PNM Registration -- How does it go at your school?

[FSUZeta]

do your chapters not have a minimum grade requirement to give a girl a bid?

if you do have a minimum, how do you go about finding out and verifying their gpa?

what if you have 4 girls with the same name? we did this past recruitment. now they weren't from the same place, but you don't want to keep asking each one of them where they are from everytime they walk through your door.

what if its a new member rushing the pnm-the newbies don't always remember to make a mental note of how the girl spells her name or where she is from-things that can help the girls(and the alumnae assisting) know which sydney zelda zta just had as a rush guest. and they always don't get the last name of the girl.

this past recruitment we pledged 1 cydne, 1 sydni, 2 caitlins, 1 katelyn, 1 jordyn, 1 jordan and 2 brittany's. there were more brittany's and caitlins , one more jordan and a couple of lauras that we did not bid. without those forms, it would have been near impossible to tell them all apart.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

do your chapters not have a minimum grade requirement to give a girl a bid?

Of course we do.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

if you do have a minimum, how do you go about finding out and verifying their gpa?

Our campus has a higher required GPA than any of our individual chapters. [Actually, I think one of the chapters has a GPA equal to that, but whatever.] They are not permitted to register without the minimum GPA.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

what if you have 4 girls with the same name? we did this past recruitment. now they weren't from the same place, but you don't want to keep asking each one of them where they are from everytime they walk through your door.

We make an effort to remember last names. Works like a charm

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

what if its a new member rushing the pnm-the newbies don't always remember to make a mental note of how the girl spells her name or where she is from-things that can help the girls(and the alumnae assisting) know which sydney zelda zta just had as a rush guest. and they always don't get the last name of the girl.

It's called a recruitment workshop. We do several. No newbies are so new that they have no idea what to ask. We let them know what they need to remember. The alumnae are seasoned veterans and don't need our help remembering. Certain aspects of membership selection are involved here as well, which I'm obviously not going to elaborate on.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

this past recruitment we pledged 1 cydne, 1 sydni, 2 caitlins, 1 katelyn, 1 jordyn, 1 jordan and 2 brittany's. there were more brittany's and caitlins , one more jordan and a couple of lauras that we did not bid. without those forms, it would have been near impossible to tell them all apart.

What were their last names? Why couldn't you just say "Cydne with a C Smith"? Works for us, and we have 200+ girls going through every year.

Honestly, I really don't think you need to know all this stuff about potentials.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Honestly, I really don't think you need to know all this stuff about potentials.

AST, sounds like you're in a small pond and what you do works for your chapter -- GREAT!

I can assure you FSUZeta and many of us know your "tricks" like Rush Workshop and remembering last names. Gee, what a concept.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

AST, sounds like you're in a small pond and what you do works for your chapter -- GREAT!

I can assure you FSUZeta and many of us know your "tricks" like Rush Workshop and remembering last names. Gee, what a concept.

I'm sure you do know these things. But she implied that there was no other way. And small? I wouldn't say we're tiny; we have between 200 and 300 girls go through rush every year.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

I say there's nothing wrong with providing more information. There's nothing wrong with the change as long as it's not hurting. The chapters at my school get tons of info in advance: GPAs, activities, legacy, etc. I usually don't see them do much with it but there are many girls that no one remembers and since they have access to that info they can look up these women and decide whether or not she's going on a list or a flex list or if she's not going to make a list at all. It can be helpful to have more info. I'm not so sure about the pictures though, that can come off a little superficial, but we NEVER pair up girls based on previous info. If someone has a common hobby/hometown/band, etc. as a sister it's discovered during conversation and they are introduced, but the extra info can really be a godsend. I say there's nothing wrong with trying something new if they like the concept.

[PhoenixAzul]

Otterbein has anywhere from 100-250 girls go through at a time, and the registration form is just Name, year, ID# (to account for campus food service), dorm, phone, e-mail and legacy. No pictures, no extracurriculars, nothing. That being said, we don't do the whole "bumping" strategy that lot of chapters do, plus we have deferred recruitment (january). It works well for us, but again, our system runs on its own time and its own rules, we're not bound to NPC practice (sometime a good thing, other times, not so much).

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

I'm sure you do know these things. But she implied that there was no other way. And small? I wouldn't say we're tiny; we have between 200 and 300 girls go through rush every year.

i don't feel that i implied that there was only one way to to find out pnm information. i asked no leading questions. i sincerely wanted to know if your campus or your chapter had requirements, because if there is a better way to do things, and it involves less paperwork, i am interested to hear about it.

maybe its a regional thing, but i felt that some of the answers from some of our northern sisters were rude, defensive and condescending. i think it all started with the first response to the op-maybe i missed it, but i did not see the op identify herself as having attended college in the south. did she say where she went to college? she could be from u of michigan, indiana or syracuse. none of us have come up with the perfect recruitment-but if we don't share ideas and compare notes and try to do better, we will never improve.

[kddani]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

AST, sounds like you're in a small pond and what you do works for your chapter -- GREAT!

I can assure you FSUZeta and many of us know your "tricks" like Rush Workshop and remembering last names. Gee, what a concept.

It's totally unnecessary to be so condescending and rude.