Southern Miss recruitment

[tothetop]

The booklet from USM says "Sorority Intake Recruiment"

Originally Posted by tothetop

The booklet from USM says "Sorority Intake Recruiment"

Ok, but most Greeks (here on GC, anyway) often associate the word intake with the NPHC.

I'm not doubting you, I just don't think I've ever heard of NPC Sorority Intake Recruitment. It just sounds weird. It's like saying, "I'm going to the supermarket grocery store."

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ta kala

I would bet that it also has NPHC groups in the packet, so it's trying to be inclusive. When I was an undergrad intern in our Greek Life office, I was asked to plan a Recruitment Boot Camp, but since I was later asked to invite the NPHC groups, I just changed it to a PR Boot Camp, so as to not exclude them.

Just out of curiousity, did any of the NPHC members show up? I guess I just can't see what they would get out of RBC.

[OleMissGlitter]

For Southern Miss recruitment you should be okay. I have friends who went through as sophomores and they received bids from their top choice. However, I would still get at least one rec for each sorority. USM has a pretty strong system and at the same time it's a complete different system than say Ole Miss or even MSU. I am going to guess that recruitment parties are during the day since the dates are August 7-12, 2008. Classes start Wednesday, August 20, 2008. I would wear whatever Greek Life is suggesting you to wear after all they don't just make that stuff up! (Remember Ole Miss and MSU are totally different!) On their Greek Life website you can contact Greek Life and ask them any questions. I personally don’t think USM is as competitive as Ole Miss or even MSU, but just remember that recruitment is a mutual selection process, and you have to play the game!

[USMAnchorGirl]

While it is true that Southern Miss Recruitment is not as competitive as recruitment at Ole Miss and Miss State, this does not always mean women get bids to the sororities they want. As OleMissGlitter said, always remember it is a mutual selection process. I believe that in the past few years no women have been released, but for many women that meant they got a bid to a group they may not have been as excited about. But, as we all know, if the women give it a chance, they may find it was for the best!

As far as clothing goes, Greek Life at Southern Miss has recently taken big steps to towards enacting the "no frills" recruitment policies. From my experience, the information from Greek Life can be watered down in order to encourage more women to participate by putting less pressure on the potential new members. For example, they stress that you don't need to get recommendations, but in reality a woman with a recommendation will have a distinct advantage over a woman without one. And, in order to get a bid to most sororities, you must have a recommendation. Same with clothing...if I were you, I would bring what the book says, but if you can, maybe bring an extra couple of things that are a bit dressier so that you'll have some options.

Also, recruitment is during the day.

[mjohn9083]

I'm also going through recruitment at USM this fall! I called Greek Life just to double check everything and found out that Theta's national pulled their chapter our so now USM has 7 sororities. I guess we will go to 7 parties the first day and eventually only have one cut at some point.

I'm bringing "party attire" for all 5 days, and we have to have tennis shoes for Monday.

Anyway, hope this helps and I wish us both all the luck!