The University of Texas Austin-A Hill Country Recruitment!

[Ladybugmom]

Good luck to Sweet Pea and Sunshine! Wow! 1098 is alot! I know my daughter said they have 17 parties today..which start in 10 minutes
Good luck to all of the PNM's and all of the fabulous chapters at UT!

[lirvin10]

As a Garner fan, I have to vote for Leakey!!!

Does anyone have an idea of how many girls will actually get a spot? Thanks for all this great info!

[Ladybugmom]

Originally Posted by lirvin10

As a Garner fan, I have to vote for Leakey!!!

Does anyone have an idea of how many girls will actually get a spot? Thanks for all this great info!

They dont have a set number of girls that will get a spot..it is based on how many attend preference parties on the last night. For example..(and this is very simplified and might not be 100% correct) if there are 10 chapters and 1000 girls are still in the running on preference night, then each chapter can extend 100 bids. Last year the quota was around 52. It will hopefully be higher this year because more girls are going through recruitment. It really depends on how many drop out before pref...in a perfect world, none would drop out. I hope this makes sense! Right now there are 13 Chapters and 1198 girls so if no one dropped out, each pledge class would be around 92..

[in_a_mad_rush]

Ok so Sweet Pea had a great night at skit night. This how it went down:

Leakey-She thought the skit was just really strange. Her rusher was a bit quiet but she was introduced to some officers. Since she really liked all the houses yesterday and she was waiting for some type of fireworks, etc, and this did not happen here.

Wimberley-She really enjoyed her time here. She continues to love the balance of Scholarship, Social, and a Philanthropy that really speaks to her. She can see a home here for herself and she is really excited about what a future here would be like.

Dripping Springs-A house that is very popular and Sweet Pea was happy to see them on her list, but today, they just didn’t deliver the feelings she was looking for. She still really likes them and was having a “tent talk” block about ranking a “popular house” outside the top three.

Kerrville-This house was certainly showing the love tonight. Sweet Pea had contact with earlier rushers and officers and she enjoyed the skit.

New Braunfels-Sweet Pea had some concerns about this house earlier in the week. She was concerned about the balance it was striking between Scholarship, Social and Philanthropy. She said by far the skit was the most well done and funniest. The great time she had here left her scratching her head (not in public of course!) in utter confusion.

Blanco-Again, this is another house that was really showing the love to Sweet Pea and Sweet Pea was really happy with how things progressed here.

So she was really confused as she sat in front of the computer. The only thing she was really sure of was placing Leakey last. She is really torn between the last five and said she could see herself at any of the five houses, understanding Dripping Springs may have just been having an off night since she had loved them earlier. So she took a deep breath and hit enter…….

1. Wimberley
2. Kerrville
3. Blanco
4. New Braunfels
5. Dripping Springs
6. Leakey

Even though New Braunfels completely dazzled tonight, Sweet Pea chose Wimberley, Kerrville and Blanco because they had consistently delivered all week and after reviewing her journal for the week she decided….slow and steady wins the race. With that said, she is having separation anxiety with New Braunfels and is glad that this process is back in the computer’s hands. She honestly could see herself at any of the top 5 she has listed (Knowing she really liked Dripping Springs all week...and maybe they were just "off" tonight). So now she waits…….. Pref Night Invites go out at 4:30 tomorrow night.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Wary

I'm gonna go with Dripping Springs, in honor of the Salt Lick... although Llano has some kick-ass bbq as well. Those'll be the two I'm pulling for.

I'll tty tonight...

Wary, between this thread and your thread about Texas food, I'm about ready to get on a plane and fly over there. I miss the food THIS much.

Aside from that, I love following these Texas threads!

[I<3Texas]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Wary, between this thread and your thread about Texas food, I'm about ready to get on a plane and fly over there. I miss the food THIS much.

Aside from that, I love following these Texas threads!

mmm Coopers!

Definitely went to Rudy's tonight in honor of this thread

[DubaiSis]

Based on a lot of conversations here on GC, I don't know of any medium or larger sized Greek system that doesn't use RFM. Dealing with rush matching by hand is SOOOOO last century.

[Just interested]

I was told the last time that many went through at UT they had summer town rush and only invitational parties. Wow, are they having to make some major adjustments for the crowd.

[KSUViolet06]

Non-RFM schools are few and far between and are typically VERY small (like 3 sororities or fewer.) The vast majority (including UT and all other competitive recruitments) are RFM now.

[txmomsecgrad]

heard quota could be around 60 per house we shall see

[in_a_mad_rush]

Kerrville-Liked the girl and the conversation flowed well. She was introduced to the Chapter President and the Vice President of Recruitment and the rusher told her she hoped to see her tomorrow.


Burnet-The girl was really nice but the conversation felt very forced.

Leaky-was rushed by two girls. She didn’t care for the first girl but really liked the second girl. She liked this house but was not sure she loved it.


