JessSigKap's Retro UMD Recruitment

[CZAXOTerp]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

It might be a wonderful recruitment tool to ask brand new members what there impressions of recruitment were right after recruitment. Maybe not even let the actives see the results, but alums could compile them, so that the following year, you could honestly know what worked and what didn't and what aspects to play up and what to play down.

I think we did something like this- we had a post-rush survey that was anon/confidential, where we asked the NM what they thought of our parties, how we compared to other chapters parties and if they felt comfortable for them to name those chapters, what they did at parties that the NM's liked etc.

Sometimes it's good to know what your competition is doing...

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

I think we did something like this- we had a post-rush survey that was anon/confidential, where we asked the NM what they thought of our parties, how we compared to other chapters parties and if they felt comfortable for them to name those chapters, what they did at parties that the NM's liked etc.

Sometimes it's good to know what your competition is doing...

Exactly.

[CZAXOTerp]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

Exactly.

Also at a campus w/ more than a dozen chapters it was also always good to learn who your competition was...

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Also at a campus w/ more than a dozen chapters it was also always good to learn who your competition was...

But I think you also know who your competition is, just ask yourself, which chapters did you like during recruitment? I know my chapter could easily answer this question.

[CZAXOTerp]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

But I think you also know who your competition is, just ask yourself, which chapters did you like during recruitment? I know my chapter could easily answer this question.

I know with my chapter it wasn't that easy- we had girls preffing a variety of chapters. At the time my chapter was diverse and had almost a 50/50 split in terms of religion, it was cool, something we were proud of and would speak about in rush- as opposed to "other" chapters that would ask thinly veiled questions.
My pledge sister & one of my best friends to this day went thru rush together (she lived across the hall from me freshman yr) and our chapter seemed to be the only chapter we had in common through out rush.

[irishpipes]

As far as the chapter already knowing who they are competing with based on who they liked during rush - the chapter might have difficulty being honest - especially if you are in a middle or lower-tier chapter. I mean, there are the chapters that you wish you were competing with - the top tier on whatever campus, and then there are the ones that you are really competing with for the same PNMs. I guess that is why polling the new members is a good idea. Did that make any sense?

[violetpretty]

Well you are competing with any top tier chapters that get girls that your chapter wanted, the only difference is that you come out on the losing side rather than the winning side in that situation.

[susan314]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Also at a campus w/ more than a dozen chapters it was also always good to learn who your competition was...

Did anyone else's chapter track who you tended to cross preference with? (Probably only an issue on campuses with a lot of chapters - we had 16 chapters total in my day, but for the most part primarily cross-preferenced with about 7 of them.) The University gave us a bid list showing where every PNM ended up going - the statistic wasn't too hard to compile, by looking at what chapters girls you preffed ended up in, finding out from the pledges where else they preffed besides us, etc.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by susan314

Did anyone else's chapter track who you tended to cross preference with? (Probably only an issue on campuses with a lot of chapters - we had 16 chapters total in my day, but for the most part primarily cross-preferenced with about 7 of them.) The University gave us a bid list showing where every PNM ended up going - the statistic wasn't too hard to compile, by looking at what chapters girls you preffed ended up in, finding out from the pledges where else they preffed besides us, etc.

I think we give our new members a survey asking who they preffed. At least we did when I pledged in Spring 2004.

[ForeverRoses]

We unofficially tracked this- and it was amazing. I remember that out of the 50 women in my pledge class, 40 of them had preffed the same other chapter.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

We unofficially tracked this- and it was amazing. I remember that out of the 50 women in my pledge class, 40 of them had preffed the same other chapter.

Wow! That was our biggest problem - our pledges preffed almost every other house. We said that was because we had "broad appeal".

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by susan314

Did anyone else's chapter track who you tended to cross preference with?

We always did this. Like 90% of the time it was the same 2 chapters (PNMs attend 3 prefs at my school).