My understanding is that Auburn's Summer Rush is their main rush. Thus all the events. While fall rush is more of a secondary thing to get the pledges that didn't make it to a summer event etc.
Generally speaking, most SEC schools have some sort of a combination of summer rush and fall rush. Some or more structured or formal, while others not.
For an example, you may want to take a look at the Ole Miss IFC
Recruitment Rules (Ole Miss has one of the more competitive IFC rushes) to get a better idea of how Summer Recruitment (Recruitment = Rush), Pre-Recruitment, and Formal Recruitment works for them.
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Originally Posted by HalfWindsor
I'm positive that no fraternity on campus holds any type of parties over the summers for recruitment purposes.
Of course groups go out and try to get 5 or 10 guys they know and want, but nothing large scale.
Should we go against the grain of the system norm and start recruiting over summer on a larger scale? Or would we look desperate?
By the way, this is an SEC- now you probably know which one. The fraternity culture here is just very lazy when it comes to recruiting. Hardcore when we're rushing, but lazy about recruiting. Does that make sense?
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First off, if you feel it isn't broken, they why fix it? However, if you feel that some sort of push needs to be done over the summer (perhaps to be proactive or just to be sure to get quality men), then increase the number of guys you rush over the summer. Go from trying to get 5 to 10 guys to 15 to 25. Again, you do not have to do anything large and/or have massive parties. Just take suggestions provided and scale it to what would work best for your chapter, the event, and would best fit with your campus culture. That way, you don't look like you are being desperate.
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