NPC Informal recruitment question

[LocalLove9]

Generally at my school, the houses eligible to COB were given a list of pnm's who dropped or were released from recruitment, and it is then at the discretion of the houses to contact those girls if interested. For girls who never rushed at all, it more depends on people in the chapter knowing them and feeling out their potential interest for attending events. And there are always one or two girls who go to panhell saying "I couldn't rush for whatever reason" but I'd really like a bid" or "I got cut give me a biddddd." And panhell passes those girls names on to the houses who might have room to bid them. The "I got cut wahhh" girls are usually then shocked to find they don't get one though, because those houses with room are the same houses that cut them for being whiny and pouty and rude. Oh entitled pnms.

My house, which is typically eligible to COB and picks up a good number of members that way, doesn't usually have formal cob events though. It's more a matter of extending an invitation to girls to attend events usually over about the period of a week, and so they get a feel for life as a sister.

Moral: at my school,best call is talking to your friends who just rushed and got bids, or going to panhell and asking them to pass on your name.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by LocalLove9

Moral: at my school,best call is talking to your friends who just rushed and got bids, or going to panhell and asking them to pass on your name.

The problem is that some NM's aren't necessarily in the know either. Informal differs from school to school, but I think that the following are always okay:

1) Get numbers from the GL office to see who is eligible. Chapters are eligible if they did not make quota during recruitment OR if they are under campus total.

2) Ask the GL office of any events they know of and keep you eye out for flyers, quad chalk, ads in the student newspaper, etc.

3) Ask the GL office to pass you contact info along to the eligible sororities.

4) Hint at you interest to friends in the eligible chapters.

The following are sometimes okay:

5) Openly express interest to friends in the eligible chapters.

6) E-mail the recruitment chairs of the eligible chapters to express interest.

7) Express interest to your friends in non-eligible chapters, and see if they can make any introductions. If you had an unsuccessful formal recruitment, you may be able to reach out to your rho chi.

The propriety of 5, 6, and 7 differ by campus and chapter. However, I will go ahead and say that, if one or two chapters are noticeably smaller than the others, you can directly express interest. This does not mean that they are desperate for members or that it's guaranteed they will offer you a bid. It simply means that it is probably no secret that they are smaller and participating in COB, and they're probably more interested in getting quality women than in keeping their COB efforts a secret.