informal recruitment again

[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.