Recruitment at Southern Mississippi

BadCat25 · #1 08-09-2009, 06:36 PM

Wasn't the reason Ole Miss moved recruitment back till school had already started because many girls would drop out of school if they didn't get a bid?
TupeloHoney - I hope your niece realizes that this is most likely her only chance to go greek and if she drops out that will be it for her? I don't like to tell other people what to do but I think she should stick it out and give the chapter who does give her a bid, whoever that is, a fair chance. I was in a similar situation and I am so glad now I didn't drop out of recruitment when I was cut by the chapter I thought was the only one for me.

gee_ess · #2 08-09-2009, 07:43 PM

[QUOTE]Wasn't the reason Ole Miss moved recruitment back till school had already started because many girls would drop out of school if they didn't get a bid?
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I can't speak for Ole Miss, but this was the reason Arkansas tried it for a few years. There were definitely cases of pnms leaving school after a bad rush and the university was losing money. With rush occuring before school, the girls were dropping without much, if any, financial penalty.

This year, I am glad to report, rush is back to the week before school. Mid September rush (imo) is a nightmare for everyone involved. Trying to attend school while you are having rush is nuts. Parties start around 5 pm and one round last year ended at 11:00. Voting lasted until 7 am the next morning. There were no actives from our house in class that day!

I digress...sorry!

carnation · #3 08-09-2009, 08:00 PM

When I was a teenager, my mother--who used to live on the main street of the Arkansas campus where most of the houses are-- would tell me stories of how during rush, girls would leave in the middle of rush back in the day. (1930s-40s) She said they'd be packing fur coats and all this really expensive stuff into their cars and crying hysterically and then they'd screech off down Maple, never to be seen again.

Of course, until a few years after I was there, Arkansas had 'bed rush' and some years, over half of the PNMs didn't get bids.

Benzgirl · #4 08-09-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

Of course, until a few years after I was there, Arkansas had 'bed rush' and some years, over half of the PNMs didn't get bids.

I thought I had heard it all. Now I need a definition.

carnation · #5 08-09-2009, 08:27 PM

Bed rush is when each sorority sets its individual quota by how many open beds they have in their house at that time. I have a 1978 Razorback yearbook right here and it says that that school year, 624 girls rushed and 264 got bids. Way to make enemies for the Greek system!

CougarGrad · #6 08-10-2009, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by carnation

Bed rush is when each sorority sets its individual quota by how many open beds they have in their house at that time.

Caramba. I can think of a few campuses where that would make recruitment interesting, to say the least. For example, I know of a campus with a double-digit number of NPC groups; the physically smallest house on campus houses fewer than 50 girls, and some other houses hold (I'm told) 75+.