Hey guys, Sorry I'm late with an update but between recruitment, work and celebrating my Christmas it's been a pretty crazy time for me.
Just to back track a bit. Sororities and PNMS all returned to campus by Sunday night/Monday morning. My girls had skit practice and other workshops on Sunday night and it was revealed that the count for recruitment was up from the low sixties to the low nineties. Everyone was excited as this was at least close to the same amount as the past 3 years. I would love to see us get up to at least 100-120, Although with the size of our chapter rooms they would probably have to add more rounds. The girls were really excited although there still is a larger amount of juniors and sophmores going through and we don't get to have a separate upper classmen quota. It's not hard to get a bid as an upperclassmen at my school but it makes it harder just because with our total being so low and most people not having as many spots in the fall it's harder to build up a class if you don't bid enough freshman.
Monday consisted of workshops where we explained the process behind recruitment and why it's important to really get to know the girls and not make too much small talk because then you'll end the round and realize you have no idea if the PNM is really interested. The girls asked a lot of good questions. One person was worried that she was a bad judge of character in that she may really like a girl and it could color her from realizing that the girl had absolutely no interest in us. Another girl was concerned about the grey area between first meeting a PNM and segueing into asking them more focused questions.
My sorority is lucky in that we still have to release lower amounts of girls with the release figures due to previous years of bad returns. However, they have been consistently making quota and even having quota additions that one day that will change and I was encouraging them to not wait for the day where they come in and realize they have to release more girls than they thought and they weren't prepared.
There is a tendency at my campus to treat recruitment like the white elephant in the room in that everyone knows why everyone else is there but there's a lot of reluctance to ask the more in-depth questions which can result in some broken hearts on both sides. We also talked about what to do if a girls starts talking about any forbidden topics by figuring out if she's trying to ask an appropriate question but doesn't really know how to word it?
Tuesday was Open House which consists of seven rounds. Everything seemed to go smoothly and the girls were all really excited. A Few girls dropped before hand but even more joined so we have a current total of 94 going through recruitment. There was one mix up where a pnm dropped and we weren't told so the sister who was supposed to meet her got someone else's pnm and there was a bit of confusion but it worked out well, especially since this is an early round and not like pref or anything. Also one of our girls was waiting to pick up her PNM as she walked in but was waiting behind girls who were going to rotate in later. After she realized the line wasn't moving she kinda busted through to grab her PNM but as this sister is pretty tall I'm sure it probably startled the girl a bit to see someone much taller than her basically leaping towards her.
Wednesday and Today are Philantrophy rounds. We're really empathizing our new connection with the confidence coaliton by building picture cubes with empowering messages for our girl scout troop. We also have a short video which I love, that involves a lot of great quotes and inspirational messages based on women achieving whatever they want. After Tonight is skit which is when the PNMS can only go back to four houses.
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