on getting recs and improving the aspects of your recruitment resume that you can control, like having a great transfer-in GPA, etc.

[violetpretty]

I have a few friends who joined chapters at VT. Recs are less important at VT than other schools in the ACC (Clemson, FSU, UNC, UVa, etc). If you know (personally) alumnae of sororities at VT or collegians from other chapters (in some cases), go ahead and ask them to write you a rec. Asking 2 ladies per NPC at your local alumnae panhellenic to write you recs might be a waste of your time. Don't get me wrong, recs can't hurt, but there will be little payoff for those efforts.

Do you have any friends from high school in sororities at VT? Do you have any friends who are going through recruitment next semester at VT? How far is VT from your current school? If you're not too far, and you get the chance during a long weekend/fall break, I'd visit your friends in sororities (if they are good friends, you don't want it to look thinly-veiled) and/or visit any friends who are going through to go to some events this semester. If you can't visit any friends in sororities at VT, at least call them or chat online to put yourself on their radar.

While these events do give chapters some idea of who they may be interested in, the idea is to spread interest in going Greek throughout the whole semester; that one girl will sign up and bring a couple friends to XYZ's philanthropy event, and they'll want to sign up too.