Mississippi Sorority Recruitment 2015

jolene · #1 09-30-2015, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by LIXO

My niece is going through recruitment at Ole Miss right now so any information about what to expect would be appreciated.

Would love to hear how she did/where she ends up.

I'm amazed that UM doesn't hold recruitment right before school starts.

thetalady · #2 10-01-2015, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jolene

I'm amazed that UM doesn't hold recruitment right before school starts.

They did have rush prior to school starting though the 90's. Then the University administration insisted that it be changed. Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there. Seriously. Now rush is held after the last date to drop out of school and get a refund on the semester.

jolene · #3 10-01-2015, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

They did have rush prior to school starting though the 90's. Then the University administration insisted that it be changed. Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there. Seriously. Now rush is held after the last date to drop out of school and get a refund on the semester.

Wow! Can't believe that happened. I think UGA does rush right before school starts. Holy crap. I think if I'd gone to an SEC school, I would have waited the next semester and found a house who was COBing. Another friend of mine who went to UGA dropped out of formal but later met some GPhiBs in class and they invited her out and she joined them and loved it. I've always heard over and over that UGA is mega brutal--at least in the 90s it was.

AnchorAlumna · #4 10-01-2015, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there.

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Originally Posted by jolene

I think if I'd gone to an SEC school, I would have waited the next semester and found a house who was COBing.

Girls who would leave school rather than pledge the "wrong" sorority are NOT the ones who would pledge a house via COB, because the houses they want don't COB. Or if they do, they know who they want and don't just get a list from panhellenic.

SweetTeaParty · #5 10-01-2015, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

They did have rush prior to school starting though the 90's. Then the University administration insisted that it be changed. Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there. Seriously. Now rush is held after the last date to drop out of school and get a refund on the semester.

THIS! Happened ALL the time, pre-internet. Who could know the schools where you'd been accepted or gone through rush (or even recieved bids/pledged)?

At my school (where the Fall term started after Labor Day, and rush was in late October) there was a young lady who was on her 3rd (!) Rush that year to get her dream GLO. She received her bid at our school and transferred her sophomore year back to a large SEC school. But the chapter there refused to affiliate her! So, she was back (immediately) to our school. Didn't miss a day.

All of this came out after she returned - - her chapter was not amused. (And, I can't imagine the cost of doing this! Her parents must've been nuts!)

jolene · #6 10-01-2015, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SweetTeaParty

THIS! Happened ALL the time, pre-internet. Who could know the schools where you'd been accepted or gone through rush (or even recieved bids/pledged)?

At my school (where the Fall term started after Labor Day, and rush was in late October) there was a young lady who was on her 3rd (!) Rush that year to get her dream GLO. She received her bid at our school and transferred her sophomore year back to a large SEC school. But the chapter there refused to affiliate her! So, she was back (immediately) to our school. Didn't miss a day.

All of this came out after she returned - - her chapter was not amused. (And, I can't imagine the cost of doing this! Her parents must've been nuts!)

Wow! I wonder why the SEC school wouldn't let her affiliate. We've had affiliates, but never anyone who left and came back. Did her chapter have to take her in?

SweetTeaParty · #7 10-01-2015, 05:03 PM

Some GLOs do not have to allow affiliations - I know my chapter voted on several affilate applications during my time there. And, if it was a large SEC chapter expecting a large pledge class - - I'm guessing they didn't want a girl they had already passed on previously AND they didn't "pick out" themselves. (Since this was a well documented "end run" around the membership selection strategy, it was probably justified not to affiliate her.)

My own brother joined a national Frat his freshman year at a smaller school, and then transferred to Ole Miss. He told me that as an "Affilitated" member, he could not vote on ANYTHING. He was simply a "social" member. But, that was the way it was organized with them.

BTW, the young woman in the discussion was actually a lovely and kind person and fit in well with the chapter on my campus, sorta leaves you to wonder WHO wanted her to join the SEC chapter . . .

lake · #8 10-02-2015, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SweetTeaParty

THIS! Happened ALL the time, pre-internet. Who could know the schools where you'd been accepted or gone through rush (or even recieved bids/pledged)?

At my school (where the Fall term started after Labor Day, and rush was in late October) there was a young lady who was on her 3rd (!) Rush that year to get her dream GLO. She received her bid at our school and transferred her sophomore year back to a large SEC school. But the chapter there refused to affiliate her! So, she was back (immediately) to our school. Didn't miss a day.
All of this came out after she returned - - her chapter was not amused. (And, I can't imagine the cost of doing this! Her parents must've been nuts!)

This is the best story I've heard yet about that craziness! That young lady must have had psychotic-level determination to reach her goal to put herself through three rushes!! How could she even function at school? The physical, mental and emotional exhaustion would've been a severe detriment starting out the school year, and getting the grades you needed to even initiate!

33girl · #9 10-02-2015, 02:14 PM

My question is, if all this comes out, will you really be afforded the post-graduate social amenities that the "right" sorority gets you? Or will you be Tilly the Transfer until you're in the nursing home?

lake · #10 10-02-2015, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

They did have rush prior to school starting though the 90's. Then the University administration insisted that it be changed. Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there. Seriously. Now rush is held after the last date to drop out of school and get a refund on the semester.

I wondered why recruitment was just taking place now. It seemed really late.

I've mentioned this before on GC, but I love those stories about how women would transfer schools and go thru another recruitment in order to get the group they wanted. That's crazy!

carnation · #11 10-02-2015, 01:08 PM

Those stories were pretty commonplace in Texas. Some of the girls would stay at the new school and others would transfer back and attempt to affiliate. I don't personally know anyone who rushed unsuccessfully at school A, transferred to B and pledged the desired group there, and transferred back to A and successfully affiliated.

honeychile · #12 10-02-2015, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by thetalady

They did have rush prior to school starting though the 90's. Then the University administration insisted that it be changed. Girls used to immediately leave school, if they did not get the rush results that they wanted. They would go to another school where they had been accepted to try rushing there. Seriously. Now rush is held after the last date to drop out of school and get a refund on the semester.

My chapter was used twice like this when I was an active. It was when there wasn't a snowball's chance of a "yankee" getting an SEC bid, if you lived above the Mason-Dixon line! What really burned me was the number of women who would have been committed to the chapter who had been cut so that these special snowflakes could get a bid.

Another phenomena was when a chapter closed (in our case, WVU), and many sisters transferred and wanted to affiliate. For the most part, we accepted them happily.

lake · #13 10-02-2015, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

My chapter was used twice like this when I was an active. It was when there wasn't a snowball's chance of getting an SEC bid, if you lived above the Mason-Dixon line! What really burned me was the number of women who would have been committed to the chapter who had been cut so that these special snowflakes could get a bid.

Another phenomena was when a chapter closed (in our case, WVU), and many sisters transferred and wanted to affiliate. For the most part, we accepted them happily.

But maybe, if they wanted to be a member of that GLO sooooo bad, they end up being really good, involved alums? Do you think that is true? Or do you think it's all about being in a certain GLO on a certain campus?

honeychile · #14 10-02-2015, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by lake

But maybe, if they wanted to be a member of that GLO sooooo bad, they end up being really good, involved alums? Do you think that is true? Or do you think it's all about being in a certain GLO on a certain campus?

I had never thought of the alumnae involvement. That makes me feel much, much better about a few tense times in the ole sorority suite!

And yes, I do think that campus culture has a lot to do with it, too.