My Friendtastic Recruitment

[UNLVBunny]

Hi everyone,

As you can tell by my name and my previous posts I currently attend the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Recruitment starts at the end of the week and I am super excited! The anticipation for the past month has been crazy. For those of you who don't know, UNLV is known for being a commuter college with, from what I've heard, a fairly non-competitive recruitment process. Recruitment is slightly deferred as we started class at the end of August. There are six Panhellenic Council sororities on campus. Since anyone can just go look up which ones are on campus I'll just list them:

Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Xi Delta
Delta Zeta
Sigma Kappa
Zeta Tau Alpha

I have decided to go with a Friends theme, which is one of my favorite t.v shows AND has six main characters which works out perfectly!

Code Names (in no particular order or color):
Rachel
Phoebe
Monica
Ross
Joey
Chandler
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The schedule for recruitment is as follows:

Wednesday or Thursday- Orientation Session
Friday- "Go Greek" Day One
Saturday- "Philanthropy Day"
Sunday- "Preference Day"
Monday- "Bid Day"

I have to double check but I am pretty sure it goes 6-4-2. I will most likely post each day the day or two after it actually happens since I have let everyone know my school. I would have made this thread later in the week but I needed a place to focus some of my excitement.

So far there have been little events before recruitment in order to get us more acquainted with the sororities. I have been putting quite a bit of effort into avoiding any sort of tent talk as I really want to go into this with as little bias as possible because in all honesty everyone I have met so far has been very friendly. Overall, I am excited to see how this turns out.

[groovypq]

I love Friends! Still miss that show! Good luck!

[AGDee]

Good luck!

[FSUZeta]

good luck bunny!

[33girl]

I think this is what's technically called a "delayed recruitment" since first semester freshmen can participate. Good luck!

[IrishLake]

I've never heard it called delayed, this is how it is at a lot of schools around here. Best of luck, OP!

[DubaiSis]

I'm rooting for a Chandler AND an Alpha Xi Delta ending. Could I be so lucky as to have guessed right?

Good luck!

[twinkle555]

Phoebe!!

[Jill1228]

Good luck. I love y'all campus and Las Vegas is my favorite city

[UNLVBunny]

So Wednesday and Thursday were orientation days for the recruitment process. Each girl only had to attend one of the days. It was basically an information session about how each day was going to go, what to wear, what not to wear, etc. It was also when we met our Rho Gammas and our recruitment groups. Overall it was pretty exciting just to know that recruitment is finally here.

Today was day one of recruitment. I am tired. I don't know how you girls do it, especially at bigger schools where there are so many more sororities. By the end they all start to blend together. I don't know how the sororities do it either. Meeting nearly 400 girls in one night and then trying to narrow them down. That really must be exhausting.

I also quickly realized it is nearly impossible to avoid tent talk. I was surprised about how vocal people were about what sorority they wanted and even more so about which ones they did not. Several girls are dead set on one sorority and have already said they will drop if they don't get them. It's kind of crazy actually, but either way I am trying my very hardest not to be influenced by other people's opinions.

Time to get some rest but I will update tomorrow or Sunday with an actual account of the day.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by UNLVBunny

So Wednesday and Thursday were orientation days for the recruitment process. Each girl only had to attend one of the days. It was basically an information session about how each day was going to go, what to wear, what not to wear, etc. It was also when we met our Rho Gammas and our recruitment groups. Overall it was pretty exciting just to know that recruitment is finally here.

Today was day one of recruitment. I am tired. I don't know how you girls do it, especially at bigger schools where there are so many more sororities. By the end they all start to blend together. I don't know how the sororities do it either. Meeting nearly 400 girls in one night and then trying to narrow them down. That really must be exhausting.

I also quickly realized it is nearly impossible to avoid tent talk. I was surprised about how vocal people were about what sorority they wanted and even more so about which ones they did not. Several girls are dead set on one sorority and have already said they will drop if they don't get them. It's kind of crazy actually, but either way I am trying my very hardest not to be influenced by other people's opinions.

Time to get some rest but I will update tomorrow or Sunday with an actual account of the day.

Yes, UNLVbunny, it is. It's exhausting in more ways than you can imagine. There is extensive preparation that goes into recruitment, starting in the spring and carrying through the summer; the actual days of recruitment are very long and emotionally intense for the actives. But - it's worth it. Or else we wouldn't do it.

And please, please, please - let the tent talk go. Be your own person, keep an open mind, and you will find your home. You have excellent chapters at UNLV. The experience lasts a lifetime, not just the (relatively) short time you're actually in college as an "active". And if you're lucky, you'll have friends in every GLO, not just your own. *banging the panhellenic drum again*

Hope you got some rest, sending you lots of luck and positive energy.

[DubaiSis]

It's great that you've seen the error in these girls' thinking. Some of these girls will miraculously change their story, and others will stupidly drop out as soon as they experience the taste of rejection, maybe for the first time in their lives.

Get lots of rest, try to keep the emotions in check, and stay positive! I wish you the very best of luck.

[cali_gossip]

Ooh I'm rooting for Joey!

[DubaiSis]

OK, so UNLV recruitment is done. I want to know how it turned out!

[honeychile]

I'd like to know, too. I know the ADPi results, but I'd like to hear the stories behind it.