Kansas recruitment

[sarahsmilehawk]

Originally Posted by azureblue

Maybe you could wear a pair of comfy flip flops between events and then put on your fancy shoes for the actual event?

This is what I recommend. I clearly remember seeing huge piles of flip flops outside the houses as the rounds continued and things got more formal.

[sarahsmilehawk]

I just heard KU has more girls going through recruitment than expected. My guess is that this will make recruitment a little more competitive than before, at least in the sense that it will be tougher for PNMs to stand out from the crowd.

[osheatunes]

lol, I think KU in general is having more freshmen then expected this year; I heard that there is even going to be temporary housing for the people who were late on Res Hall Contracts b/c they're already so full o.0

I'm so glad I asked about all this stuff...it's helped ALOT. Now I'll be able to go into recruitment feeling much more confident about what to do during the week.

Thanks so much everyone! : )

[wildcatfan]

I called Greek affairs at both KU and K-State today. KU anticipates about 860 girls for recruitment and K-State about 635. It's not 1500+ like at Alabama , but it's a big year for us!!

[sarahsmilehawk]

Recruitment starts tomorrow at KU!

Last I heard, there are 904 girls going through. There were about 600 last year.

[ztafromuk]

TWO DAYS between pref and bid day? That's just mean to the PNMs.

[baci]

The strong and determined will survive!

[wildcatfan]

Kansas State's first open house parties should be underway right about. . . now!! I talked to my daughter (late) last night--her first year on the "inside"--and they are pumped, ready, and excited!!

KU starts its first invitational rounds today--Philanthropy day.

Good luck to all!

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by wildcatfan

I called Greek affairs at both KU and K-State today. KU anticipates about 860 girls for recruitment and K-State about 635. It's not 1500+ like at Alabama , but it's a big year for us!!

It must be a trend in the Big XII schools. I talked to my coworker who's daughter is going through Recruitment at Iowa State and she said they have almost 500 PNMs going through there. That is a *HUGE* jump; I think last year the number was closer to 300-350. They had to add on extra parties to the days to help accommodate the increase in PNMs.

[wildcatfan]

K-State had prefs yesterday and handed out bids last night. My daughter emailed, and hopefully she was coherent at 2:30 AM when she wrote it!! She was thrilled to announce that the K-State Thetas pledged 47 awesome new members!! She was so excited (and exhausted!) I don't know what quota was, but last year it was 41 so this is pretty huge! Or as my daughter said, "Isn't that a crazy ton?" (Back in my day, I had a big pledge class at 28! The years after me were 23 and 25.)

[azureblue]

Quota at Kansas State was 47. Alpha Delta Pi has 48 new Alphas!

[nwADPi]

I'm a little late, but one of my best friends got her bid from ADPi at k-state!!! She was extreamly excited (being a sophomre).

Congrats to all the chapters at K-state!

[wildcatfan]

Originally Posted by azureblue

Quota at Kansas State was 47. Alpha Delta Pi has 48 new Alphas!

K-State Kappas also took 48.

[exlurker]

Update October 4, 2008: U of Kansas (KU) List of NPC New Members Fall 2008

The KU press release (looks like the initial sort offered is by Kansas counties and other states; this is what they're offering, folks, I'm just passing the info along):

http://www.news.ku.edu/2008/october/3/sorority08.shtml

Edited to add: It might be just the way it's displaying for me, but -- fair warning -- in a few places I checked names were occasionally duplicated. Yes, I don't know why.

[wildcatfan]

Using exlurker's link, I added up the following tallies for KU recruitment. I took out the duplicate names (hopefully I caught them all), but my total still adds up to 638 despite the article saying that 611 pledged. Also, the numbers I got for ADPi and SigKap were 3 and 4 higher than reported on irishpipes' thread. I'm not going to recount, but if someone wants to check go ahead!

FWIW:

Kappa Delta: 55
Delta Delta Delta: 55
Kappa Alpha Theta: 57
Pi Beta Phi: 55
Kappa Kappa Gamma: 54
Alpha Gamma Delta: 29
Sigma Kappa: 56
Chi Omega: 52
Sigma Delta Tau: 22
Alpha Delta Pi: 46
Delta Gamma: 55
Gamma Phi Beta: 51
Alpha Chi Omega: 51

ETA: OK, so I did recount (twice) with these changes: Kappa Alpha Theta 54, Kappa Kappa Gamma 56, Alpha Delta Pi 47, Delta Gamma 54, Gamma Phi Beta 54. It was confusing sometimes as girls that evidently had divorced/separated parents were sometimes listed twice, once under each parent.