UF Rush

[ROWDYsister]

Originally posted by curlygirly
The thing on Norman Field....is that when the girls have to wake up super early in the morning? I remember hearing something about that last year.

aahhh....I'm so excited now!! ROWDYsister and SKchickie...it's all your fault! hehe Now...are there 'local' sororities at UF? How do they recruit?

No, not too many girls get offered no bids, so don't even think about it!

It's great that you're blaming us for getting you psyched instead of scaring you. If we were scaring you, I'd have to stop posting til after recruitment was over.

Spring rush isn't really rush in the traditional sense. We now have Panhellenic Preview, which is when all the sororities showcase themselves...I think it's either all together at the same place, or they invite girls to check out the houses? I don't know how it works, but it's sort of like a "Hey, check us out and think about us when fall rolls around."

But the thing is, I think only two houses actually offer bids in the spring. But then they have spring pledge classes and spring initiation, so in that sense it's like fall. But not every one does it...so don't pin your hopes on that. There's a better chance you'll get into a house you click with if you give it your all in the fall.

[ROWDYsister]

I forgot to mention: All UF sororities are national Panhellenic sororities, Curlygirly.

Before GC I didn't even know local organizations existed.

And all the fraternities are members of IFC, too.

[curlygirly]

I remember seeing ads for the Panhellenic Preview....I also saw some of the girls wearing the shirts (which were super adorable by the way!) My roommate and I had planned on attending, but I remember that night there was a fire drill in Beaty (my dorm) that lasted like an hour, and I hadn't finished my paper (due the next day...as usual!) But anyway, we figured that we were going to rush in the fall anyway......

Was that where they "Recruited" girls for spring? Either way, I just remember the event because of the adorable shirts!!!

[UFgirl]

Hey ladies! I am so excited that so many of you are going to go through recruitment in a couple of weeks!! I am super excited myself because this will be the first time that I'll be a rusher and not a rushee!!

I'm also super excited about work week all next week. As the name says, it will be a lot of work, but I'm sure I'll love it 'cause I love rush!

For all PNM's:
UF Recruitment is really exhausting, physically and emotionally. Just make sure to keep an open mind, get lots of sleep, and stay hydrated! When they offer you water at the houses, take it! Not only will it keep you from losing your voice the next day, it will also give you something to do with your hands if you're kinda nervous!!

Toodles

[UFKappa]

Wow! Less than fourteen days left until the opening of UF Recruitment! The more I sit here and read your replies, the more excited I get! As I've mentioned in another post I'm on Recruitment Exec this year and while I've experienced recruitment as both a potential member and as a chapter member I'm more excited than ever to actually be a part of making recruitment happen and being a Pi Chi! I wanted to shed a little bit of light on the whole switch from Rho Chi to Pi Chi...
Recruitment Exec was approached this year by our dean who informed us that we were one of a growing minority of schools that had not changed our name from Rho Chi's to Pi Chi's. The name Rho Chi was never even official and had simply become a shortcut for saying "Recruitment Counselors." It wasn't until we started actually printing Rho Chi all over shirts and bags that the actual Rho Chi fraternity national headquarters wrote to National Panhellenic and asked colleges to change the name. So we, as UF Panhellenic, really had no choice in the matter and it was either this year or next that the change would come.
Just as a side note...some of the other names that we considered were Rho Gams(Recruitment Guides- this is the one that FSU uses I believe)and Pi Rho Chis(Panhellenic Recruitment Counselors). In the end, we just thought that Pi Chis was the shortest and sweetest!

[EM1843]

Just wanted to wish all of you good luck...especially to my favorite sorority...
And to all the PMNs I can't wait to watch you all run across Norman Field...
GO GATORS!

[UF56]

Maybe all of the UF girls on this board can help me out. I have always heard and have read in past threads that UF usually has about 1200 girls that rush, based on the Recruitment website there are only around 950 registered is that the normal amount who rush. I was thinking if there are less girls rushing that the cuts that were described in last year's forum wouldnt be so severe, is this true or am I not looking at this right? Starting to get really nervous!!!!!!

[Angelic]

I was looking at the schedule on the UF recruitment website. I guess I am just retarded what is preliminary preference in the mornings of the second and third parties?

[ROWDYsister]

UF56, I heard that the number of PNMs registered this year is about the same as last year. I really don't know how many went through last year, though. Not sure about how the cutting works and what the numbers are, honestly. But don't think about it too much. Not being offered any bids is not a huge occurence.

Angelic, preliminary preferences are when the Pi Chis give the PNMs the list of who has let them go onto the next round, and then the PNMs pick which houses to go to later that day. Like if you have 12 houses on your list but there are only 10 parties you have to cut two. If you have 10 you go to all 10. If you have less than 10 you go to all of them.

[Angelic]

Thanks rowdy I figured it had to do something with invitations.