Process for Rushing as a Freshman

TxNewCollegeMom
Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:06:31 +0000

Mom of a D in her second year at Alabama and she is in a sorority.

Here is what you need to do starting now:


Find recs for each sorority at Alabama, 2 each is best. If you get more than 2 for one house, take them! Someone wants to write a rec for you, GREAT! Ask your parents friends if they were in a sorority, teachers, your friends moms, everyone you know!
Post this on your FB and your parents change the wording and post on their FB as well:
“Sorority help needed
I will be attending The University of Alabama next year. I plan on going through formal recruitment in order to join a sorority. I am needing 2 Reccomendations per house at UA.
If you, your mother, grandmother or close family friend were in a sorority and would like to write a Rec for me it would be greatly appreciated.
Please let me know soon and you can private message me or email me at abcdef@abc.com
Thank you for your help"
Keep a good list of your potential rec writers with which sorority they were in, phone number, email address and mailing address.
Keep watching the Alabama Panhellenic site to see when registration opens and register.
If you can attend Preview Weekend at UA the weekend of February 28, do so.
If you have not, get your housing deposit submitted asap.
Join the UA students FB for your class. Find the roommate finder and connect with other future students there. Could even find others that plan to rush and potential roomies moms might write a rec for you.
Work on your resume and rec packet info. These need to be mailed to your rec writers by the end of April. Be considerate of their schedule. Don’t give it to them at the last minute. What is needed and how to word the resume can be found online.
Find your local Panhellenic for alumni. See if they have a way to sign up for PNM’s (potential new member). They often have workshops for PNM’s.
Clean up your social media!!!
If you would be embarrassed for your grandmother to see it, it should not be on there.
Yes, be a prude in a good way. No pictures of alcohol, smoking, drugs, etc
No reference to such either.
Move in for PNM’s is a week earlier than everyone else in order for recruitment to be completed before the first day of school.
Bid Day is on the last day which is the Saturday before classes start. All girls still in recruitment will be taken inside Bryant-Denny Stadium. You will receive an envelope with your bid inside. Then you will go find the actives from that house with the letters and then as a group will run to your house. A light meal, info and such will be done all dependent on what each house normally does.
If you receive a bid and all is good, your family agrees to pay the dues, you agree to the rules, etc, you are in.


Hope this helps