Bama Sorority Recruitment 2010

[bamamom14]

I agree with everything bama.mom said. My daughter just went through Rush at Bama. (She pledged KD!) She had at least one rec to every chapter - most of them she had two. We started getting those lined up in April & sent all the rec packets out in May/early June. We asked friends, family & anyone we knew that had been in a sorority to write a rec for her. All of them said yes & some even helped us get a rec for a sorority we didn't have a rec for. Have your daughter visit any friends she has at Bama now -during her Senior year of HS. My daughter visited 2 different friends in the fall & spring. She met girls in her friends' sorority and also in several other sororities. I would also encourage you to attend Greek Preview Wknd in the spring. There will be teas, parties, etc for future PNMs during that weekend. My daughter was invited to many of those as well - again a result of girls having met her when she visited her friends. When the girls she had met on her previous visits saw her during Rush - they already knew who she was. That's gotta help when the Houses are seeing possibly 1600 girls in a day. In a nutshell - she needs to get her name & her face out there - before Fall Rush even begins!

[amanda6035]

Okay - I seriously don't get this. According to the NPC results thread, quota was 83+5. How is it that SO MANY chapters got quota plus to the point that the plus was 20 or more? and not just one chapter was like that - there are many. Um....RFM?

I thought I finally understood how this worked, but now I'm baffled.

[mikewozowski]

me too!

what is RFM?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Okay - I seriously don't get this. According to the NPC results thread, quota was 83+5. How is it that SO MANY chapters got quota plus to the point that the plus was 20 or more? and not just one chapter was like that - there are many. Um....RFM?

I thought I finally understood how this worked, but now I'm baffled.

Originally Posted by mikewozowski

me too!

what is RFM?

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...hlight=Release

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...uota+additions



I think the high numbers of QAs means that UA is working to place as many PNMs who maximize their options. Remember, everyone who does is eligible to be matched as a QA.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I think the high numbers of QAs means that UA is working to place as many PNMs who maximize their options. Remember, everyone who does is eligible to be matched as a QA.

I guess I don't understand why there are still so many that "have" to be placed because they maximized their options IF RFM is working as it should. If there are that many PNMs being invited back to multiple preference parties and multiple chapters hit quota before all of them are placed, then it sounds like those chapters invited too many PNMs to preference....

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by bamamom14

Have your daughter visit any friends she has at Bama now -during her Senior year of HS. My daughter visited 2 different friends in the fall & spring. She met girls in her friends' sorority and also in several other sororities. I would also encourage you to attend Greek Preview Wknd in the spring. There will be teas, parties, etc for future PNMs during that weekend. My daughter was invited to many of those as well - again a result of girls having met her when she visited her friends.

All true, but you have to be INVITED to visit the houses and you have to be INVITED to these teas and parties during the preview weekend.
Not everybody gets invited.
Frankly, I wouldn't have let my daughter spend a weekend...a day, maybe, but no overnight visits.
Hey...I may be old, but I was a student, too, once. And I know what goes on. Not that your or my student ever did anything naughty.

[AnchorAlumna]

Bama's rush is biggest in the nation (so far, anyway): http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/08/17/ua-h...ush-in-nation/