A very lovely sophomore recruitment!

[FSUZeta]

Congratulations!!

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor

I agree. I can not imagine it would work on my campus. I think you would have tons of girls showing up to some parties and not showing up at others. Did I read correctly that even if your not invited back you can just show up? How do the Chapters know who is coming and how many? Did I miss what college this is?

Originally Posted by 33girl

As Dee said, it's Eastern Michigan.

At many, many campuses with a more laid back rush, the only "invite-only" event is pref. Not knowing how many is coming really isn't a problem because rush simply isn't that huge. There's only one party for each group (i.e. AXO only has to do their philanthropy day party once, not 10 times like they would at an SEC school). Sometimes groups may specially invite women they are more interested in, but even if you don't get an invite you can still come.

victoriana - did you get multiple bids to choose from or did you fill out a pref card?

I haven't worked directly with my own chapter in a while but I did work with Wayne State in Detroit this year and they do some similar things. This is NOT a big Greek school. As she had noted, there are 20-25K students and about 400 women registered for recruitment. That's actually a lot if that many really went through. When things were done more formally, quota was usually between 9 and 12 (so 81-108 women placed) and Total was 55 last year. No Quota is listed so I think they've abandoned the quota concept altogether. Most chapters were doing COR too. At Wayne State, the parties are more like Open Houses the whole time with no real start or end time and it's up to PNMs to spread their time around. THAT makes rotation very difficult and it is true that you could end up with 15 PNMs present at one point and 85 at another, but it somehow seems to work out. I think EMU has a little more structure to their parties than Wayne State did this year. Wayne State even had coke dating during a one week break in the middle of the more formal (although informal) recruitment events.

Their bid day events started at 3 pm so I think she's out with her new sisters now