University of Alabama NPC recruitment 2019 thread

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Originally Posted by 33girl

I’ve never been a fan of the “open invite” sort of COB parties because it really does put the chapter over a barrel, but at a huge school some women will never get reached any other way.

When I worked with chapters on informal recruitment efforts, the first thing I asked was "What have you tried?"

Almost always, the first thing out of the recruitment chair's mouth was "Well we made a FB invite and invited all the women in the freshmen dorms."

Or "we put flyers in all freshmen mailboxes."

Stop there because that is probably why things aren't going well. Over-inviting actually does not help you. At all. It has the opposite effect.

It was hard at times for chapters to do the work of coming up with some individuals they know who are unaffiliated and may be of interest to them, but it is worth it to be able to personally invite those say, 7 women. It pays off in the long run because people want to feel special. Not like they are at a cattle call in which every sophomore or every freshman is invited.