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Old 08-07-2012, 10:22 PM
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Hopefully she was competing at the Olympics, that's one reason which would definitely overcome her situation.
PERFECT and stellar excuse

Be sure to wear your medal during parties!

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Old 08-08-2012, 08:56 PM
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PERFECT and stellar excuse

Be sure to wear your medal during parties!

Well done, 28stGreek!
Well considering the little sporting event that's going on in London, it was the first excuse that came to mind!
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Old 08-08-2012, 06:36 PM
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A few weeks ago, I had a local girl ask me to write her a rec for Ole Miss and I agreed. She told me that it was due September 1 so I had not yet submitted it. I am now seeing that it looks like her rec will be late and I feel terrible. But it's not my fault she gave me the wrong date, right? Should it have been my responsibility to confirm this?
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Old 08-08-2012, 07:21 PM
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don't worry about whose fault it is. just get it done and sent off asap.
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Old 08-08-2012, 08:12 PM
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don't worry about whose fault it is. just get it done and sent off asap.
Exactly. Send it by the electronic method if your HQ has made that method possible for you.
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Old 08-08-2012, 09:22 PM
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A few weeks ago, I had a local girl ask me to write her a rec for Ole Miss and I agreed. She told me that it was due September 1 so I had not yet submitted it. I am now seeing that it looks like her rec will be late and I feel terrible. But it's not my fault she gave me the wrong date, right? Should it have been my responsibility to confirm this?
My daughter pointed out to me that one of the sororities at Ole Miss had Sept. 1 on their website as the deadline, but the office of Greek Affairs suggested Aug 1st.

However, recruitment registration doesn't close until August 27th. (Early Bird registration closed on August 1st.)
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Old 08-08-2012, 11:09 PM
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Aren't the girls already at work week and school started by Aug 27th? This seems really late to me. I believe registration closed July 15 at Arkansas.
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Old 08-09-2012, 02:04 PM
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I would assume they have work week before school actually starts, and then a little "break" until rush happens in September.
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Old 08-09-2012, 03:35 PM
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I would assume they have work week before school actually starts, and then a little "break" until rush happens in September.
Along with the upcoming work week, some chapters already had weekly work days last semester, and some have weekly work days this semester after the work week. With all the PNMs here it takes a lot of work to become familiar with all of them and make other preparations.
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Old 08-09-2012, 03:59 PM
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I'm pretty sure all of the sororities move in this Saturday (at least AOII does). Then "work week" starts on Monday. It's a fun week of workshops, sisterhood, and fun!

As far as recs go, like everyone else said, send them in now! I can't imagine any sorority would throw it away if received past their "deadline."
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Old 08-09-2012, 05:40 PM
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Along with the upcoming work week, some chapters already had weekly work days last semester, and some have weekly work days this semester after the work week. With all the PNMs here it takes a lot of work to become familiar with all of them and make other preparations.
The two years we did it this way at Arkansas (and did I mention how happy we are that we only did it two years?) the girls met the week before school started and then weekly until mid September, too. Plus, they were scoping out the pnms in class, socially, etc! Even though rush technically started in September, the whole 5 or 6 weeks prior felt like one big rush party. The girls were 'on' all the time.
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Old 08-24-2012, 06:25 AM
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Aren't the girls already at work week and school started by Aug 27th? This seems really late to me. I believe registration closed July 15 at Arkansas.
I know someone with a daughter that is participating. They were told that Ole Miss starts late due to retention. Too many girls that didn't get a bid were leaving dropping out of Ole Miss completely.
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Old 08-24-2012, 08:12 AM
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I know someone with a daughter that is participating. They were told that Ole Miss starts late due to retention. Too many girls that didn't get a bid were leaving dropping out of Ole Miss completely.
That is precisely what the delayed recruitment was meant to prevent. And once upon a time, in the bad old days before social media, those girls that dropped out of Ole Miss were headed to a different school to rush again! Never could decide how they lined up two separate sets of recs.
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That is precisely what the delayed recruitment was meant to prevent. And once upon a time, in the bad old days before social media, those girls that dropped out of Ole Miss were headed to a different school to rush again! Never could decide how they lined up two separate sets of recs.
It is a logistical nightmare, but I know a family who did precisely this. The young lady is from Louisville and she chose an out of state SEC as her "first" school. I know they had two sets of recs, I was one of her Sigma Kappa recs. If she had not gotten into one of her "favorite" chapters, the back up plan was a midwestern university with a lesser competitive Greek system and a later start date and recruitment. She would be able to find out the results of her SEC recruitment before having to report to the midwestern school.
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Old 08-25-2012, 05:48 PM
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I know someone that did this at Indiana, even! She went through recruitment as a freshman, suicided and didn't get a bid. Went through recruitment as a sophomore, suicided again and didn't get a bid. She dropped out of IU after her sophomore year and transferred to UK, where she magically became a member of an NPC group in fall of her junior year
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