University of Alabama NPC recruitment 2019 thread

[33girl]

Every chapter of every sorority should have a list on hand at all times of unaffiliated women who might be interested in membership. This includes the chapters that have made quota and been at total every year since Lincoln was in office. Life is uncertain and you never know when or why your chapter might take a membership hit.

[Titchou]

I always told my folks to personally invite them AND to offer to pick them up and bring them to the event. That's how you actually get them there.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

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.

Yes!! A personal invitation will always yield better results than a impersonal flyer or FB post.

[SigmaCat]

Yeah, we didn't do any cattle call events and it worked in our favor. COBing friends and acquaintances - people you already know - is a no-brainer. It's more encouraging because the invitations are personal, the people who show up are interested in being there from the jump (rather than being shuttled through the formal recruitment assembly line because they have to to get to their "top houses"), and your bid acceptance rate is usually really good because of it.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by DGTess

I hope you keep us updated with everything. This experience is foreign to me. Absolutely foreign. Decorating rooms?? SEC rush?? Emphasis on "cute"?? Staying while daughter go through???

I keep reading these stories. It's like a fantasy novel to me - a completely different world from what I know. Maybe if I read enough of them over the next 100 or so years I'll understand!

Thank you.

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Tess, I went to school there back when bell bottom jeans were first popular, and it's a foreign country to me now. We all thought the moms who stayed for the week were literally crazy. Coordinated and decorated dorms - all that stuff wasn't even on the market. And your parents coming for bid day? Unfathomable. Who would want their parents there?

I was barely BORN when bell bottom jeans were the rage and I am with you 100% on all of that. Could not agree more on why would anyone *want* their parents there! We finally escaped the nest and were ready to be seen as independent and grown up. We would have been mortified had mom showed up at all. My parents didn't even help me move in. I just packed the car and headed off to school.

Though not Alabama it was state of Texas. And Lord knows we Texans invented crazy. Yet, that would have been BEYOND crazy even for us.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Every chapter of every sorority should have a list on hand at all times of unaffiliated women who might be interested in membership. This includes the chapters that have made quota and been at total every year since Lincoln was in office. Life is uncertain and you never know when or why your chapter might take a membership hit.

This, too.

When Panhellenic started using tiered total (basically total that adjusts by the semester instead of staying same all year after everyone reaches it in Fall FR), many chapters had open spots in the spring who had never had them before.

It was a real stretch to get them to see that this is why you should always be networking with unaffiliated women, hanging out with them, holding events every so often that unaffiliated women can come to (your philanthropy, service events, etc. should not always be (example) ASAs only) and keeping contact with the women who come. That way when you find that you have room in spring for 5 more women - boom. You can invite the 5 you already know to hang out and you're not doing BIG EVENTS to draw in unaffilaited women you've never met. (when you only have 5 spots to start with.)

Being at total doesn't mean you just stop interacting with unaffiliated women. You continue to network even if you can't give out bids right now.

[BossLadyAKA]

Did we ever hear how these girls did/where they ended up?

Originally Posted by DistantXOcousin

The grade cuts were HUGE in Starling's Rho Chi group, 5 girls are returning with 1 house, 2 were cut entirely, and 10 are returning to under 5 houses.

The girls all had over a 3.9 and they ranked their legacy houses high, only 2 have been asked back.

From what I've heard, Sigma Kappa is making harsh cuts and a lot of girls were expecting to go in and have them as a "back up", but they know how to work recruitment well and theyre doing a beautiful job.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by BossLadyAKA

Did we ever hear how these girls did/where they ended up?

Nope.

[navane]

Originally Posted by DistantXOCousin

Last Activity: 08-15-2019 05:05 AM

She hasn't logged back in since her last post. I hope everything is ok.

[What?]

Originally Posted by navane

She hasn't logged back in since her last post. I hope everything is ok.

Her story reminded me of a poster from last year who claimed to have like 17 kids, 2 of whom were twins (one at Bama, on in the Pacific Northwest) going through recruitment having vastly different experiences...

Am I the only one who saw similarities?

[ZTA72]

Originally Posted by What?

Her story reminded me of a poster from last year who claimed to have like 17 kids, 2 of whom were twins (one at Bama, on in the Pacific Northwest) going through recruitment having vastly different experiences...

Am I the only one who saw similarities?

No, you are not alone. The thought crossed my mind as well.

[UVASquirrel]

Originally Posted by What?

Her story reminded me of a poster from last year who claimed to have like 17 kids, 2 of whom were twins (one at Bama, on in the Pacific Northwest) going through recruitment having vastly different experiences...

Am I the only one who saw similarities?

Ooohhh...I remember her. Wasn't she like the stepmom to one of them and the crazy mom showed up to try and interfere? When I found out it was all fiction, I remember thinking it was too bad none of it was real because I thought her writing was hilarious. I mean, it seemed like it was one of those "You can't make this stuff up" stories it was so crazy.

[What?]

Same one, totally forgot about the bio-mom drama- was that an attempt to cover up an anti-Asian comment that she attributed to one of the PNMs?

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by What?

Same one, totally forgot about the bio-mom drama- was that an attempt to cover up an anti-Asian comment that she attributed to one of the PNMs?

You mean the PNM who said a certain chapter was "too Asian" and then turned out to be Asian herself?