Alabama Recruitment

[Titchou]

Perhaps HartofSec can shed light on this since she has been so deeply involved over the years in her group's recruitment at Alabama. Surely she has connections there still who can give her the skinny....so to speak....

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Perhaps HartofSec can shed light on this since she has been so deeply involved over the years in her group's recruitment at Alabama. Surely she has connections there still who can give her the skinny....so to speak....

I don't recall ever making any grandiose claims about my involvement or inside Panhellenic connections, so I can't help you there.

Things seem to be summer pre-recruitment business as usual in my group. As to how generic recommendations will be considered once all the recruitment app info is released to chapters, I couldn't say even if I knew, as this would be treading into membership selection.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by als463

Simply saying that you think Patty PNM is a great addition to Greek Life at Competitive Rush University when you were never Greek and went to a commuter school with two sororities, does not give me faith that you are aware of what being Greek at a major SEC school entails. I think that this statement from the University of Alabama does give false hope. Whose idea was this?

It doesn't seem as if this "academic" (but not really) recommendation is intended to make any mention of a PNM's fitness for Greek life at Bama. It is depicted as "generic."

IMO, something that diminishes the power (assuming it had any) of such a recommendation is that it is in the hands of the PNM to upload. Surely no school official would write a less-than-glowing recommendation for a student that the student will see (like with recs to some post-graduate professional programs -- when applicants waive their right to read their recommendations, these recs are considered more favorably).

I don't know who proposed this idea, or what (if any) administrative influence was potentially in play.

[carnation]

Picturing what kind of fake letters would be uploaded by Susie Slut and Dora Dumb Butt--

[AZ-AlphaXi]

^^^ LOL .. I hadn't even caught that wrinkle ... this has now moved into train wreck territory.

[als463]

Originally Posted by carnation

Picturing what kind of fake letters would be uploaded by Susie Slut and Dora Dumb Butt--

Susie Slut is my new favorite term. Ha! Hartofsec makes a good point that most people will write favorable recommendations. My point was that saying someone is a good student, as can usually be noted by looking at transcripts and GPAs, is not nearly as helpful as an alumna saying that the young woman was able to balance school and social activities. I'd rather a Greek of another organization tell me that Patty PNM can multitask and would be fit for sorority membership over someone who is not Greek and knows very little about sorority membership on any level. This does seem like it could be confusing to PNMs who may come from areas where Greek life isn't as big. It could really stunt a PNM during recruitment--or so, I would think.

[AGDCanada11]

Bumping this one!

[Benzgirl]

bump

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

Good one Jen....and it is the end times for sure!

lol, I said the same thing when I heard about the demise of skit day!

[JenS]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

26 first-round parties over 2 days (PNMs go to 16)
20 second-round parties over 2 days (PNMs go to max of 12 I think)
15 third-round parties over 2 days (PNMs go to max of 8 I think)
7 pref parties over 1 day (PNMs go to max of 3)

Although UA Panhellenic could adjust that and add a few more parties.

Last year a total of just under 2300 signed up.

Not sure, but I think there are more than 20 in a Rho Chi group. Each group has more than 1 Rho Chi.

Do you know when to expect the heaviest cuts usually?

[AnchorAlumna]

Third round (from 12 to 8 parties) and fourth round (8 to 3)

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by JenS

Do you know when to expect the heaviest cuts usually?

Some recruitment stats through 2014:

[KSUViolet06]

The number that stands out the MOST to me is that by and large, PNMs who stay in recruitment are matched to their first choice group (82%) and only 17 PNMs don't get bids. But they had the highest number of QAs in 11 years. I wonder how many of these QAs were to 1st choice group/2nd/etc. and how they shake out to each chapter.

[JenS]

Thank you so much...just what I needed to see.

[Hartofsec]

Some other U of A stats from Fall 2014 recruitment: