Georgia Recruitment

[IHeartUGA]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

It's interesting that you say this, and I hadn't really thought about it this way. It may be harder than it used to be to actually get any bid at all.

I think recruitment at UGA may be "easier" these days in one way: the old south elite groups are more open, I think.

Pre-HOPE grant, I think UGA rush was a very smaller-city, hometown based event. A good girl from Albany or Savannah or Macon, especially if she was from a private school, could expect to be heavily recruited by almost all chapters, but she would really expect to end up in one of maybe five or six GLOs because those were the groups with the girls from her hometown.

Now, with HOPE, a higher percentage of the kids at Georgia are from the Atlanta metro area and went to schools like Parkview, Walton, etc. I think the public school, suburban kids have started to play a much bigger role in the Greek system than they used to, and they're more open to relatively unknown girls from other suburbs, rather than sticking to the little sisters of girls they knew at Deerfield-Windsor or Savannah Country Day.

I'm not sure if it's a good or bad trend, but I think it's a bit of a different ball game.

Are you from Savannah?