University of Georgia Recruitment - Page 6

JohnsDGsweethrt · #1 05-27-2003, 03:40 PM

I was just shocked to see how cut throat UGA is! I had no idea that many girls went through! I can only imagine being a pnm. Can anyone explain their process to me?

trisigmaAtl · #2 05-27-2003, 04:05 PM

i'm also interested in UGA recruitment. my younger sister has a couple of friends going there in the fall who may rush. Also, which houses are the ones with high return rates and that have to let the most girls go? are there one or two of these houses or a bunch? i have no idea what it's like to have more than 50 girls rush.

bruinaphi · #3 05-27-2003, 04:21 PM

Recruitment release figures (i.e., how many PNMs a chapter must release in each round) are confidential. The numbers are *usually* based on three year averages of returns to the individual chapter.

GPhiBLtColonel · #4 05-27-2003, 04:35 PM

...I was chatting about the upcoming rush with some of our UGA Gamma Phis and they are expecting 1400 for rush in August

Only 8 houses made quota after bid day last year!

I cannot confirm, but heard that Phi Mu and ADPi -- perhaps because there are so many of their legacies who attend UGA? -- had to do major cuts last year...

UGA rush is not for the faint of heart!!!

OleMissGlitter · #5 05-28-2003, 01:11 PM

Interesting posts from UGA's rush last year. My friend's sister went through rush there 3 years ago, and she was a triple legacy at a particular house. They cut her, so she dropped out of rush and her mother and two sisters were furious. She had her grades, finances, apperance, personality, etc. I know here at Ole Miss it is the same way. By the way, Ole Miss has the largest Panhellenic based on number students in the USA! It is up to 33% of women are members of a sorority! That is awesome! We don't have nearly as many going through rush, just like 700 is around the average. However, because we only have 9 sororities, our quote is higher, around 85 or 90. This is great because it keeps our houses large and all of the houses average about 180 members. So that is cool. Well, I hope everyone has a great recruitment this FALL 2003!
PS When I went through rush at Ole Miss in 1996, they told us that "rush is not a guaranteed process." What craziness is that!

carnation · #6 05-28-2003, 04:03 PM

We have known loads of legacies who rushed at UGa. Not one made it into her legacy house.

MSKKG · #7 05-28-2003, 04:39 PM

One Kappa legacy from my hometown went to UGa and pledged Kappa. A Chi O legacy from my hometown went to UGa a couple of years before her and pledged Chi O. It can be done, but I'm sure it's very competitive!

VSUPhiMu · #8 05-28-2003, 06:15 PM

A friend of mine is a double legacy to Phi Mu. She was released two years in a row by Phi Mu at UGA. She was 6th in her class and was very active in high school. I can't think of any reason why she would have been released...It is just so hard because so many awesome girls go through there! I feel it for any girl who goes through at UGA because of the competitiveness.

MSKKG · #9 05-29-2003, 05:33 PM

What happened to your cousin?

UGAnchora · #10 05-29-2003, 06:23 PM

She was one of those who got invited back to the max. # each day- everyone loved her. She ended up having to choose between KD, which both her sisters were in, and A Chi O, which our grandmother and great-aunt were in (at UGA). She went KD. However, she is not staying at UGA. She is transferring to North Georgia, but they have a KD there.

AGDLynn · #11 05-29-2003, 09:14 PM

I looked on the www.uga.edu Panhellenic page and was also amused that they still use the terms "rush" and "rushee".

I figure they are in the midst of revising for Fall recruitment.

Good luck to UGA! Hope things go smoother than last year.

IheartAphi · #12 05-30-2003, 12:27 AM

I have a done of family that live in GA and a lot of sorority women. My cousin is graduating and going to Valdosta this year, hoping to transfer to UGA her sophomore year. Anyway, She is just going to rush and pledge at Valdosta. (her sister was a recent Phi Mu at Valdosta, just like VSUPhiMu)

I had a friend that was a Rho Chi this last year at UGA and she said it is brutal, She is a theta and was a double leg (She Rocks too). In her group, the ones that didnt get dropped at Pref, 5 suicided, and the others got their 2nd or third choice. I will try to find the email she sent to us detailing the experience.

My cousins and I have an Aunt that was a theta at UGA, but my PNM cousin doesnt want to risk going through rush and getting dropped because she was a sophomore. Also, I think she will fall in love with VSU and not transfer(her brother and nephew live in the town)

Its so personal in the South when chapters drop legacys. My ADpi Aunt wrote a letter to their internationals, complaing, when I was dropped after first round. At NCSU, my chapter and Sigma Kappa require legacies to automatically recieve a bid, unless they do not make grades or are absolutely horrible.

trisigmaAtl · #13 05-30-2003, 01:03 AM

If you read the panhellenic recruitment site that was previously linked, it mentions that "legacies are no more pressured to join thier legacy house than the house is to bid them" (insert a comparable synonem for pressured my quote is a paraphrase). Either way, it doesn't seem like there is as much emphasis on it as you would expect to see in a school like UGA (soooo many alums with disapointed daughters!!!)

AOIIalum · #14 05-30-2003, 07:50 AM

Hmm...I took that to mean that the sorority didn't have to take all of their legacies and not that it wasn't such a big deal. I think it's good to remind the PNMs that they aren't forced to choose only from their legacies either. It's always been my impression that many of the UGA sororities may have more legacies going through than quota, therefore they literally can't take all of them. Lets say that quota will be 48 this fall, and ABC, DE, FGH, NOP, and TU all have 75+ legacies going through each. I don't think that's too far fetched, either (southern belles, please weigh in here!) I believe these chapters are allowed a bit more leniency to cut legacies earlier than you may find on other campuses because of that. You may not see the 'courtesy' invite at schools like this, because I've heard of many multiple-legacy PNMs being cut early on. Regardless, if a legacy is invited to their Prefs then they still should be on the 1st bid list of most NPC groups.

It would be a shame if there were 20 non-legacy girls that XYZ just adored and they couldn't invite them back or bid them because they were forced to take only legacies. Then, imagine explaining to a family member "Legacy PNM was 54 on the list and we just didn't have room." Ouch.

Christin

Bama_Alumna · #15 05-30-2003, 09:25 AM

At Alabama, some of the older houses have many more legacies going through rush than they can accept. "Local" legacies, especially those whose sister or mother was a member of that particular chapter, have an advantage over those whose relatives were initiated elsewhere. Even better would be if your grandmothers (on both sides!), your mother, your aunts and your sisters were all members of that particular chapter.

Oh, and maybe your great-grandmother, too! Of course, that doesn't happen often... but locality is key. Tradition is big here. Now, not everyone whos mother was an XYZ at *smallnorthernschool* will get dropped, but you can't assume that you will get a bid just becuase you're a legacy. I think that UGA's website is just reinforcing that fact, but they are trying to state it in a nicer way.