UGA Recruitment Winds Down

[SWTXBelle]

If you have a suggestion as to how to match hundreds, if not over a thousand, girls with 10 or more sororities in a week's time I'd love to hear it. I don't want to sound snarky - I just honestly have yet to hear of a better way.

The system, flawed though it is, is the best we've come up with so far. The new release figures have done a wonderful job of helping match each girl with a sorority home - and yes, you are right, it doesn't always work. I will point out that it worked out for your daughter, and even had she been placed with her other pref group it might have - we have many threads in our recruitment threads that have that exact scenario, and many of those who didn't think they would click found that they were actually where they were meant to be.

Formal rush is really a very intense experience. I've posted elsewhere that my daughter will not be going through formal rush because she and I know she would not be comfortable with the hot-house environment of recruitment. I hope she is able to find a home through informal recruitment, but who knows.

I think the NPC has done a great job of trying to address concerns about recruitment. And I would be very surprised if they weren't always trying to think of ways to improve the three types of recruitment they currently recommend.

I'm so glad your daughter had a happy result. Hope she really enjoys her new member period.

[wildcatfan]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

If you have a suggestion as to how to match hundreds, if not over a thousand, girls with 10 or more sororities in a week's time I'd love to hear it. I don't want to sound snarky - I just honestly have yet to hear of a better way.

I agree, I dislike the system but don't have any better ideas. It reminds me of this quote:

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

Substitute "Formal recruitment" for democracy and "membership selection" for government, and it pretty much describes the situation.

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by Greek Stress

There must be a better way?

For every application process there MUST be a better way. Take Medical School. The people who are accepted into Medical Schools aren't necessarily the people who will make the best doctors. The process doesn't test for compassion, charisma, and passion. It tests for people who look good on paper: smart, high grades, involved. Why? Surely on something as important as the future health care of the U.S. we'd find a way to test for all these?

Because, with millions of applicants each year, it simply isn't feasible. Yes, it sucks. But the way they currently have works reasonably well. Same thing with formal recruitment. It isn't the hypothetical best. But, it's the best practical form of recruitment with hundreds to thousands of girls going through each year.

Some girls miss out on some great chapters; some chapters miss out on some great girls. This happens even in Informal/COB where you theoretically have more time.

All you can do is make the best of the hand you were dealt. Greek Stress, for you this means to take a step back, be thankful your daughter got a bid at one of the most competitive recruitments in the country, and allow her to fall in love with her Sorority and her Chapter.

I promise you that complaining about how she didn't get her top WILL ruin her sorority experience for her. She'll never get to think about how lucky she is to be a XYZ: all she'll be doing is wishing for ABC. Allow her to enjoy her new sorority.