Please help!

[ChioLu]

Also, do you have a recruitment resume yet?
Here's an example:
http://www.austinpanhellenic.org/joi...ty-resume.html
Create one & give/email it to alumnae who can write you a rec.
Also, check the Ole Miss recruitment thread -- there are some great tips on finding recs.

If you are contacting the individual alumnae associations, many will have websites. CALL the local contact person - that group may have an alumna who goes to your church, knows 1 of your high school teachers or college professors, has a connection to your parent - and can write you a personnel recommendation.

Post that you are going thru Recruitment at UT on Facebook and looking for alumnae recommendations. List every GLO (Greek letter organization). From 6 degrees of separation, you'll be able to find sorority alumnae!

[DGTess]

When I lived a few miles from UTSA campus, I was a member of the San Antonio alumnae group.

Many of the women in that group are UT alumnae, and they're always welcome to meeting women who are interested in sorority life. Check similar pages for the other groups; you may know some of the women who are members.

Many of the women participate in the San Antonio Panhellenic information event, too. It's been years, my daughter wasn't interested, and I never learned about competitive rushes, so I didn't pay much attention, but I know that events are held there in the Spring.

[delaryn13]

ChioLu- Yes ma'am I have! I have rec packets w/ my resume, transcripts, and picture all ready to go

[delaryn13]

Also, could y'all help with my questions on this thread:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=140075

[iamamom]

I am a total novice, but I'll tell you how my daughter and I have been going at this, and maybe something will help.

Do you have high school friends in sororities that are on facebook? My d messaged some girls she knew in hs that are a few years older who she could tell were in sororities and asked them if they knew any alums who could help her. She also asked them if they had any local people write them.

How about posting on facebook that you want to go through recruitment could anyone help finding people in the following sororities: xyz, abc, etc.

Do you have any friends who work at: Lily, JCrew, Anthropologie - or any kind of boutique store where other sorority girls shop? My sis works at a Lily store and would ask regular women shoppers if they were in sororities and chatted them up about rec's and we got an offer that way.

Do you have aunts, cousins, etc who would help you find people? Friends of theirs or coworkers, neighbors, etc.

You know how people will greet you - hello, how are you? Bring it up! Bring it up to everyone. Be the person everyone knows is looking for recs.

It came to the point where we would be asking every single person if they were or knew anyone in a sorority. We'd ask the grocery store cashier, the dry cleaners, people standing in line around us. Now is not the time to hide your light under a bushel.

Up north the rec thing is virtually unknown so we've been educating them on it. At least in TX people will get it.

And finally, anytime anyone was willing to write a rec they were asked if they knew of anyone else that could help.

It has just about become a group effort amongst friends and family. And it actually has made it kind of fun! Everyone would cheer and get excited and get competitive about finding help.

We're hunting our final sorority and if we can't find someone in it my d will be emailing their national headquarters by mid-April to see if they could put her in touch with someone in our area.

[delaryn13]

Thetalady- See I'm getting two different opinions on the whole asking strangers for recs thing!

[Titchou]

You aren't up north like she is. You should be able to ride down the road in San Antonio and hit a member of every group at UT. There are only 14 on campus. That isn't that many. Keep knocking it out and be sure to ask each person who can do a rec if they know anyone in the other groups. Have you done that?

[iamamom]

Not everyone is a stranger to us delaryn - I consider it more like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Okay, so there is a difference, too, between ASKING a stranger, and having a friendly conversation with a stranger in which you mention recruitment.

If I was shopping and chatting with a sales associate and she asked me for a rec, I'd be like WTF, but if she mentioned recruitment, I might be like "oh, do you have a rec for my group? Maybe I can help you find one."

[delaryn13]

Okay, I get it! Thanks everyone, y'all are being so helpful!

[FSUZeta]

From the PASA website:

RECRUITMENT

The Panhellenic Association of San Antonio can assist you with the recruitment process. Your registration form and photos will be forwarded to the recruitment chairs within each alumnae sorority in the Panhellenic Association of San Antonio. Please remember that you must register for recruitment at the college you plan to attend. Filling out the Panhellenic Association Registration Form does not register you for college recruitment, nor does it guarantee you placement in a sorority or a reference for a particular sorority.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR PASA IS MAY 2, 2014

I am sure that you already saw this on the Panhellenic Association of San Antonio website, but I wanted to make sure. I did not include the information on the two recruitment forums they held, since they have already happened. You did say that you had attended one of them, right?

[delaryn13]

FSUZeta- Yes I attended the second forum & I have registered with PASA, but they have not responded.

[Sciencewoman]

They may be waiting until after the May 2 deadline, as opposed to sending individual packets to groups as they come in.

[delaryn13]

Maybe... They said they would respond within 5 days though