Alabama Recruitment Prediction (Fall 2008)

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Zillini

Obviously I have no idea what the new colonies plan to use as their GPA cutoffs, but I know for a fact that a lot of fabulous PNMs get cut by the established Chapters because they just missed the minimum GPA, which is typically well above the Inatl minimums. This group of women would be worth looking at by a colony and would give those PNMs a great opportunity they otherwise might not have.

Do you think they'd be less likely to end up in the colony if the expansion group did formal rather than waited?

It seems to me that it would be easier and more exciting for the PNMs to be able to find the colony the way you've described if it happened during formal.

[FreshmenDAD]

Sorry if this has already been covered but one thing Alpha Phi made clear at Alabama Panhellenic weekend was they would try to pick up equal numbers of seniors, juniors, sophs and freshmen. The reason for this is they don't want to load up with a bunch of freshmen which would all graduate in four years leaving a big void. So with that said think about all the girls who have transferred to BAMA and found it tough to get a bid during regular recruitment.

Also a big perk Alpha Phi is offering is that no girls currently live in their house so it is wide open and I believe dorm contracts can be broken to accommodate girls who would like to move into the Alpha Phi house.

[Zillini]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Do you think they'd be less likely to end up in the colony if the expansion group did formal rather than waited?

It seems to me that it would be easier and more exciting for the PNMs to be able to find the colony the way you've described if it happened during formal.

Having never witnessed a colonization process before I really have no idea if one way would be better than another. A big drawback to fully participating in formal Recruitment I forsee are the numbers would be significantly skewed towards Freshmen. At least at Bama, elsewhere might be different.

Even though Bama has an upperclassmen quota, the percentage of freshmen is still really high. I'd have to look up the exact figures from last year, but I'd guess freshmen made up roughly 90% of all PNMs who registered. If I'm not mistaken quota was 73 freshmen and 7 upperclassmen, so 10% upperclassmen sounds about right. Every year that number is growing though.

I expect Alpha Phi to attract a wide variety of potential new members. Sure there will be some who have gone through formal Recruitment either this year or years past and didn't find a home for whatever reason. I also foresee it being intriguing to women who never even contemplated being Greek before. The idea of creating something new is very exciting. There may be others who would love to be Greek but the whole Bama competitive formal Recruitment process is/was so intimidating they never participated. I could go on and on.