SPRING RECRUITMENT AT UGA

UGAalum94 · #1 01-20-2009, 07:37 PM

This may seem odd too, but I'm not sure the benefit to smaller chapters is that great by limiting the number of rushers.

Sure, the smaller chapters don't appear smaller right off the bat, but you might have a better chance competing with a whole cross section of a chapter than with just the top 50 (or whatever) most socially gifted.

From a pure pragmatic standpoint though, I think you'd have to limit numbers just so not to overwhelm the PNMs. I'm assuming that the PNMs will be broken into groups, and with only 150-200 (or whatever) and 17 groups that you could go to, you don't need 4 member to 1 PNM ratio.

My guess is that it's to really make people do an informal recruitment event rather than just recycle parties from formal.

SWTXBelle · #2 01-20-2009, 08:47 PM

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

It's just an idea - I think we all are looking ways for ways to improve recruitment. I would be interested in knowing if any school does do it that way, and if that made a difference.

UGAalum94 · #3 01-21-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

It's just an idea - I think we all are looking ways for ways to improve recruitment. I would be interested in knowing if any school does do it that way, and if that made a difference.

Absolutely. I was just thinking of UGA specifically and even there it might help; it just might have some unintended consequences as well.

KSUViolet06 · #4 01-21-2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The problem with appearing much smaller is you never get over that initial "Oh, they must have a problem or they wouldn't be so small". Meeting a cross-section then isn't an issue - pnms too often simply won't give them a chance. Some chapters have used members from near-by chapters to fill out their numbers - I hate that. You need to be meeting girls who might be your sisters.

I tend to think that bringing in members from other chapters actually hurts a chapter. The women may be passionate about XYZ, but they can't speak to the experience of being a member of THAT chapter, which is alot of what the PNMs will be asking about. The women from other schools can't talk about how fun the mixer with ___ fraternity was, or why they do _____ for the local philanthropy event. That leads PNMs to wonder "Why are some of the girls at XYZ from different schools, and the girls at AAA, BBB, etc. all from the same school?"

SWTXBelle · #5 01-21-2009, 07:43 PM

Agreed. I've never know bringing in other chapter's members to work. (But of course, my experience is limited.)

UGAalum94 · #6 01-21-2009, 08:00 PM

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Agreed. I've never know bringing in other chapter's members to work. (But of course, my experience is limited.)

I think I've heard of a few cases where girls were brought in to sing or stand around to make the group look bigger in the whole chapter setting, but didn't actually do any one on one rushing.

That seems like it might help if you had enough actual chapter members to still rush girls. When you've got 70 or so PNMs per party, as I think you would at UGA for first round (1200/17), I think all the chapter have 70+ members. So if you brought in some members from other chapters to seem as big and the party as full as others would be, maybe?

I honestly don't know what they do these days in terms of door chants or whatever, but I can remember all of us assembling in the foyer. If we only had 100 girls and other groups had 150+, the first impression was still different even if PNMs liked the members they met. With girls from other campuses to swell that first assembly, you could avoid that and still only really have PNMs meet your chapter. It's still a little bait and switch and for that reason undesirable, but when you're dealing with first impressions carrying a lot of weight, I'm not going to judge.