Recruitment Help!!!!

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Originally Posted by LadyLion4Life

We do Formal Recruitment in the Fall and then COBs after that. We do COBs every month in the Spring with a couple more in the beginning. I am just afraid we won't get many girls this Spring. We had COBs all Fall and had hardly any girls come out to them and I think this is why I am afraid for Spring.

Do you actually have a spring pledge class, or do you just bid and hold over the girls you get until they can pledge with the next fall's class? Or do you (eek) wait till the next fall to bid them?

For the COB events, do you have parties that are pretty much exactly like your formal rush parties, or do you have non-events - like inviting girls over to watch Grey's Anatomy, inviting them to come to a campus theater production, having lunch with them? You should be doing the latter, not the former. If you are essentially "formal rushing" all year it's going to drain you and the PNMs will wonder why on earth they should join a bunch of girls who look stressed out all the time.

Don't open your COB parties to completely random women via chalking, flyering, facebook/myspace. Everyone at these parties should be someone a sister personally knows and has personally invited. This may be the complete opposite of what you've been told - but the truth is - women join because of the one to one connections they make. If a sister has personally invited them, you've already got one of those connections taken care of. You need to get more "bang for your buck" where COBing is concerned.