Multiple formal recruitments per year

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Yes, this is allowed, but I only know of one school that does it (Maryland?). How many women are we talking about, here? You could also do some sort of less-structured recruitment, but allow the groups who are over total to take a quota. Two FR's is a lot of energy and money for chapters to spend.

Violet pretty could confirm, but Maryland (and Cornell) have spring formal with structured informal in the fall. During informal, chapters may bid up to total with no quota being calculated.

[33girl]

With these women who get to school with their semester of credits under their belt...do they typically do fine? Or do they get to "real college" and their grades go in the toilet?

Part of the point of deferring rush is to make sure that freshmen can thrive in a college environment gradewise. However, the other parts are so that they can see the sororities "warts and all" and to see if they can thrive in all the other parts of college....living away from home, etc.

From the way you describe things you have a more cosmopolitan student body than most and I don't think the latter part of the above sentence is a problem. However, if it IS an issue that women get to campus and don't want to look at all the sororities - only have their minds set on one, usually the biggest most popular - then I think you should defer things for everyone until sophomore fall.

There have been precedents on campuses regarding ISP overuse, what is usually done is that the woman is not permitted to pledge the sorority she ISPed for a year. (i.e. you can't ISP and then join when they're trying to get up to quota, total, or formal rush).

Are all the chapters at or near total?

[Titchou]

[QUOTE=33girl;2179501
There have been precedents on campuses regarding ISP overuse, what is usually done is that the woman is not permitted to pledge the sorority she ISPed for a year. (i.e. you can't ISP and then join when they're trying to get up to quota, total, or formal rush).

Are all the chapters at or near total?[/QUOTE]

I would question a CPH that tried this as I would venture it's not allowed by NPC.

[33girl]

This was a CPC in BFE who had a mixed local and national recruitment and could get away with it. This was also a while ago.

Obviously the better thing would have been to lower total so everyone wasn't COBing all the time and this would have been a moot point.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Violet pretty could confirm, but Maryland (and Cornell) have spring formal with structured informal in the fall. During informal, chapters may bid up to total with no quota being calculated.

Two years ago when I was an alum attending initiation for the fall pledge class at Maryland, this was how it worked. Fall was informal recruitment only.