The University of Texas Austin-A Hill Country Recruitment!

[lirvin10]

Originally Posted by Ladybugmom

Yeah! I lover your code names!! Good luck to your daughter and to you as the mom..I was there last year and it was a real roller coaster!! I just left Austin yesterday and it was hot, hot, hot!! make sure your daughter has one of those battey operated fans..it will come in handy!!

My daughter is going through rush at UT (I left yesterday) and we looked for a fan like that, but couldn't find one. Any suggestions?

Thanks and best of lucks to all the PNM's and their moms!

[Ladybugmom]

I bought my daughter's at CVS on the drag but it was the last one..Everyone caught on that they needed one after the first day..Good luck in finding one..it really came in handy! Good luck to your daughter also!!

[Ladybugmom]

Originally Posted by lirvin10

As a Garner fan, I have to vote for Leakey!!!

Does anyone have an idea of how many girls will actually get a spot? Thanks for all this great info!

They dont have a set number of girls that will get a spot..it is based on how many attend preference parties on the last night. For example..(and this is very simplified and might not be 100% correct) if there are 10 chapters and 1000 girls are still in the running on preference night, then each chapter can extend 100 bids. Last year the quota was around 52. It will hopefully be higher this year because more girls are going through recruitment. It really depends on how many drop out before pref...in a perfect world, none would drop out. I hope this makes sense! Right now there are 13 Chapters and 1198 girls so if no one dropped out, each pledge class would be around 92..

[Eightisgreat]

I think the number is 1098...which like LBM said in the perfect world would be 84. Not sure what "percent" drop or are released prior to them coming up with quota but I bet quota is higher this year!

[Ladybugmom]

LOL..I added 100...thanks eightisgreat!!

[Eightisgreat]

^^^didn't want to make the day any harder on the actives than it had to be....

[Ladybugmom]

Ha Ha..Im sure my daughter will be fried tonite after 17 parties..not sure if I want to talk to her or not..lol..Hope all is going well with your daughter eightisgreat!!

[Eightisgreat]

I don't expect to hear from her until late this evening but I am sure she is doing fine! She was super excited to begin the process. Do you know if UT uses RFM for their quota system? The chapter I used to help with (obviously not UT) used it and I know the methology pretty well...but I guess I never paid attention if UT uses it...I am guessing yes, but that would be just a guess.

[DubaiSis]

Based on a lot of conversations here on GC, I don't know of any medium or larger sized Greek system that doesn't use RFM. Dealing with rush matching by hand is SOOOOO last century.

[Just interested]

I was told the last time that many went through at UT they had summer town rush and only invitational parties. Wow, are they having to make some major adjustments for the crowd.

[KSUViolet06]

Non-RFM schools are few and far between and are typically VERY small (like 3 sororities or fewer.) The vast majority (including UT and all other competitive recruitments) are RFM now.

[txmomsecgrad]

heard quota could be around 60 per house we shall see

[in_a_mad_rush]

Kerrville-Liked the girl and the conversation flowed well. She was introduced to the Chapter President and the Vice President of Recruitment and the rusher told her she hoped to see her tomorrow.


Burnet-The girl was really nice but the conversation felt very forced.

Leaky-was rushed by two girls. She didn’t care for the first girl but really liked the second girl. She liked this house but was not sure she loved it.


Blanco-She really liked this house! She really liked the girl she talked to. She felt at home there and the conversation was easy. She was introduced to the VP of recruitment here.


Boerne-She really liked this house. It was really loud here and she had a really hard time hearing her rusher and she felt the whole situation was really crazy there. She hopes she gets another opportunity here to actually get to hear what the girls are saying. She says this was the only house where noise was an issue.


Dripping Springs-She really liked this house. The rusher here was just really easy going. She really hopes she goes back here.


Fredericksburg-She really, really, liked this house. She felt this girl was just fun. The conversation was more pop culture based and a nice break from “what’s your major?”


New Braunfels-She really loves this house. She spoke with two girls here and she thought the conversation flowed really well here. She is not sure this would ultimately be the house for her, but she is excited about the chance to go back.


Wimberley-This was her absolute favorite of the day. She was rushed by one girl but was introduced to three other girls. She felt these girls really showed her what sisterhood was all about and is praying they are on her party list tomorrow. This is the front runner.


Luckenbach-She really felt that the second you walked in you could tell who was on the bid list and who wasn’t. She spoke with someone for a few minutes and then she was introduced to so many people and it was just as if they were burning time and they treated everyone the same way but she just felt they didn’t want to get to know anyone but it was just a big social party…very awkward.


Gruene-She really liked this house and her rusher was sweet and nice and she got introduced to her rusher’s big and she felt once the big came in, although Sweet Pea was still very much part of the conversation, she just felt like it was awkward.


Llano-The girl she talked to was nice but she thought the conversation was forced and she was not comfortable there.


Horseshoe Bay-The rusher was really nice but she was felt the rusher was really showing her tiredness. (it was the rusher’s 17th party…I’d be tired too) Sweet Pea felt she was holding up the conversation.

She had to rank their bottom three and they were:
Burnet
Luckenbach
Llano

Convocation is scheduled @ 3:00 but she said they will not get their invite list until 3:30 tomorrow. First party of round 2 is at 4:30.

[in_a_mad_rush]

Hi!

Ok so the invite list for Round 2 is out and the max invites were 10 and she received 8, with her mental top 3 being included!! (optimistic hip hip horay!): My only question that did not get answered before she had to go is why she has less than 5 parties today, but more than five tomorrow. The guidelines originally said parties would be 5 & 5 over two days and I can only speculate that because of the larger numbers maybe they are doing 6 & 6 or 7 & 7 to accommodate the larger numbers. She did say tomorrow's parties were from 8:00-2:30 and originally they were scheduled from 9:00-2:05.

So anyway....she is returning to:

Gruene
Wimberely
Dripping Springs
Blanco
New Braunfels
Kerrville
Llano
Leakey

[Wary]

Yay, Dripping Springs!