A Different Kind of Live Recruitment Story

[ASTalumna06]

Ok, I have an update!

… but things have been confusing.

On Friday, the Recruitment Director received the grade release form back from the Greek Advisor. She informed the RD that the chapter could not bid first semester freshmen (obviously already known) or transfer students.

WHAT?!

She said that because they don’t yet have a Penn State GPA, transfer students were considered to be like first semester freshmen, and therefore could not receive a bid until the following semester. Well… the sisters started to realize that a good number of the upperclassmen that were at the recruitment events were transfer students. So the girls were down to only a few girls that were eligible to receive bids.

Then comes bid day.

The girls were ready and in the mindset that they would be handing out only a few bids later that night. Come 12:00, the girls were all sitting down at sister lunch (which they have together every Tuesday), and the Recruitment Director joined them and told them all that Student Activities screwed up. It turns out that transfer students are eligible to receive bids as long as they have a certain amount of credits from another university (or something like that). The sisters attempted to get the necessary people together so a vote could be made that day on the PNMs, but it didn’t work out, and with 2 people missing, they didn't have everyone that they needed in order to make a decision.

The President has called a special meeting tonight in order to decide.

So… the number of new members they actually have will be a secret revealed on another day.