Holding Rush Events and Getting worried

[rush chair 01]

Oh man, I need to correct something I said. When I wrote "we had been advised that we should step aside and let the NPCs take all of the recruits and have us just get the left-overs" I meant to type "SHOULDN'T step aside..." my fault. But yeah, normally we wait until the NPC's formal recruitment is finished and then hold our events or our number of sisters. If you want more details regarding our process, feel free to pm me; I don't want to give away my sorority.

And that sounds good as far as going out to dinner with just a few girls. My sorority generally does fall into the "selling the sorority" category, so I will try to discourage that when we discuss having more opportunities for women to join this semester. And those negative girls are older in our house, but I don't think it's related to being burnt out. Haha, they just aren't the most tactful people. That is why I am having issues dealing with them, and I am DEFINITELY not the only one who has noticed.

[ASTalumna06]

Small activities are definitely good! In an informal recruitment setting, you want to truly get to know PNMs (and you can't do that at an event with a ton of sisters and a few PNMs. A few sisters and a few PNMs works best). As a local who doesn't participate in any kind of formal recruitment, you have the luxury of doing whatever you'd like for "recruitment events." And you have all the time in the world! There's none of the "Ok, 30 minutes is up.. next house"-type restrictions. You can invite them to dinner, go to a play, have them join an intramural team with you, ask for their help with a philanthropy... anything! Use that to your advantage.

And don't feel as though every sister has to know all of the PNMs like the back of their hand. This is where "trusting your sisters" comes into play. While I don't want you to reveal any of your membership selection procedures to us, just make sure that you're choosing girls in such a way that allows the entire chapter to know her without actually "knowing her." I mean, think about sorority chapters with 100+ members. Clearly every single member can't truly get to know all of the hundreds upon hundreds of PNMs who walk through their door in a matter of 2 weeks (and sometimes less).

If I'm a sister who doesn't really know a PNM, but she looks AMAZING on paper, and the majority of the chapter thinks she'd make an outstanding sister, then I probably won't bitch and complain when they want to give her a bid.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by rush chair 01

Oh man, I need to correct something I said. When I wrote "we had been advised that we should step aside and let the NPCs take all of the recruits and have us just get the left-overs" I meant to type "SHOULDN'T step aside..." my fault. But yeah, normally we wait until the NPC's formal recruitment is finished and then hold our events or our number of sisters. If you want more details regarding our process, feel free to pm me; I don't want to give away my sorority.

Oh that's good, I didn't want to have to come smack the NPC at your school upside the head.

I don't think it's a question of "leftovers" - the girls who choose your group are most likely looking for something different than they would get from the national groups. It's just a question of making them aware that you're there - girls might be going to the NPC groups thinking they're the only option. Maybe you could have an open house event before NPC rush starts and then have your regular rush events afterward? If you do this, make sure you make it clear that you're local, not NPC, etc etc etc.