RECRUITMENT: CHAPTER SIDE

Stand up.

Now do your favorite recruitment door chant!

Alright. Sit back down.

Now that you are pumped, I am happy to announce it is time for recruitment!! At this point your chapter begins recruitment either next week or next month. Either way, recruitment is here! Recruitment for chapters can be a very stressful time. I know this and you, *insert your name here*, know this, but some people might think that recruitment is just a time for fun and games. Wrong. I am going to clarify what it means to be on the 'Chapter Side' of recruitment for our non-sorority women readers :)

Recruitment is a lot of fun and sometimes chapters play games to lighten the mood, but overall recruitment week is serious and intense. This is the time of year that sorority women spend a very short period of time to get to know women that want to join a sorority and invite them to a lifelong sisterhood. Crazy, huh? What is even crazier is that it works. Over the past 160 years, over 4 million women have joined a sorority. Not all of these women have gone through the exact same process as you, but it is pretty close.

Chapters have a lot to deal with when it comes to recruitment. They have to account for their members, feed them, talk to PNMs, sort letters of recommendation, vote on PNMs, decorate, memorize speeches, create videos and slideshows, and so much more that I cannot even begin to remember. Chapters do all of these things while being friendly to everyone that enters their house. 

Like I said, it is intense. But seriously, it is all worth it. To give out bids on Bid Day and to see your new members' faces makes recruitment worth all of the stress and sleepless nights. Recruitment is the lifeblood of our chapters, but it is sisterhood that keeps us going. Because if it were not for sisterhood, there would be no point in doing it and after all it is the end goal.

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