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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Why are the first pledge meetings prior to the pledge induction?
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Timeline for my chapter:
- Rush & Informationals starting 1st & 2nd full week back (
- The first pledge meeting 3rd week, considered start of pledge program
- 2nd pledge meeting 4th week, pledge ceremony that weekend
- continue on until Pledge Review 8 weeks later, ceremony that weekend
They have the couple of meetings to determine who is actually going to pledge and be better able to match up pledges and sponsors (so they don't put the timid, quiet, non-drinking pledge with the chapter drunk
). Knock it all you want, but this chapter has never had a pledge class under 30 in at least 15 years, and recently has had multiple 60+ person pledge classes. Chalk this one up to regional differences as well. You do names/numbers, they run their pledge class in this manner. Both have the same end result.
This has been an effective method for them to have a high conversion rate. One of my other chapters switched to having a meeting between end of rush and pledge ceremony and for two years had a 100% pledge-to-active conversion rate (their retention is in the shitter, but that's not related, as that was a problem before) They used to end rush and go straight to ceremony, which always resulted in a "we have no idea how many are going to show up" situation.
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