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I agree w you but that’s why maybe the pnms should consider achievements pre-recruitment because, to your point, it is something that became important once you were in the Greek system. So you’re right, I wasn’t focusing on knowing those “stats” during recruitment but I honestly wonder if I would have selected a different house if I had taken that into consideration because I’m in a very social house and I already had a bf coming into college and I don’t really enjoy a lot of the same things as half my chapter. I like volunteering and stuff and they like making tik toks and going out every night. I found a group in my chapter and I love my house, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just saying that I think you’re explaining why it is important to kind of know which chapters are into the same stuff as you before recruitment

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Delayed recruitment would absolutely ruin sorority life because the downside is worse than anything that happens now. It's never like you describe, where pnm's just stand back and observe sororities and then make informed choices based on GPA and leadership etc during rush. Talk to any girl who goes to a school with this kind of recruitment. It's all about them hearing others' opinions based on the superficial stuff you are talking about.

At these schools, the pnm's become far more exposed and influenced by the "gossip, social, popularity, and looks" you are talking about directly from people, and most of it comes from fraternity boys and rampant pre-rushing from sorority members.

When the girls interested in joining a sorority can't have a sorority home their first semester, they inevitably attach themselves to fraternity guys for their social life - parties and game days etc - and meeting sorority members. The frat boys tell them what sororities they think are best, based of course on looks and hotness and party-worthiness while denegrating the other sororities based on the same fratty lens. So they are essentially rushing the pnm's and having an influence they shouldn't because of delayed recruitment.

And the sorority members meet some pnm's and rush them hard all semester. They have their favorite pnm's picked out before recruitment and the pnm's also have picked out where they only want to join. There is much less open-mindedness on the part of sororities or pnm's when recruitment comes around, everyone already has their mind made up and there are far more drops when pnm's don't get their top choices. They've wanted them all semester as opposed to a few days in recruitment and their minds are totally shut at this point. This is how reputations get cemented in people's minds and a downward spiral happens. Sorority membership drops off across the board.

Do you really think GPA, campus involvement, awards, sisterhood, etc are what pnm's are thinking about at this point? Please.

Delayed recruitment is a terrible idea and one that every single national sorority will discourage, if not fight.

I can't imagine football season as a freshman without my sorority.

Endorsement of Fall Primary Recruitment

NPC defines primary recruitment as the period of time during the academic year when events are held by each NPC sorority on a campus for the purpose of selecting new
members. NPC endorses primary recruitment occurring at the beginning of the fall academic term for these reasons:

• Freedom of association: NPC organizations should be free to recruit, select and enroll new members at any time that other student organizations – such as intercollegiate athletics, musical ensembles and other recognized student organizations – may do so to uphold students’ rights to freely associate and to ensure a fair and equitable application of student policy.

• Acclimation: Provides women an early opportunity to adapt to the demands of campus life, including academic, social, cultural and service components, by quickly
affiliating with a supportive subset of women students.

• Retention: Engages women quickly as first-year students so they continue toward degree completion.

• Mentoring: Provides woman-to-woman mentoring
opportunities via collegiate chapter members and alumnae.

• Academic support: Encourages women to engage in chapter academic study and scholarship groups immediately.

• Time management: Provides optimum experience without distractions from recruitment activities throughout the fall academic term.

• Scheduling: Offers fewer disruptions caused by inclement weather conditions.

Additionally, sorority programming and expectations follow the missions of higher education institutions by fostering a spirit of sisterhood, which serves as a safety net for young women as they acclimate to a college/university environment. Sorority programming and services also provide first-year women a sound base for educational success throughout college. Moreover, studies indicate student retention is enhanced by membership in a sorority, where sharing common interests and values with mutually supportive members leads togreater collegiate satisfaction.

NPC believes there is no substitute for the enrichment sororities offer young women as part of the college/university experience, and this enrichment is most beneficial early in the academic year. NPC asserts deferred recruitment is not in the best interests for the
health and welfare of a sound sorority community and its members.