A Different Kind of Live Recruitment Story

[ASTalumna06]

Like I've said, if our situation improves number-wise, it might not even be a problem.

Quite frankly, a large problem with it is that the fraternities tend to ignore it the rule, hide the fact that they have first semester freshmen, and still only have classes of maybe 5 in the fall semester. Funny thing is, in the one fraternity that I know very well, the guys they take as first semesters are the ones who succeed more so than any others. One of the first semester freshmen they took last year had the highest GPA in the chapter.

On the other hand... my chapter has followed the rules, and in the past 2 years they've had one girl fail out of school (after having a very good GPA when she first joined), another girl who left school for a little while and came back, only to do absolutely nothing and party all the time, and get herself kicked out, and another girl, who, while she seemed fine at first, started to not attend new member events and activities, then HAD to be initiated because it was so late in the new member process, and then lied and transferred schools without even telling anyone.

We've had our fair share of problems in that regard, we've dealt with them, and obviously none of them were a result of deferred recruitment.

Now, if we had a system such as yours alphagam, that might work in our favor. In that respect, during the fall semester, we could COB those girls that we know are second semester freshmen and up, and at the same time, attempt to have first semester freshmen, along with anyone else interested, sign-up for spring formal recruitment.

Again, with COB all year, it makes things difficult. But strictly having formal right now would be difficult, too. But as you've been able to see from my first post, there's a trend of having smaller new member classes in the fall and having larger ones in the spring.

It's hard deduct which systems would work best, as formal had failed, and COB hasn't produced large results for all 3 chapters, either. But maybe an in-between, let's try both, kind of approach might work.