Blanco-She really liked this house! She really liked the girl she talked to. She felt at home there and the conversation was easy. She was introduced to the VP of recruitment here.


Boerne-She really liked this house. It was really loud here and she had a really hard time hearing her rusher and she felt the whole situation was really crazy there. She hopes she gets another opportunity here to actually get to hear what the girls are saying. She says this was the only house where noise was an issue.


Dripping Springs-She really liked this house. The rusher here was just really easy going. She really hopes she goes back here.


Fredericksburg-She really, really, liked this house. She felt this girl was just fun. The conversation was more pop culture based and a nice break from “what’s your major?”


New Braunfels-She really loves this house. She spoke with two girls here and she thought the conversation flowed really well here. She is not sure this would ultimately be the house for her, but she is excited about the chance to go back.


Wimberley-This was her absolute favorite of the day. She was rushed by one girl but was introduced to three other girls. She felt these girls really showed her what sisterhood was all about and is praying they are on her party list tomorrow. This is the front runner.


Luckenbach-She really felt that the second you walked in you could tell who was on the bid list and who wasn’t. She spoke with someone for a few minutes and then she was introduced to so many people and it was just as if they were burning time and they treated everyone the same way but she just felt they didn’t want to get to know anyone but it was just a big social party…very awkward.


Gruene-She really liked this house and her rusher was sweet and nice and she got introduced to her rusher’s big and she felt once the big came in, although Sweet Pea was still very much part of the conversation, she just felt like it was awkward.


Llano-The girl she talked to was nice but she thought the conversation was forced and she was not comfortable there.


Horseshoe Bay-The rusher was really nice but she was felt the rusher was really showing her tiredness. (it was the rusher’s 17th party…I’d be tired too) Sweet Pea felt she was holding up the conversation.

She had to rank their bottom three and they were:
Burnet
Luckenbach
Llano

Convocation is scheduled @ 3:00 but she said they will not get their invite list until 3:30 tomorrow. First party of round 2 is at 4:30.

[in_a_mad_rush]

Hi!

Ok so the invite list for Round 2 is out and the max invites were 10 and she received 8, with her mental top 3 being included!! (optimistic hip hip horay!): My only question that did not get answered before she had to go is why she has less than 5 parties today, but more than five tomorrow. The guidelines originally said parties would be 5 & 5 over two days and I can only speculate that because of the larger numbers maybe they are doing 6 & 6 or 7 & 7 to accommodate the larger numbers. She did say tomorrow's parties were from 8:00-2:30 and originally they were scheduled from 9:00-2:05.

So anyway....she is returning to:

Gruene
Wimberely
Dripping Springs
Blanco
New Braunfels
Kerrville
Llano
Leakey

[Wary]

Yay, Dripping Springs!

[in_a_mad_rush]

Philanthropy Round-Over 2 Days

So Sweet Pea attended parties at the following houses:

Gruene
Wimberely
Dripping Springs
Blanco
New Braunfels
Kerrville
Llano
Leakey

She attended the party at Gruene and really loved their philanthropy. She had a good conversation with her rusher and enjoyed learning more about the chapter.

Wimberley, her original front runner, again made a very strong showing but keep reading to find out what she thought about the overall process of recruitment and how it effects that thought process.

Dripping Springs-She really had a great time here today. She felt stronger about this chapter during this round.

Blanco-Sweet Pea is really loving this chapter. She liked that they stressed to her the importance of academics and she had a great conversation with her rusher.

New Braunfels-Again, nice conversations and she enjoyed her visit here.

Kerrville-Again, she really likes this house. She felt the rusher was really trying to sell her on this particular chapter. She let Sweet Pea know that they head great things in store for skit night and she was bumped to the President and they had a good conversation.

Llano-She really liked the philanthropy here also, but felt the conversation was more about her rusher talking about life at UT than trying to get to know her.

Leakey-She really liked how the rusher explained their philanthropy. Sweet Pea felt that her rusher was focused on the same questions of round one. She didn’t think she progressed here like she did with the other houses.

Sweet Pea was really happy after today. She had to rank her bottom two and she ranked Leaky & Llano.

She said if she had to pick one of the other six as “the one” she could not do this at this point. She is glad that recruitment is a mutual selection process because she wants the computer to do the selecting! She said she is hoping for a party schedule tomorrow, but knows big cuts are coming. She knows it only takes one. She said she is looking for a home that balances academics, the philanthropy and social activities. She has heard how some chapters do this via her conversations, and is looking forward to getting to know the other chapter’s stance on this balance. At this point she does not have a front runner, which she is happy about because she will be grateful for any house on her party list, even Leaky & Llano. She recognizes that given more time, and meeting different people, she can change her perception at any of the houses!

They have moved convocation up to 2:00 tomorrow…so until then….Sweet Dreams UT PNMs!

[carnation]

Okay, I'll go for Wimberley, then! Wimberley is the home of the (yeaaa!) fabulous Rocky River Ranch!