2011 recruitment bits and pieces

[FSUZeta]

good for you, crosscaravan!

[crosscaravan]

Haha! Thank you. I've been logging in and wanting to post that for days now, but I finally got the OK so I spammed it. Eeee.

Things are going really, really well. I hope everyone else is just as happy with their new members.

[HannahXO]

What I learned this year on the "other side" of recruitment:

PNMs, if you're interested, show it!!!! I met a girl during the round before preference, she was very nice and polite, but generally did not seem interested in going Chi O: she didn't ask any questions, and gave pretty minimal answers to my questions. She did not seem to want to open up. But we decided to invite her to pref anyway, and I wound up preffing her. About 15 minutes into the party, she started crying hysterically. I figured she was upset at having been cut elsewhere, but then she told me she was so glad to have found a sorority like chi omega where she felt at home and would be accepted for who she was etc and if she did get a bid she was so excited that we would be sisters. I was dumbfounded but incredibly touched!! I wish she had shown her interest earlier, I would have communicated that to my sisters before pref. So PNMs, you obvs shouldn't say "omggggg I love XYZ SOOO much!" at round 1, but asking questions and showing your excitement for sisterhood goes a long way in your recruitment. If we think you want to be here, we want to know that!

Rush Crushes: I didn't understand this concept. How can you fall in love with a girl after 10 minutes of conversation? But oh boy, it happens. There was one PNM whom my chapter LOVED, and on pref night we found out she had dropped and we were all crushed. PNMs, chapters are inviting you back because they want you to be there, especially by pref round. We see something in you that we love- nobody is forcing us to invite you back (usually). We genuinely really really want you there and when you drop out of recruitment it makes us sad Always always give chapters 2nd and 3rd chances. You might be surprised just how at home you feel when 100+ women are ecstatic to see you on our lawn for bid day!

[DubaiSis]

I'm hearing from other sources that cuts are being made based on the rushee's expressed interest. Other than the girls who are being outright cold, this seems kind of new to me. The chapters are trying to find the girls who want them right from the get-go. This is no time to play it cool! The trick is to find that balance between expressing interest and gushing. A simple, "I've really enjoyed being here today and hope to come back tomorrow" could go a lot further than you think! But make sure it's authentic.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I'm hearing from other sources that cuts are being made based on the rushee's expressed interest. Other than the girls who are being outright cold, this seems kind of new to me. The chapters are trying to find the girls who want them right from the get-go. This is no time to play it cool! The trick is to find that balance between expressing interest and gushing. A simple, "I've really enjoyed being here today and hope to come back tomorrow" could go a lot further than you think! But make sure it's authentic.

With RFM, the strongest recruiting chapters don't have invitations to waste on girls who may not rank them high enough.

Unfortunately, some of this is out of a PNM's control...if she went to X high school with all of the girls in ABC, XYZ and DEF may write her off too soon, even if she says she loves them.

[AGDLynn]

HannahXO, did she pledge?

I was excited because I thought that FINALLY someone from my hometown had pledged AGD because she suddenly became FB friends with some AGDs.

Good news....she pledged...Bad news, it wasn't AGD, lol.

(It was Phi Mu. The other hometown girl pledged XO but I figured that out from her FB profile pic,lol.)

[HannahXO]

Luckily, yes! But it would have been bad if she wasn't high enough on the bid list and I could have changed that if I had known she was so interested early on.

[Teazer_9009]

Throwing in update in for the University of Pittsburgh. Recruitment starts tomorrow and about 400 PNMs have registered. It's a record for Pitt and setting us up for an exciting week!

[LaneSig]

An article about North Carolina's 1st year using Upper Classman quota.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.ph..._upperclassmen

[drgnlady]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

An article about North Carolina's 1st year using Upper Classman quota.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.ph..._upperclassmen

What the article doesn't mention is that although more women signed up for recruitment in 2011 than 2010, quota went down from 50 to 49. Of those 49, at least 11 had to be upperclassmen which meant that UNC managed to place far less freshman in 2011 than in 2010.

[FSUZeta]

nice. thanks lanesig.

[ADPiTigergurl]

Just got back from bid day!!! my chapter took quota plus 6! giving us 29 beautiful new alphas

[scrapinfificat]

Originally Posted by ADPiTigergurl

Just got back from bid day!!! my chapter took quota plus 6! giving us 29 beautiful new alphas

Congratulations.

[KSUViolet06]

My alma mater had a great (and HUGE) recruitment this year. Quota of 47! My collegiate chapter held its first recruitment in their new house and pledged 40 women (and will likely COR to fill those extra spots within the next week or so.) So proud.

[chelsey]

Queens University of Charlotte had a successful recruitment with just over 50 women accepting bids to their 4 sorority chapters. Quota was set at 10 and all but one chapter reached quota.

We are very happy and proud of our NPC houses!!