Auburn University Recruitment - Fall 2010

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by MerryGPhiB

Serious Recruitment addiction = SRA..... a new disease, symptoms include , but are not limited to; details of the day, returns, lists, quota, alternative names for chapters, topics , references, ..... please continue to add to any additional symptons you have experienced!

Thinking throughout the day of random people by code name that you will never meet who live in states half a country away at universities you've never visited...

and wondering how their parties went that day.

[perfectinpurple]

Loving the updates!

And good luck to all the ladies for the rest of recruitment!

[AuburnDad]

Just finished talking to "Emma".

One of the first things she said was "This is going to be so hard!" in reference to prioritizing her choices tomorrow after the second round. She feels like her brain is on "overload" with names and faces and information she has learned about the various groups over the last few days.

Using the 1-10 rating system has helped, but she still has rated the groups fairly close together.

She spent a lot of time going over the philanthropy of each group, and discussing which group's philanthropy she liked the most, and which ones she didn't feel as attracted to, so it is apparent that this will be important to her in making her choices.

Her Pi Chi group seemed to fare pretty well as far as cuts go, but she did hear stories of heavy cuts in some of the other Pi Chi groups.

She's been drinking a lot of water thoughout the week to combat the heat. When her Pi Chi group went to dinner and the waitress asked her for her drink order, all she could think of was "Anything but water!".

Each girl in the Pi Chi group has their own schedule so each girl has to make sure to attend her parties in a punctual fashion. Emma heard a story about one PNM in another group who had a break and went back to her dorm to take a nap, and ended up missing one of her parties. Apparently, this results in an automatic cut.

Today she liked the Blue Jays, Angels, Cubs, and Dodgers the most. She will visit the Diamondbacks and some of her more favorite groups tomorrow.

She is very tired and will head to bed early tonight, which is very unusual for such a night owl.

[AuburnDad]

One more thing...Emma said that the PNM's will only be allowed to attend 6 parties for Skit Day. Can anyone confirm? Also, at Auburn, which round is quota based on?

[MerryGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AuburnDad

One more thing...Emma said that the PNM's will only be allowed to attend 6 parties for Skit Day. Can anyone confirm? Also, at Auburn, which round is quota based on?

AuburnDad - I'm not sure about the 6 houses, but what I can tell you about how quota is set--- there will be an initial establishment of quota range and it can change based upon how many women drop before preference with the goal being to match as many women as possible. It the old days, it was determined by how many PNMs ( then known as rushees) were remaining in recruitment just before preference. With the new RFM ( Recruitment Figure methodology) the goal is to match as many women as possible and therefore may change slightly. So, on thurs / Friday we may hear if there is a range. Final quota is determined by the RFM specialist who is an NPC representative.

I will tell you it works well for all chapters. It's been a great addition to the recruitment process.

[AuburnDad]

Originally Posted by MerryGPhiB

With the new RFM ( Recruitment Figure methodology) the goal is to match as many women as possible and therefore may change slightly. So, on thurs / Friday we may hear if there is a range. Final quota is determined by the RFM specialist who is an NPC representative.

I will tell you it works well for all chapters. It's been a great addition to the recruitment process.

That RFM is pretty amazing stuff. Hopefully that specialist did better in Calculus than I did.

[pam713]

Originally Posted by AuburnDad

One more thing...Emma said that the PNM's will only be allowed to attend 6 parties for Skit Day. Can anyone confirm? Also, at Auburn, which round is quota based on?

Last year the girls were able to attend a maximum of seven parties for skit round. I think it's the same for this year. Also, last year the heaviest cuts seem to happen after philanthropy round. It sounds like your daughter is having a great, open-minded recruitment, though.

[AuburnDad]

Originally Posted by pam713

Last year the girls were able to attend a maximum of seven parties for skit round. I think it's the same for this year. Also, last year the heaviest cuts seem to happen after philanthropy round. It sounds like your daughter is having a great, open-minded recruitment, though.

Yeah, just looked it up on the Panhellenic website. Looks like it's seven again this year.

[aumom2010]

Originally Posted by pam713

Last year the girls were able to attend a maximum of seven parties for skit round. I think it's the same for this year. Also, last year the heaviest cuts seem to happen after philanthropy round. It sounds like your daughter is having a great, open-minded recruitment, though.

I have a friend who is a very involved alumni at AU and whose daughter went through rush last year. She confirms that hard cuts come after this round. She said that there will be much crying on the morning of the cuts.

[gee_ess]

Just stumbled on this thread and am so glad I found it! I am obsessed with all things rush, so this parental realtime update is wonderful!

Wishing Cassie, Emma and Suzie good luck!

Go Cards!

[KSUViolet06]

An important thing to remember with invites is that no matter how many you get (or how few) you can only get one bid

[AuburnDad]

Just talked to Emma.

She has competed today's parties and has already gone to the computer lab to turn in her preferences.

She still feels pretty good about each of the groups that she liked before.

Her favorites so far are, not in any particular order:

Reds
Diamondbacks
Pirates
Blue Jays
Rays
Angels
Dodgers

She would also probably be fine with at least three of the other remaining groups from this round.

She understands that some of the heaviest cuts will come after this round, but is hoping for the best. Until tomorrow morning, she will take advantage of the time off to do some important things like shop for textbooks, work on her room, etc.

I hope to have more tonight.

[MerryGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AuburnDad

Just talked to Emma.

She has competed today's parties and has already gone to the computer lab to turn in her preferences.

She still feels pretty good about each of the groups that she liked before.

Her favorites so far are, not in any particular order:

Reds
Diamondbacks
Pirates
Blue Jays
Rays
Angels
Dodgers

She would also probably be fine with at least three of the other remaining groups from this round.

She understands that some of the heaviest cuts will come after this round, but is hoping for the best. Until tomorrow morning, she will take advantage of the time off to do some important things like shop for textbooks, work on her room, etc.

I hope to have more tonight.

I will keep my fingers crossed for Emma and Cassie, I spoke to Suzie earlier today and she was headed back to get some sleep. She is nervous about tomorrow but hopes some of her favorites are there.

Since auburndad did baseball- I think I'll do football teams for Suzie,

Her teams as of Philanthropy Day were;

49ers
NO Saints
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Carolina Panthers
Cleveland browns
Seattle Seahawks
Chicago Bears
Denver Broncos
San Diego Chargers
Oakland Raiders
St Louis Rams

Her Favorites were;
49ers
Cardinals
Falcons
Saints
Panthers

while she like many others , she felt these 5 matched her personality and goals the best. ** Please note-- colors, location etc of teams were randomly chosen***

Keeping everyone is my thoughts as tomorrow shall be here soon

[AuburnDad]

Originally Posted by MerryGPhiB

Since auburndad did baseball- I think I'll do football teams for Suzie,

Her teams as of Philanthropy Day were;

49ers
NO Saints
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Carolina Panthers
Cleveland browns
Seattle Seahawks
Chicago Bears
Denver Broncos
San Diego Chargers
Oakland Raiders
St Louis Rams

Her Favorites were;
49ers
Cardinals
Falcons
Saints
Panthers

while she like many others , she felt these 5 matched her personality and goals the best. ** Please note-- colors, location etc of teams were randomly chosen***

Keeping everyone is my thoughts as tomorrow shall be here soon

I guess I'll root for the 49ers since I used to enjoy the 49er teams of the 80's.

[MerryGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AuburnDad

I guess I'll root for the 49ers since I used to enjoy the 49er teams of the 80's.

Yeah AuburnDad.. I'm a huge 49er football fan, loved seeing Jerry Rice being inducted into the Hall of Fame this past weekend. He is as nice as he is amazing!