2015 Indiana Recruitment

[Katmandu]

RE: Chi Omega invitation numbers.

1st: We don't know how many they invited back. Rumors swirl around during recruitment and most of them are inaccurate.

2nd: If they are a strong recruiting chapter with stellar returns, yes, their invitation list will be small, because almost everyone says, "yes". Chapters with strong returns don't need to invite a lot of PNMs to have a full house and a full pref and a full NM class.

3rd: If that number is correct, its not "harsh", it's reality. It would be less kind to pad their numbers, invite massive numbers of girls who fell in love with the group, get their hopes up because of an invitation and then get dashed in the end. Early cuts allow girls to re-focus and dance with someone else.

ETA: love it 33girl. Whap, whap, whap.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

That's a great way to do name tags! Right before I started school they eliminated the custom name tags the chapters at Iowa did. They did cutesy and VERY involved construction paper name tags for every girl attending every party. It was a huge amount of work. With all the other crap going on can you imagine keeping all that straight before parties? And the girls spending all summer cutting and gluing the name tags together for the several hundred that would have been needed! Oh the horror. And this was before RFM so everyone invited more girls and you never knew how many girls were gonna show up the next day.

I just found my Alpha Gam scrapbook from college and I have all my name tags from all the parties! So fun But yes, tons of work- and my alma mater had a small greek system.

Originally Posted by ItsGreekTooMe

I'd figured that an objective criterion that disqualifies girls from consideration would be disclosed to PNMs, just as the 2.8 is. Silly me.

I'll use a non-recruitment related analogy here. My college academic program was Occupational Therapy. In my program, they accepted 50 students per year and there were typically more than 250 applicants. Although the program had specific GPA requirements (must have a 2.5 overall and at least a 3.0 in some specific courses) and requirements for health care field volunteer hours (at least 60), nobody with a 2.5 and only 60 hours was accepted because it was so competitive. In reality, the lowest GPA accepted was a 3.5.

ETA: I have a rec girl at IU this time around

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Katmandu

RE: Chi Omega invitation numbers.

1st: We don't know how many they invited back. Rumors swirl around during recruitment and most of them are inaccurate.

2nd: If they are a strong recruiting chapter with stellar returns, yes, their invitation list will be small, because almost everyone says, "yes". Chapters with strong returns don't need to invite a lot of PNMs to have a full house and a full pref and a full NM class.

3rd: If that number is correct, its not "harsh", it's reality. It would be less kind to pad their numbers, invite massive numbers of girls who fell in love with the group, get their hopes up because of an invitation and then get dashed in the end. Early cuts allow girls to re-focus and dance with someone else.

YES. To all of this.

Originally Posted by AGDee

I'll use a non-recruitment related analogy here. My college academic program was Occupational Therapy. In my program, they accepted 50 students per year and there were typically more than 250 applicants. Although the program had specific GPA requirements (must have a 2.5 overall and at least a 3.0 in some specific courses) and requirements for health care field volunteer hours (at least 60), nobody with a 2.5 and only 60 hours was accepted because it was so competitive. In reality, the lowest GPA accepted was a 3.5.

Yeah, and the fact that *one* applicant with a 2.6 got into the program after single-handedly curing cancer does not change the fact that YOU need to have a 3.5.

[wsucalsigmakapp]

Originally Posted by Katmandu

RE: Chi Omega invitation numbers.

1st: We don't know how many they invited back. Rumors swirl around during recruitment and most of them are inaccurate.

2nd: If they are a strong recruiting chapter with stellar returns, yes, their invitation list will be small, because almost everyone says, "yes". Chapters with strong returns don't need to invite a lot of PNMs to have a full house and a full pref and a full NM class.

3rd: If that number is correct, its not "harsh", it's reality. It would be less kind to pad their numbers, invite massive numbers of girls who fell in love with the group, get their hopes up because of an invitation and then get dashed in the end. Early cuts allow girls to re-focus and dance with someone else.

ETA: love it 33girl. Whap, whap, whap.

These are all excellent points, and in the long run, every women going through recruitment should strive to be in a chapter that she fits in with the members and that wants her to be a part of that chapter. Who wants to be surrounded by women who were "pushed or forced" to accept you. Regardless of how harsh it sounds, getting cut from a group may be a blessing in disguise! =)