University of Alabama Recruitment 2007

[violetpretty]

We do the first round like this at Maryland. The first round takes place over 2 days, and PNMs see 7 chapters each day. Seven chapters rent rooms in the Union the first day, and the other seven rent the rooms the second day. The PNMs are broken into 3 "shifts" for round 1, approximately 8-12, 12-4, and 4-8. Each chapter hosts 21 parties, 7 for each shift. Since only a fixed number of actives are allowed to be in the room, this system allows chapters to switch actives in and out so no one (except the President, VP Recruitment, and appropriate advisors) has to be there for 12 hours. (Or a chapter can choose to keep the same 30 or so pretty girls there all day)

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

We do the first round like this at Maryland. The first round takes place over 2 days, and PNMs see 7 chapters each day. Seven chapters rent rooms in the Union the first day, and the other seven rent the rooms the second day. The PNMs are broken into 3 "shifts" for round 1, approximately 8-12, 12-4, and 4-8. Each chapter hosts 21 parties, 7 for each shift. Since only a fixed number of actives are allowed to be in the room, this system allows chapters to switch actives in and out so no one (except the President, VP Recruitment, and appropriate advisors) has to be there for 12 hours. (Or a chapter can choose to keep the same 30 or so pretty girls there all day)

Maybe I'm missing something but UMD has sorority houses, why are they renting rooms in the Union for rush?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi

Maybe I'm missing something but UMD has sorority houses, why are they renting rooms in the Union for rush?

We had our first round in the Union at my university - it's cheaper for PHC (no renting buses), and quicker, since you're all in the same building...plus it puts everyone on an even playing field for the first round (which actually hurt our chapter more than helped, because we had one of the bigger, more beautiful houses on campus, but a smaller chapter.

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We had our first round in the Union at my university - it's cheaper for PHC (no renting buses), and quicker, since you're all in the same building...plus it puts everyone on an even playing field for the first round (which actually hurt our chapter more than helped, because we had one of the bigger, more beautiful houses on campus, but a smaller chapter.

Gotcha, thanks!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We had our first round in the Union at my university.

Same here. The first two rounds (Go greek & philanthropy day) at my school were held in our Student Center. PNMs didn't visit the chapter houses until round 3, which was House Tours/Video night.

[UGAalum94]

And it was 78% of those who attended first round, rather than 78% of those who completed recruitment.

If only 1.5% were released completely, to some degree it means that 98.5% of PNM might have matched but 20% took themselves out of the game.