Recruitment tactics

[CrackerBarrel]

Have a BBQ over the summer. Put up a banner on campus or something, the kids that come, you can go ahead and tell the awful ones to go somewhere else in the fall that your house wouldn't be a good fit for them, tell the ok ones who may get bids thanks for coming and see you in the fall, then have a party at a lake house or something and invite the absolute best kids from the BBQ.

I mean how much PR do you really need, the school tells them when rush is and if your campus has a fraternity row it's pretty obvious where your house is. Whether people on here want to admit it or not, there are tiers, most rushees know them, and most know where in those tiers they should be rushing. Excessive PR is just trying to lure clueless kids to houses that they could probably do better than.

[violetpretty]

Are the fratties just creating sockpuppets to avoid papers/projects/studying for exams?

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel

I mean how much PR do you really need, the school tells them when rush is and if your campus has a fraternity row it's pretty obvious where your house is. Whether people on here want to admit it or not, there are tiers, most rushees know them, and most know where in those tiers they should be rushing. Excessive PR is just trying to lure clueless kids to houses that they could probably do better than.

Not all schools are like this. My school doesn't tell the PNMs/rushes anything about Greek life. We don't know what kind of Greek system the OP comes from. For all you know, he could be part of the only national fraternity on campus and Greek life could just be tiny there. Or he could be at a school with a super competitive rush. Your high and mighty comments don't help either way.

[banditone]

Rush team of several members (with help from in town actives of course). We had a rush house or apartment in town every summer.

Call every incoming and see if they'd be interested in lunch to discuss greek life.

Invite them to parties during the summer.

[magichat]

Facebook groups are good for keeping everyone upto date on whats going on. Other fraternities on campus invite girls into theirs or keep it open for anyone to join, for us its brothers and rushes and we keep it invite only.

Also, try to have parties before rush even starts, we do most of our cuts before rush week begins and pick up very few kids during rush itself.