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

[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.