Curious about joining a colonizing chapter

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by KSUdamsel

Also, I am worried about the timing of recruitment. If I don't get into ZTA, I think I would like to be in another sorority. However, ZTA isn't taking place in formal recruitment this year, and is instead holding their own recruitment process several weeks after. I am worried that I will go through recruitment, possibly receive a bid from another sorority and have to turn it down, and then not be given a bid at ZTA.

You could go through recruitment, and if you do receive invitations to preference, go, and THEN decide whether you want to rank or try for ZTA. No harm in getting more information.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

during some colonizations that happen during the fall, the colonizing sorority will be included in the first round events and their colonizing team will make a presentation to all the pnms. they explain the recruitment process for the colony, give the history of the organization-basic information. sometimes panhellenic will allow those pnms who are interested in joining the colony to drop out from formal recruitment after a certain round. Please understand that there is no guarantee that those that do drop out of formal will receive and invitation to be part of the colony.

As opposed to not letting PNMs drop out? Recruitment is a voluntary process. PNMs can drop out any time they like. I am unsure of what you mean by this.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

As opposed to not letting PNMs drop out? Recruitment is a voluntary process. PNMs can drop out any time they like. I am unsure of what you mean by this.

I think she may mean that if they do that and don't get picked by the colony, they aren't penalized if snap bids etc come up and can be bid by another group. Even if that isn't what she means it's a good idea.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

You could go through recruitment, and if you do receive invitations to preference, go, and THEN decide whether you want to rank or try for ZTA. No harm in getting more information.

As opposed to not letting PNMs drop out? Recruitment is a voluntary process. PNMs can drop out any time they like. I am unsure of what you mean by this.

certainly pnms may withdraw from recruitment whenever they want. i meant that i have witnessed the greek life advisor specifically tell the pnms that after the 3rd round of parties(or the 4th, or whatever), that they may drop out of the formal recruitment process, if they wish to try to join the colony. i guess she meant this information to allow pnms to participate first in formal recruitment, and if, at the specified round they decided that they felt more of a connection with the colonizing sorority, that they would be eligible to participate in the interview/party process of the colonizing sorority, with no repercussions for withdrawing from formal recruitment. honestly, i never questioned what exactly she meant or why she said it, as i was involved as an alumna advisor with formal recruitment.

thinking about it for a little longer, allowing pnms to withdraw from formal recruitment to try for a bid from the colony would keep the bid lists of the established sororities "cleaner"i.e., if patty pnm really hoped to join the abc colony, she could formally withdraw at the appropriate time and not wind up on the bid list of ef sorority. i we got a note from the greek life advisor telling us the names of the pnms who had withdrawn due to their interest in the upcoming colonization, so we all knew not to include those names on our invitation lists.