Recruitment Insight
by: fax
People like to speculate on who got the best pledge class but it’s more complex than that. Obviously not every house goes after the same girls and instead there are small groups of houses that seem to compete with each other. Here’s how I see it: (and I’m not listing these in any type of ranking order)
Adpi pretty much gets whoever they want. I know people love to say they’ve fallen and aren’t top tier, etc. but I’ve worked on the other side of recruitment and I’ve seen the numbers. You can’t deny that they have the highest return rate every year. They rarely worry about losing a top girl to another chapter.
Tri delt and KD have seemed to compete for the same group of girls in more recent years. These chapters are big with in state girls.
I think phi mu and DZ recruit from a very similar pool of girls- mostly from Nashville.
AXO recruits from a more diverse group and doesn’t compete directly with one chapter. They put on a strong recruitment year after year. If PNMs went in to recruitment more open minded and less biased, I think AXO would have one of the higher return rates. Unfortunately girls will love AXO but pick another chapter just for the “name” or legacy of it at UT. But I think AXO gets closer and closer to the top each year.
Chi o and aopi historically have competed for the same girls and still do to this day. Like the exact same girls. You could join either chapter and have the same experience in my opinion. And chi O’s recruitment is helped by just the simple fact that chi omega is the biggest sorority in the country and a lot of girls strive to be part of the organization as a whole rather than considering just the individual chapter.
ZTA is similar to AXO in the strong girls they recruit and not competing directly with any one house.
Phi beta phi and sigma kappa both get girls who go into recruitment with less bias or maybe less connections. They get girls who care more about being apart of the sorority/sisterhood experience than just the “name” and their sisterhoods are strong because of it. Lots of out of state girls for this reason.
And dg and kkg recruit similarly. A lot of girls end up choosing between these two chapters.
Commentby: Yep
If PhiMu could quit self ranking and cutting down other houses for a hot minute, the OP didn't say they competed with DZ, but rather recruited similar girls.
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by: Hmmm
#3by: Agree...
#5by: Agree
It’s crazy how much bias goes into the recruitment process a lot of times without girls even realizing it. Or like how who you know and where you’re from affects how you view chapters. When I went through recruitment I loooved phi mu but I literally only knew one girl from my hometown in it (she was cool but a little quirky, not typical phi mu vibes at all) so for that reason I didn’t think it was as good of a chapter and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go phi mu. Shallow…. I realize that now. They ended up dropping me anyway after philanthropy and after I joined a different chapter I realized phi mu is actually like in the top 3 chapters at UTK and I just thought it was funny that during recruitment I was like “this chapter seems cool but wtf is phi mu”
by: Also
In addition to that… where I’m from the “top chapters” that all the girls from my hometown want are adpi, chi o, tri delt, kd, or aopi. Whereas if you’re from Nashville or something you probably don’t care as much about tri delt, aopi, or chi o and instead would think DZ is a top chapter. It’s all relative. The chapters I’d say are pretty consistently regarded as top no matter where you’re from are KD and adpi
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To "Also", are you an ADPI or KD? For sure you are one of those. You sure do have a high opinion of yourself. Most girls I went through recruitment with didn't have ADPI or KD as their top choice.
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by: Mmmm
by: Good grief
aoii alum are truly embarassing. Everyone, including them, know they are middle tier and they are fine with it. I don't know why you aren't.
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by: Uh
Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. It just means that they had more spots to fill which possibly could be from girls dropping
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#10by: alrighty
aopi and chi o definitely recruit similar girls, but also adpi and chio recruit girls with the same vibes. i would agree with adpi getting most girls they want - they have a super good return rate and aren't necessarily concerned with being "top" - they are who they are. every girl in that sorority gives off similar vibes and are usually pretty cool people across the board. the thing about axo makes a lot of sense - from what I've noticed (as a senior) their pledge classes seem to get better every year and they're easily upper mid-lower top now, but they still dont have the notability that some other utk sororities do
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by: Mmmmm
PhiMu is constantly self ranking and putting othere down. And, gasp, I know girls who chose DZ over you, so you have a very false perception of yourself.
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