Fall 2003 Recruitment Results! - Page 3

gphiangel624 · #1 09-29-2003, 09:15 PM

So less than 2 weeks until recruitment starts at UCR! I'm stoked because my girls are looking great- they're out on campus and around the community all the time, sporting letters and shirts, there were a TON of them at the Welcome Week block party (I think only 3 of six chapters had booths, all were next to each other, and there were a lot of PNMs around that area), and the freshman boys have been telling my friends who are RAs/fraternity boys/GDIs that Gamma Phi is the chapter all the freshman girls are talking about... So I'm stoked for rush to start so I can see it again from another angle!

Sorry, just got a little excited there! :-)

AAgammagirl · #2 10-03-2003, 09:22 AM

hey everyone-
i have some Canadian FR news to report.
UWO (Alpha Omega)- 11
University of Toronto (Alpha Alpha)- 7 (quota)
i haven't heard how UBC did (and i think they're done now) or McGill (not sure when FR is for them).
i'm so glad to hear that all of our chapters are doing well!!

GeekyPenguin · #3 10-03-2003, 09:36 AM

Thanks for the Canadian results! I'm still waiting to hear on the UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh chapters.

AAgammagirl · #4 10-10-2003, 12:06 AM

hey ladies-
UBC got 17 from FR (quota was 18)
i still haven't heard about Alpha Tau- McGill Univ.- Montreal, Quebec.
also, can you change Western Ontario to London, Ontario. People may better understand where the chapter is then.
oh- what do you guys think about the possible (but very unlikely) expansion at Ole Miss?
Do we only do 1 expansion/year? is that why we wouldn't go there? (of course b/c of the $$ too).

any other results? i wonder how the Beta chapter did? (U of Mich- Ann Arbor)

SmartBlondeGPhB · #5 10-10-2003, 01:15 AM

It sounds like Ole Miss is highly unlikey to be expanding, but money might be an issue for us expanding there. The amount of local alumnae support would be another. At a school like Ole Miss which is SO heaped in southern Greek tradition, we would definitely have our work cut out for us and it would be an uphill battle from day one.

As far as I know there is not any rule that says only one expansion per year. It should all just depend on the school in question.

GeekyPenguin · #6 10-10-2003, 01:22 AM

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Originally posted by SmartBlondeGPhB
As far as I know there is not any rule that says only one expansion per year. It should all just depend on the school in question.

Right - expanding at two Wisconsin state schools would be easy. Expanding in Texas and South Carolina at the same time would not be. I know "back in the day" when we chartered, there were several chapters that chartered within a year of each other.

gphiangel624 · #7 10-12-2003, 11:14 PM

Hey guys!

Recruitment has finally started at UC Riverside. Here's the info as of today (sorry I haven't posted earlier, but my home computer is down so I'm using my best friend's):

6 sororities:
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Alpha Chi Omega
Delta Gamma
Sigma Kappa

Total is 70, most chapters are around 40-50 right now.

Recruitment Schedule:
Open House- Saturday, Oct.11 (PNMs go to 6 houses)
Philanthropy Day- Sunday, Oct.12 (PNMs go to max of 4 houses)
Preference Night- Monday, Oct. 13 (PNMs go to max of 2 houses)
Bid Day- Tuesday, Oct.14

Tentatively, quota is 29. Panhellenic hasn't decided if that's definite yet, but it will be in the high-20s. 192 PNMs applied for rush, about 10 have dropped so far.

On a chapter note, the Gamma Phis look awesome! Our girls have been working so hard and the rooms have looked amazing for both Open House and Phil. Day so far! Out of about 150 invites, we had arund 140 girls visit the houses today (about 5-6 had church-related stuff and couldn't make it today, will probably go to Pref).

I'll let you guys know how things go!

Carol

GeekyPenguin · #8 10-13-2003, 12:06 AM

Good luck to your chapter, Carol! Are you helping out with recruitment?

Also, on a slight tangent - the other day I was watching the Travel Channel and they went to Riverside and all I could think of was your cheer "I'm a little Gamma Phi, Delta Lambda, Riverside!"

gphiangel624 · #9 10-14-2003, 01:29 AM

Kathleen, why on earth would the travel channel want to go to Riverside?! jk Funny that you thought of that though...

Yeah, I'm helping with recruitment and it's a lot of fun. Tonight was Pref Night and we had quite a bit of alum support, so it was nice. We had a 68% return rate for Pref night (the usual), and about 20 girls in each party (there are 3 parties, but the PNMs only go to two... we do it because of fire hazard reasons). A lot of the PNMs left with teary eyes and they were extremely touched with the ceremony which went well in each party. One girl told her recruitment counselors that she messed up on her ranking card this morning and didn't mean to regret Gamma Phi, so she was in tears outside during the party and her best friend was inside the party, bawling as well. I guess she missed one of her parties because of it, but is most likely not going to sign a pref card at all in case we COB.

Quota has been set at 23 as of tonight, but who knows if they'll change it again. They always do stuff like that. My former boss is the "Greek advisor" and asked me tonight if I'd like to run recruitment next year. I told him I'd think about it- that's a huge responsibility.

Wish the girls luck! Bid Day is tomorrow!

Carol

gphiangel624 · #10 10-14-2003, 03:48 AM

Just to add, I found out the results at the University of California, Irvine tonight (if you'd like to post them Kathleen!).

The Delta Eta chapter took 29 new members, and quota was 29. Yay- we did it again!

gphiangel624 · #11 10-15-2003, 02:30 AM

The results are in!!! Delta Lambda at UC Riverside took 27 new members tonight! Quota was 23, so we got 4 over, including 2 legacies (and one sort of legacy- her cousin is a Gamma Phi)! Five of the six chapters took quota, four going over quota, which was awesome. There were a few kinks, a few misunderstandings (mostly girls that "didn't sign their pref cards right," so they say), but we have 27 incredible (and beautiful!) new girls!!!!

SmartBlondeGPhB · #12 10-15-2003, 11:49 AM

Congratulations!

GeekyPenguin · #13 10-21-2003, 10:19 PM

I unstuck this post since Fall Recruitment is over pretty much everywhere.

Congrats to all our chapters on an awesome job! I can't wait until all our new moonbabies get initiated!

Sprinkles · #14 11-03-2003, 01:29 PM

Ah, congrats everyone!

We here at the ET chapter at the University of Rochester currently have 2 new members, but two high quality women! We're very excited about it. Fall rush is informal, and our formal recruitment comes up in January next year, so wish us luck! We need a (large) solid class next semester to get rid of extra stress on the sisters and chapter as a whole.

-Laura

GeekyPenguin · #15 11-05-2003, 08:54 PM

Gamma Omega just initiated all seven wonderful ladies and I was there!!! It was fabulous to have retention like that - it's a big issue on that campus!