What’s the backup plan for recruitment in August?

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I watched the recruitment info video for my alma mater, Univ. of Arizona, since they are moving to virtual. Actually it's partial virtual, partial 'live' (still virtual, but not recorded) and then 'live" which is a creative mix. (Thanks, Arizona-AlphaXi for posting!)

The first round is interesting...PNM's will watch pre-recorded videos produced by each chapter about themselves, then make their selections to go from 12 hours to 9. Then, if I understood it correctly, the next round will be PNM's guided by their rush counselors through 'live' yet virtual parties. It sounded like Round 3 (sisterhood) will be in person followed by Pref and then Bid Day of course, all in person. They're spreading it over a couple of weekends.

The first round will be interesting and very dependent, I think, on how creative and "real" (i.e., not the dazzling sizzle reels we've all seen) a chapter will be. Best of all worlds is if Panhellenic hires one production company to produce the videos for all chapters to ensure sameness of quality and format.

It will be interesting to see how things sort out for rushes versus traditional rush - as someone else posted, this is a generation that lives so much virtually that it could be more seamless than we think; one of my chapter sisters has a daughter in a chapter there so I'll look forward to hear that side of the experience.