Alabama Recruitment

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by bama

Bingo Zillini!

I know people don't get how we do things, but like I said it is because we have such a high volume of girls we have to take other things into consideration. Out of 1500, each house gets to choose 77 or so. I am starting to get the impression that some posters believe we should be changing our practices or that some how "the way they did things at their school back in the day" is some how superior. I am in no way saying how things ran at Bama are the best, we can always improve, I am just saying this is what works for our system right now. It is unfortunate that not all girls get matched and some really great girls slip through the cracks. If your school had that many girls going through, how would you make cuts? You would get nit picky too.

And LittleOwl- are you somehow inferring that Alabama is not a good academic university? I know some people think we are all inbred and don't wear shoes, but The University of Alabama System (UA, UAH, UAB) is one of the highest respected systems in the country for engineering, medicine, business, etc. We are able to maintain 3.5+ GPAs and still know how to have a good party. I have friends who graduated from ivy league schools who have amounted to nothing after college and some of the most successful people, in the South at least, graduated from UA. And like I said, elsewhere things maybe different, but when I say I am a graduate of the University of Alabama, the first thing out of people's mouths are "What sorority are you in?" and I am proud to tell them.

My grandparents are from Alabama (Camden, Tuscaloosa, and Hoover), so should hope that being from AL doesn't mean that, lol.

[lawgal]

I have to second the part about the mindset being different outside of the south. Some of the sorority women that I know were enthusiastic that my daughter was going through recruitment, but told me that recs were really not needed! This is even though they knew she was going to an SEC school. I had a friend who had promised to help my daughter with recs, who then went out of town for a period and when she got back said, sorry she had forgotten but she was sure it would not affect my daughter's rush. If it were not for some wonderful people at an alumnae panhellenic that wasn't even in our geographic radar and a truly wonderful woman here on GC, we would never have gotten all the recs in time. And my daughter had started early. I truly sympathize with the out-of-region pnms who come to SEC recruitment without that kind of help. I know my daughter told me that alot of those girls dropped out of recruitment or were cut heavily right out of the box. (On the other hand, I think Cincinnati must be a city with a southern heart - those girls always seem to be prepared for the SEC rush.)