SPRING RECRUITMENT AT UGA

[SWTXBelle]

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

It's just an idea - I think we all are looking ways for ways to improve recruitment. I would be interested in knowing if any school does do it that way, and if that made a difference.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

It's just an idea - I think we all are looking ways for ways to improve recruitment. I would be interested in knowing if any school does do it that way, and if that made a difference.

Absolutely. I was just thinking of UGA specifically and even there it might help; it just might have some unintended consequences as well.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

I tend to think that bringing in members from other chapters actually hurts a chapter. The women may be passionate about XYZ, but they can't speak to the experience of being a member of THAT chapter, which is alot of what the PNMs will be asking about. The women from other schools can't talk about how fun the mixer with ___ fraternity was, or why they do _____ for the local philanthropy event. That leads PNMs to wonder "Why are some of the girls at XYZ from different schools, and the girls at AAA, BBB, etc. all from the same school?"

[SWTXBelle]

Agreed. I've never know bringing in other chapter's members to work. (But of course, my experience is limited.)

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Agreed. I've never know bringing in other chapter's members to work. (But of course, my experience is limited.)

I think I've heard of a few cases where girls were brought in to sing or stand around to make the group look bigger in the whole chapter setting, but didn't actually do any one on one rushing.

That seems like it might help if you had enough actual chapter members to still rush girls. When you've got 70 or so PNMs per party, as I think you would at UGA for first round (1200/17), I think all the chapter have 70+ members. So if you brought in some members from other chapters to seem as big and the party as full as others would be, maybe?

I honestly don't know what they do these days in terms of door chants or whatever, but I can remember all of us assembling in the foyer. If we only had 100 girls and other groups had 150+, the first impression was still different even if PNMs liked the members they met. With girls from other campuses to swell that first assembly, you could avoid that and still only really have PNMs meet your chapter. It's still a little bait and switch and for that reason undesirable, but when you're dealing with first impressions carrying a lot of weight, I'm not going to judge.