2011 recruitment bits and pieces

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

A more neutral/positive look at recruitment by a campus newspaper:

Sorority Recruitment has Record Numbers (TCU Daily Skiff)

I am confused by the writer's comments about the "optional parties." I think that she misunderstood the idea of having extra parties added to the day to spread out the number of PNMs in each one.

Much better article.

What is "pre-major"? Is that the new PC term for "undeclared"?

I agree, I think the writer was confused about the optional parties, but then the chapter president used the same term in her quote? That's where I got further confused...

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

Much better article.

What is "pre-major"? Is that the new PC term for "undeclared"?

I agree, I think the writer was confused about the optional parties, but then the chapter president used the same term in her quote? That's where I got further confused...

Yes, pre-major is TCU's term for undecided, and it dates back to at least 1991.

I noted the president used the term too, but was wondering if the writer mixed up the quote? That would then have led to her mixed up explantion in the article? Who knows?

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

Yes, pre-major is TCU's term for undecided, and it dates back to at least 1991.

Gotcha...just sounds like the writer left out a word (ie: was supposed to be "Pre-Med" or something).

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I noted the president used the term too, but was wondering if the writer mixed up the quote? That would then have led to her mixed up explantion in the article? Who knows?

I'm guessing that TCU Panhellenic had some "optional" time slots for parties in case they needed them due to large numbers. They ended up needing them, so that's probably what she's referring to & it just came out wrong. I know other schools do that "hold this time slot" plan, so that's why I'm guessing that. Either that, or she was flat-out misquoted.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

Much better article.

What is "pre-major"? Is that the new PC term for "undeclared"?

Pre-major is an undeclared major usually within a defined college or program. Someone could be pre-major health professions or pre-major College of Communications if they were accepted into that college but had not selected a specific program.

Schools do this because students change their majors a lot the first two years, and a lot of majors within a college might have the same course requirements at least for the freshman year. The college can have a counselor advise freshmen and then parcel them out to advising by faculty once they have a better idea of what they want to do.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by HQWest

The college can have a counselor advise freshmen and then parcel them out to advising by faculty once they have a better idea of what they want to do.

This seems like a great advising model.

Students usually end up with an adviser-change with each major-change. Depending on the number of changes a student goes through, that could lead to seriously inconsistent and, at times, non-existent advising. With the system you've described, students receive consistent counseling with smooth transitions between the two advisers.

/random advising tangent