UGA Recruitment

[33girl]

Originally Posted by dovelovesk

That is what my niece did, she didn't feel comfortable in the houses where she went to pref, and then dropped. I tried to tell her that she would be be happy in any of the houses. That with 200 plus members, you find your group within the big group. But she liked 2 or 3 houses that dropped her after round 2 and she was so disappointed at that I don't think it mattered after that.
Of course I think she made a mistake; but it is her life.
Hopefully she will go thru again next year. .. I hope that she will!

The other thing that kills me is yes, that person she would connect with in those chapters is there, but just through sheer luck of the draw, she wasn't paired with them.

[pinapple]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The other thing that kills me is yes, that person she would connect with in those chapters is there, but just through sheer luck of the draw, she wasn't paired with them.

Then the matching crew did not do a very good job

[33girl]

Originally Posted by pinapple

Then the matching crew did not do a very good job

I've said before that while I understand the concept of matching sister who played lacrosse with PNM who played lacrosse, I don't think it's infallible. PNM may be sick as crap of lacrosse and never wants to play it again.

Plus some women are trying to reinvent themselves in college and the last thing they want is to talk to the popular girl who unknowingly gave them an inferiority complex from 5th grade on.

It usually does work, but humans would not be humans if it was 100% perfect.

[IHeartUGA]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I've said before that while I understand the concept of matching sister who played lacrosse with PNM who played lacrosse, I don't think it's infallible. PNM may be sick as crap of lacrosse and never wants to play it again.

Plus some women are trying to reinvent themselves in college and the last thing they want is to talk to the popular girl who unknowingly gave them an inferiority complex from 5th grade on.

It usually does work, but humans would not be humans if it was 100% perfect.

Houses at UGA don't usually match PNMs with Sisters until later rounds, sometimes not until Prefs. The PNMs file in the foyers and sisters literally go find someone to snatch up.

[gphib_95]

According to their Instagram page, Gamma Phi got 75!

[DaffyKD]

Back in ancient times when I went through "rush" we did not match sisters with "rushees" until preference night. It was always a random selection depending on where you were standing when Suzi Snowflake walked through the door. At that time, "rush numbers" were very low on our campus compared to today. If we had 200 go through that was a lot!

DaffyKD

[aualum]

Originally Posted by pinapple

Then the matching crew did not do a very good job

I would have thought the same thing but my daughter explained before recruitment that it is imperative that these girls meet other people that can also vouch for them. It does help though if the person they know speaks up with who to pair them with. My daughter is at another SEC school and her sorority does pair from day 1.

[Xidelt]

UGA panhellenic posted on Facebook that 1250 girls received bids.

[compassrose]

1590 registered so that means 78% received bids. I wonder how that compares to other SEC schools.

Of course, you can't assume that 22% did not receive bids because that number includes the girls who dropped out because they didn't like their invites as well as the girls who did not get any invites.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by compassrose

1590 registered so that means 78% received bids. I wonder how that compares to other SEC schools.

Of course, you can't assume that 22% did not receive bids because that number includes the girls who dropped out because they didn't like their invites as well as the girls who did not get any invites.

I bet the vast majority of the ones who didn't get bids dropped out. I'd really love to see data about the number of women actually released by all chapters. Does UGA usually tell us?

[trtlgrl]

UA and AU were both 90%. I can't remember the exact decimal places but Auburn was less than .5% more I believe is what I read. So they were MUCH higher than UGA.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by IHeartUGA

Houses at UGA don't usually match PNMs with Sisters until later rounds, sometimes not until Prefs. The PNMs file in the foyers and sisters literally go find someone to snatch up.

Yeah, when first rounds are 25 minutes, and you have 50 PNM's coming through (I don't know exact numbers at UGA, but that's how my alma mater was), you don't have the time to match in the early rounds.

[als463]

All three of my girls went Greek at UGA! One went Alpha Chi Omega, another went Chi Omega, and the last girl went Alpha Omicron Pi! I'm so glad they all had such a positive experience!

[CMDelta]

The 78% seems a bit low but they need to exclude those who chose to drop who still had invites. I remember a couple years ago, Ole Miss had 92%. Not sure what it was last year. So far we've had 100% placement of our hometown PNM's at OU, Auburn, Alabama and UGA but it was only a total of 17 girls since those are all OOS for us. However, I think our local Panhellenic does a good job of preparing them! I know the OU and UGA girls all got what they wanted and had great weeks.

[dovelovesk]

Does anyone know if they raised total? and are the chapters COBing?