Advisor's Recruitment Story

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Actually the recent deactivating problem was earlier this year. Basically our numbers weren't as good as they wanted for formal recruitment and total was at approximately 52. The Pan Hel advisor had heard that some girls were saying that if they got cut from a house that they wanted they could just wait until fall and get in because they knew that fall recruitment occurs. obviously this is false sentiment as I don't really know of many individuals that were cut by a chapter during formal and then extended a bid in the fall. Most people that drop out in the spring never return to greek life. I think the fall reasoning was just an excuse to drop out and save face.

So, our advisor wanted to eliminate fall recruitment as much as possible and part of that was lowering total so there wouldn't be as big of pledge classes in the fall.

The status of the chapters at that time were: out of 6 all were eitehr at total or usually only a few behind going into spring and then, with the graduating class would have around 10 spots in the fall. There was one chapter that was struggling more than others but it wasn't like 1/2 the chapter size of the others but they lost a senior class that effectively cut their chapter in half right before total was lowered so they were having a harder time refilling.

I'll admit that I am getting some of this information for the sisters as some of this happened when I wasn't there. I know our nationals wasn't happy with the lowering of total and didn't think it was beneficial to the chapters. I just fill that lowering total should only be done if there is a large amount of chapters struggling or after you have expanded as many efforts has possible to try to raise numbers, not as a first choice and not because you want to eliminate fall recruitment as much as possible. Chapter total was dropped by nine so it is now 42.