Ole Miss Rush/Recruitment~2007

[OleMissGlitter]

There are 870 as of today, September 10, 2007. However, there still might be some processing if they signed up late on Friday afternoon. Since Ole Miss uses ICS Recruiter they have to be approved and make sure their information is correct before it appears on the ICS program.

[SECMom]

Is this less than last year? I remember thinking that there were 900 or so...

[Titchou]

Lord, I hope so! Last year we had 92 in our new member class there! 300 in the chapter. Way too many women!

[Tennissusan]

Originally Posted by SECMom

Do we know yet how many girls are signed up for rush at Ole Miss? Has the deadline past? Just curious.

I was in Oxford this past weekend for the football game and the word in "The Grove" was around 1000+ have registered for recruitment! This year Greek Life started a GPA requirement to register online for recruitment therefore a lot of girls could not register. With only 9 sorority houses I cannot imagine how hard those chapters have been working going through all the resumes and recs! How to you get to know
1000 rushees...that's a major job! Good luck to all the PNM's...all the chapters at Ole Miss are strong.

[FSUZeta]

how are all the members accomodated for chapter meetings?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Lord, I hope so! Last year we had 92 in our new member class there! 300 in the chapter. Way too many women!

Have they ever talked about putting a membership cap on the groups?

[KSUViolet06]

If there really were 1,000 PNMs and all of them stayed in recruitment until the end, quota would be something like 110. Wow.

Going by OleMissGlitter's numbers, it would be more like 96 or so, which seems pretty consistent with previous years.


Does anyone know what total is at ole Miss now?

[OleMissGlitter]

I am advisor for AOII and I can tell you that only 870 have registered, no where near 1000.

Here are the stats from the past few years:

2006
888 registered

2005
843 registered

2004
813 registered

2003
901 registered

2002
769 registered

2001
735 registered

2000
671 registered

You can see that in 2003 that was the most we have had so far....I figure quota will be in the high 80s but it could go higher if there are some "stragglers" who are still being processed at Greek Life. As enrollment increases at Ole Miss so does the number of PNMs! It's a good thing but the houses are already busting at the seams and all of the houses are adding on to accommodate their large numbers!


ETA: I believe total is 234 or 235.....there are also at least 2 houses with over 300 members....so the chapters are all very large compared to other universities...

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

ETA: I believe total is 234 or 235.....there are also at least 2 houses with over 300 members....so the chapters are all very large compared to other universities...

Seriously. If you add up all 6 NPC sororities on my campus, you get the size of ONE chapter at Ole Miss. Those numbers are amazing.

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

how are all the members accomodated for chapter meetings?

Well that was a problem for a few houses and they have all added on or they are in the process. AOII just did a 1.5 million addition with a new chapter room and addition to our dining room. Theta is doing their addition this summer 2008. Phi Mu is not in their house right now because they are redoing the entire house and adding on as well. Pi Phi did their addition last summer. Tri Delta, KD, Kappa, Chi Omega, and DG did their additions a few years back.

I think at Chi Omega is where they have meals in shifts....

It's not easy having chapter with such larger numbers but I think all of the houses are just learning to deal with the growing pains. There is rumor about adding one more sorority by like 2010 but officially nothing has been done. I think it's doable but there is no land for a house, and of course at Ole Miss without a house a sorority might not survive.

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Seriously. If you add up all 6 NPC sororities on my campus, you get the size of ONE chapter at Ole Miss. Those numbers are amazing.

Try being an adviser....it can be very hard to learn everyone's name and face...usually by the end of the semester I know who they are....but it's not easy...I thought my pledge class in 1996 was big with 52 and that was quota back then! Gosh how things have changed in 11 years!

[KSUViolet06]

I would imagine you'd need to he highly orgaanized just to keep up with the basic info on each girl (name, major, hometown, etc).

Then keeping track of things like dues, fines, etc are probably a nightmare. Taking attendance at your chapter meetings probably takes forever.

[FSUZeta]

not to mention, anyone speaking would need to use a mike!

[OleMissGlitter]

We have done power point slides for big important chapter meetings. It helps to keep their attention and so they don't miss any points!

Yes we use Omega Financial to keep up with billing!

I wonder if anyone uses a microphone during chapter...we have a few, might be a good idea!

[Tennissusan]

Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter

Try being an adviser....it can be very hard to learn everyone's name and face...usually by the end of the semester I know who they are....but it's not easy...I thought my pledge class in 1996 was big with 52 and that was quota back then! Gosh how things have changed in 11 years!

With so much interest in Greek Life at Ole Miss why haven't new houses been added? Do you know why ADPi left the campus? It seems like they could easily fill two more
houses. I cannot begin to imagine how you handle being an advisor to that many girls! The AOPi's had the best looking desserts in The Grove...the red velvet cupcakes with AOPi icing looked amazing...On another note explain to me how they
figure out their quota numbers? We use to take the total register and divide by the number of houses...something like that! Does Ole Miss do COB's? Informal Spring Rush?