Ole Miss Recruitment

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally Posted by kddani

Do they release a bid list? I'm curious as to where (if anywhere) the girl I wrote a rec for went. I've been out of town and haven't had a chance to ask, and her facebook hasn't been updated in about 2 weeks

They do not release the lists. Each chapter will usually have an announcement in the school paper with names. PM me the name and I'll see what I can find out.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by 80sAST

That's correct and the front of the shirts said GEAUX Kappa!!! Very Cute!!! The KDs party Hat banner and theme was cute too!

LOL...I would think GEAUX would be forbidden in Ole Miss territory since that's an LSU term. It's been co-opted for the Saint's, but in SEC world GEAUX is very LSU.

[ElieM]

I think the slogan should have read "Anchoring the row", but yes, I agree with you

[newgreekmommy]

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be on this page -- as an ecstatic Mom!

My daughter had an amazing, amazing rush! We really did everything we could to make it great -- but we are not from Mississippi, so we were very worried! We had several recs for each house and were fortunate to have Ole Miss recs for several houses. This was KEY! When she chose Ole Miss, she knew one girl in one sorority... that's it.

She had her top 6 for skit round and her top 3 for prefs! So many girls were not so fortunate. We just couldn't believe it. Each night we'd talk about how crazy it was that she was doing so great! We'd heard all the stories about how brutal Ole Miss Rush could be, and she saw evidence all around her.

She was blessed to pledge her top choice and to be in such a great sorority. Her friends from home also pledged their top houses... so to all the future out-of-state Ole Miss Moms, it is possible. Just be sure you have LOTS of recs for each house and do your best to find recs from Ole Miss alums.

And I know without a doubt that the late rush really helped my daughter and the other out-of-state girls. She was able to get to know more girls and see which houses she wanted to keep and which she wanted to cut.

She is so happy and we are so proud of her! She's now a DDD from Ole Miss!

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by newgreekmommy

She is so happy and we are so proud of her! She's now a DDD from Ole Miss!

It's always nice to hear positive stories come out of super competitive recruitments. And, of course, I'm biased to be extra glad it had a Tri Delta ending. We haven't had enough of those around here this year!

Congrats to you and your daughter. She's joining a wonderful organization.

[Always AlphaGam]

Originally Posted by newgreekmommy

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be on this page -- as an ecstatic Mom!

My daughter had an amazing, amazing rush! We really did everything we could to make it great -- but we are not from Mississippi, so we were very worried! We had several recs for each house and were fortunate to have Ole Miss recs for several houses. This was KEY! When she chose Ole Miss, she knew one girl in one sorority... that's it.

She had her top 6 for skit round and her top 3 for prefs! So many girls were not so fortunate. We just couldn't believe it. Each night we'd talk about how crazy it was that she was doing so great! We'd heard all the stories about how brutal Ole Miss Rush could be, and she saw evidence all around her.

She was blessed to pledge her top choice and to be in such a great sorority. Her friends from home also pledged their top houses... so to all the future out-of-state Ole Miss Moms, it is possible. Just be sure you have LOTS of recs for each house and do your best to find recs from Ole Miss alums.

And I know without a doubt that the late rush really helped my daughter and the other out-of-state girls. She was able to get to know more girls and see which houses she wanted to keep and which she wanted to cut.

She is so happy and we are so proud of her! She's now a DDD from Ole Miss!

QFP.

[FormerReb]

AAG, I heart you. A lot.

[chioalum]

Finally news from my rec girls. One is a Kappa Delta, one is a Kappa Kappa Gamma, one is a Kappa Alpha Theta and the other girl was dropped from recruitment. The girl who was dropped was a junior transfer. All of these girls were from out of state. Congratulations to all of the other PNM'S.

[Titchou]

Because NPC voted to change the terminology.....

[Bamamom13]

A neighbors daughter is a new Pi Phi at Ole Miss. Her mom said that her daughter was thrilled!

[NUBlue&Blue]

Kappa Delta

http://www.issuu.com/dailymississipp...10142011-small

And going back to a conversation last year about names, they have a Laken and a Larken in this new member class.

[newgreekmommy]

Originally Posted by NUBlue&Blue

And going back to a conversation last year about names, they have a Laken and a Larken in this new member class.

Did you see Pi Phi? I think I counted 6 SIX girls named Mackenzie. And there were still more Mackenzie's that pledged other houses.

[newgreekmommy]

I pulled this from the Ole Miss newspaper -- if anyone's interested:

Girls: 1215 registered for formal recruitment
1073 (88.3% received bids)
942 (77.5% received bids from their "first" choice)

(Interesting though - my daughter and her friends thought it was 1240 - they heard this number repeatedly - so maybe an error in the paper and then the percentages are lower?)

But, assuming the newspaper was correct, these numbers were helped by those houses that exceeded quota - some having as many as 131.

Quota was 117. (With 9 sororities, this says to me that Ole Miss does want to place as many girls as possible)


Boys: 1082 registered for formal recruitment (and it is formal!)
74.3% received bids
762 (70.4% received bids from their "first" choice)

Interesting info re the guys side of things: I have two friends with freshman boys at Ole Miss. They don't know each other. Each of their sons was given a bid (before formal recruitment started) from ABC (the same very large, national frat). Both bids were revoked -- on the last night of recruitment according to the moms. So neither pledged anywhere.

I don't know how guys' recruitment works totally, but I do know they went to all houses, ranked, etc, But, I wanted to share this story and point out their to show that the guys at Ole Miss have it tough, too. If they don't go visit during the summer and really network during the first month of school, it's really hard for them to get plugged in. This message really needs to get out.

And, to continue along the same lines (which I should probably just post on the Frat site), my brother-in-law, a KA from Clemson, was horrified to learn that his recommendation letter to the Bama KA house got there "too late". Even though they had formal rush, all the bids were really already given. My friend's son at UGA didn't get a bid pre-rush since he hadn't signed up yet. So he had to go through formal there and heard frat guys tell the guys "we only have 5 bids left". Luckily, this UGA boy had been going to summer parties and his house was holding a bid for him.

These guys around the south at least need to know that they need to work all summer!

[old ATO]

Originally Posted by newgreekmommy

But, assuming the newspaper was correct, these numbers were helped by those houses that exceeded quota - some having as many as 131.

Quota was 117. (With 9 sororities, this says to me that Ole Miss does want to place as many girls as possible)

I won't swear I'm 100% right on this but I don't think quota is set until the last round of parties. There are girls that are either cut completely out after first or second round OR choose to drop out after first or second round.

With quota addition, I believe a girl WILL get a bid as long as she got invited back somewhere for pref and didn't drop any sorority herself without having to (i.e.-you have to cut down to 6 for skit or 3 for pref so can't go back to 9 all the way through).

[Titchou]

Quota is set AFTER all bid cardsare signed and turned in.