informal recruitment again

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Deepher4Life

from this website, i have seen that this is not the case at some more competitive schools... do you guys actually see a girls gpa or transcript or whatever... i would think all those things would be private to a student organization

Our school did things differently for formal & informal.

During formal, we use the recruitment software ICS, and they list their own GPA in the form, so we do get to see it. Panhellenic does a double check with the Registrar to be sure that the GPA and class standing they listed are correct.

For informal, we would ask the girls to fill out a grade release, sumbit their names to the Greek Life Office, and they would tell us if the girl met our minimum GPA. We only got a "yes" or "no", we didn't get to see the GPA.

[AnatraAmore]

For recruitment at our school, PNMs sign a waiver allowing the Greek Life office to check their GPA's. Each chapter sets their minimum and we receive a list of women who's GPA's meet or exceed that GPA and how many credits a PNM has at recruitment time.

Once members are initiated they sign a grade release which allows both the chapter and the Greek life office to check GPA's and credits each semester.

We never find out where those credits came from (ex: transfer, AP, etc.) but we receive information related to GPA and class standing (like if a sister signs up for 15 credits but by the end of the semester has dropped/withdrawn from 9 credits...)

[Drolefille]

We received GPAs, but I wouldn't consider us a competitive school as far as recruitment. We didn't see a transcript, but we got a self-report on the recruitment sign up form, and then got confirmation of high school and/or college GPA from the school itself.

Note to PNMS: If you're a sophomore with a low GPA don't just list your high school GPA because it was higher. We will find out.

[shadden]

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I am hoping someone will know the answer. I am seeing many posts from mothers whose daughters went through fall rush, and then have not had success with informal rush in the spring. When I was in school my chapter was not allowed to invite a girl back to informal rush or COB if they had released her in the fall. I am assuming that was a national policy. At that time cuts were not nearly as heavy as they appear to be now, so the rationale was that if you had released a girl there was a good reason behind it. Since it appears that some of the new guidelines result in a larger group not being invited back earlier in the game, does anyone know if this is still the case? It would seem to me that if a girl left formal rush thinking she would have better results in informal or the following year, that might not be true.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by shadden

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I am hoping someone will know the answer. I am seeing many posts from mothers whose daughters went through fall rush, and then have not had success with informal rush in the spring. When I was in school my chapter was not allowed to invite a girl back to informal rush or COB if they had released her in the fall. I am assuming that was a national policy. At that time cuts were not nearly as heavy as they appear to be now, so the rationale was that if you had released a girl there was a good reason behind it. Since it appears that some of the new guidelines result in a larger group not being invited back earlier in the game, does anyone know if this is still the case? It would seem to me that if a girl left formal rush thinking she would have better results in informal or the following year, that might not be true.

I'm nnot sure what you're asking.

Are you asking is it still the case that you can't invite someone to do COB that was released in the fall? I think that depends on the sorority. Everybody on my campus had different rules about that.

[shadden]

I was wondering if most sororities had the policy of never again rushing a girl once she had been released, and if pnm's were made aware of this.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by shadden

I was wondering if most sororities had the policy of never again rushing a girl once she had been released, and if pnm's were made aware of this.

I see that as more of a "campus culture" thing. At some schools, sororities won't go near a PNM that went through formal and was released. I know that chapters at my school routinely saw PNMs during COB that were either cut early from formal recruitment or withdrew.

If a sorority did have such a policy, I'm sure it's something that's not public info.

[shadden]

Thanks KSUViolet - I was hoping that was not the case everywhere. Formal rush can be so overwhelming, especially on a large campus, and I like to think informal opens some new doors for those who had a bad first experience.