Sorority Recruitment Ideas for new sorority

Ky2786 · #1 11-15-2006, 01:22 AM

ok thank you im sorry if you were upset because i didn't pose my questions the way they should have been.

AlexMack · #2 11-15-2006, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ky2786

ok thank you im sorry if you were upset because i didn't pose my questions the way they should have been.

No one was upset-you decided to get defensive. The thing is, these questions are asked over and over again and you might have done better to search through threads and forming your questions on some sort of solid basis. No one here knows anything about your school, your sorority, anything like that.

Ky2786 · #3 11-15-2006, 04:30 AM

i seriously...did not want this to be a huge debate...i apologized for not wording the questions correctly, and reposted the question. i didn't get defensive at all i just didn't understand how i was supposed to ask something i didn't know. i did search through the threads and found nothing that would be useful for my size school...it's small. I could have noted that in the question now that i read back and realize that.

Ky2786 · #4 11-15-2006, 04:42 AM

the thing about our sorority is we dont have houses, its 16 girls including myself trying to get this up and running smoothly which will take a while. we want to rush the week or possibly the week after we come back for the spring semester. we have a small school compared to other schools, also very very diverse population. im really just trying to find ideas that will benefit the interests of the population. we are not affiliated with any national sorority we are our own, local one. this may sound not so fun to larger sororities im not really sure, but for one thing during rush week we were going to give PNM's a 10 or 15 question quiz on the founding sisters, we don't really know specifics yet but that's something we have been thinking about. we plan on making posters for the school, banners, ordering rush shirts. ( we already have our initial shirts)

i also had a question about Rho Chi counseler? i was told that rho chi is a sorority...but the way i've seen it used on this site leads me to believe that it's used in all sororities as what they refer to the rush officer as? am i correct? Being the Rush officer, i don't know if i should or should not have that title of rho chi, or if there is other names for it or not.

#5 11-15-2006, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Ky2786

i also had a question about Rho Chi counseler? i was told that rho chi is a sorority...but the way i've seen it used on this site leads me to believe that it's used in all sororities as what they refer to the rush officer as? am i correct? Being the Rush officer, i don't know if i should or should not have that title of rho chi, or if there is other names for it or not.

Recruitment Chairs are not the same as Recruitment Counselors (aka Rho Chi, Rho Gamma, Pi Chi, etc.). Recruitment Chairs plan the events for their sorority. Recruitment Counselors are members of NPC sororities who disaffiliate from her sorority for the duration of Formal Recruitment. She will assist the PNMs during the process of Recruitment, answering questions and running a Recruitment Group. They cannot reveal their sorority, so they remain neutral and don't influence their PNMs.

A lot of the terminology you will see here in this forum are NPC based, and if you want to brush up on some Greek terms, here's a neat list.

Again, there's a lot of good ideas (over 6 years worth) on GreekChat that'll help you with rush ideas. Please take the time to read the threads as this will probably be the best way for you to get help for your new sorority.

seussN10 · #6 11-15-2006, 06:55 AM

So here are some idea about holding rush.

First, make sure you know how you are going to do your rush. Is it just going to be a week of informal activites or will it be some informal activities and then an interview/application process. I've seen both processes being used. I would not ask new girls questions about the founding members but instead focus on getting girls interested in your sorority and finding out about who they are.

For the informal events:
-Make sure they are close to population of people that you are interested in. If your trying to get people who live in dorms, make sure the events are convient to them.
-Schedule them when people can come. Don't have evening events if people have night classes. Class is more important and they wont come to your events.
-Advertise like crazy. Put up posters and wear letters on campus. Tell people that you know about your orgnization.
-some fun events, eating (almost anything as long as free people will come out) chocolate or pie or making sundays, doing some sort of small service project, game night, bowling, things of that nature. Make sure the events that you plan have.

For the interview part:
-have standard questions (ask about them, not what they know about you. you have a new member period to tell them about your sorrority)
-let people know what they need to wear to the event
-keep it short (15 to 30 min)

Also if your looking for more ideas, search for COR (continious open recruitment) and informal recruitment.

Ky2786 · #7 11-15-2006, 03:17 PM

that was extremely helpful thank you so much...i will look back for more rush ideas, this is all very confusing right now but im hoping it comes into perspective soon enough. the hard part about it is, we dont have sorority houses it's only us 16 girls so inviting them to come to the house isn't really something that can happen. but i'll figure something out though.