Torn Between Studying Abroad and Leading Recruitment.

[pfg2010]

Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD

Study abroad.

One of the big factors in my decision not to study abroad was my chapter and it was our first formal recruitment. I went to training the previous summer and knew the system from helping out with other chapters in our area, so I felt I couldn't leave.

Recruitment comes around, I get mono. I'm sent home and almost hospitalized the week of recruitment. Guess what? Recruitment went on without me and the chapter did fine.

Not studying abroad is one of the things I regret.

Train members in your chapter, assist as much as you can before you leave, and then go abroad and enjoy.

While I appreciate your advice, I think it's important to realize how different IFC and PHC recruitment is. With fraternities, the recruitment effort really is led by the person in charge of recruitment and his committee during the summer, while from what I gather about sorority recruitment it is a MUCH more colloborative effort from everyone in the sorority pitching in and recruiting during the rounds. At my school we really don't have a formal fraternity recruitment and practically all the recruiting for guys is done in the summer. If you aren't well organized, prepared, and effortful during the summer you won't pull in a good pledge class. That's why it's so important to have an outstanding individual leading our rush, because he is the one making calls, delegating others to make calls, planning events, and attending to hundreds of guys going through recruitment. If you have one slacker leading your rush, I don't think I can say, "Recruitment went on without me and the chapter did fine."