Ole Miss Recruitment?

GatorDG · #1 10-08-2007, 12:09 AM

Back to where the twins pledged. I know that DG has one set. I think they were from Maryland.

As far as rush, I can see both sides. I will say that if they moved rush back just a couple of weeks so that it is not DURING mid-terms it would be better. Because of the fear of "dirty rushing" there is not a whole lot of interaction between the girls in the GLO's prior to rush. It does give the houses the time to observe the girls, but the girls really do not have any idea who is in a GLO unless they are wearing T-shirts, etc. I know my daughter was shocked at all the girls she knew in GLO's when she went through two weeks ago.

My daughter was coming from out-of-state (actually out of the region) so it was nice that she had the extra time for the houses to get to know her. She had a great recruitment for someone who went to Ole Miss knowing NO ONE. She might have done better in a deferred rush, but who knows. She is thrilled to be in a house, getting to know people, having a wonderful time and getting decent food.

I want to thank all of you on GC for the input during the past several months. I will say that it was a very tense time, but well worth the effort. I was able to help my daughter, as well as others, really understand that a lot of rush is a numbers game. The houses/members may really like you, but there is only so much room. Which is amazing considering the size of the pledge classes. Thanks again for the help.

OleMissGlitter · #2 10-08-2007, 10:07 AM

My recruitment was the last year they held it before school started. Then in Fall of 1997 they moved it to like 6 weeks into the fall semester. I believe it was either that year or the year after that when rush was over two weekends, talk about exhausting! Rush dates are usually based on now when there is an away football game weekend that is about 4-6 weeks into the first semester. Last year it happened that Homecoming was the weekend before rush, so I can assure that active members were not that interested in decorating homecoming floats. But they endured and all of the sororities and fraternities had floats.

I am afraid that they are not going to move rush to the way it use to be or to later on in the semester or even January. The Administration had many reasons to move it, one was retention rates and another was when they secured the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter at a public university in the State of Mississippi. I helped write a proposal two years ago with other sorority advisors on campus about why it should be moved to before school starts. However, that did not help to persuade anyone at all.

So the point is, that Ole Miss rush will stay the way it is. I don't see the Administration moving it at this point. I think finally after ten years of having deferred recruitment, the Ole Miss Greeks are finally adapting.

SECMom · #3 10-09-2007, 09:45 AM

The Administration had many reasons to move it, one was retention rates and another was when they secured the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter at a public university in the State of Mississippi.

Wait.... I understand the retention rate issue but what does Phi Beta Kappa have to do with it?

LXA SE285 · #4 10-09-2007, 10:02 AM

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Wait.... I understand the retention rate issue but what does Phi Beta Kappa have to do with it?

My guess is that the steering committee at the time Ole Miss was trying to charter a chapter didn't want PBK's national officers to see something that might be construed as frivolous and an indication that the school didn't take academics seriously.

OleMissGlitter · #5 10-09-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LXA SE285

My guess is that the steering committee at the time Ole Miss was trying to charter a chapter didn't want PBK's national officers to see something that might be construed as frivolous and an indication that the school didn't take academics seriously.

Exactly. Totally agree with you LXA SE285.

olemisstransfer · #6 10-20-2010, 02:50 AM

Alright, I am a freshman at a community college and will be transferring to Ole Miss in the spring. I was accepted for the fall, but situations prevented me from going. I am so so worried about rush, though. Since Ole Miss doesn't do spring rush I'll have to wait until the fall and then I'll be a sophomore, and houses rarely bid non-freshman. My town isn't well represented at Ole Miss and I only know one person from my town and it's a boy. I know a few freshman, but I'm just not sure what the chances of me getting a big would be with all these factors kind-of against me. Any advice?

33girl · #7 10-20-2010, 09:49 AM

You're transferring in the spring. Use that semester to get as involved on campus and meet as many people as you can.

Also, you're not a member so you can't really say what the chapters (that is the correct term, not "houses." Houses are inanimate structures made of brick, cement and wood. Chapters are made of people.) do or don't do. Something may appear to be so looking in from the outside but until you're on the inside you really don't know if your assumptions are true.