Auburn University Recruitment - Fall 2010

AuburnDad · #1 08-10-2010, 10:38 PM

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 · #2 08-10-2010, 10:46 PM

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 · #3 08-10-2010, 10:59 PM

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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 · #4 08-10-2010, 11:19 PM

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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.

mittens · #5 08-11-2010, 12:49 AM

So glad Emma and Cassie are having a great time!!! Good luck to both of them! I cannot wait to see this outcome!

carnation · #6 08-11-2010, 06:59 AM

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

You must have had that same Iraqi TA that I had.

MerryGPhiB · #7 08-11-2010, 11:25 AM

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You must have had that same Iraqi TA that I had.

I actually love the statistics part of recruitment, I know it may sound a bit sick but I do my own math each year (and I use the previous two years stats) with the two chapters I work with and so far I've been either right on or within one of the correct quota # for the past three years. if you love math its fun-- like I said, I love statistics ( I'm odd, I know)

AZ-AlphaXi · #8 08-11-2010, 12:08 PM

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I actually love the statistics part of recruitment, I know it may sound a bit sick but I do my own math each year (and I use the previous two years stats) with the two chapters I work with and so far I've been either right on or within one of the correct quota # for the past three years. if you love math its fun-- like I said, I love statistics ( I'm odd, I know)

you're not the only one ... love doing the math of recruitment

AuburnDad · #9 08-11-2010, 05:10 PM

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You must have had that same Iraqi TA that I had.

All I know is that I couldn't understand a word he was saying. I just scribbled down what he was writing on the board and hoped it would make some sense later.

pam713 · #10 08-10-2010, 11:01 PM

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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 · #11 08-10-2010, 11:15 PM

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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 · #12 08-11-2010, 01:02 AM

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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.

gardensyl · #13 08-11-2010, 01:50 AM

So glad to hear that Emma, Cassie and Suzie are having a good time. And don't worry about rambling, we all love these recruitment stories.
Just a quick aside to Cassie's Mom, my daughter had a similar roommate experience her freshman year-2008. She thought she would just stick it out but problems continued to escalate from day one until about two months into the year, she returned to her room in the middle of the day and found her roommate and bf in her bed, if you can believe it. Needless to say we moved into another room right away. I would say to move sooner rather than later. We found the staff at Auburn hosing to be very caring and helpful.
Happy recruitment to all and War Eagle!