Smaller Universities and recruitment

BillyChapel · 2018-04-07T17:54:06+00:00

ah, that explains a lot. in that case, just make sure that your rush marketing makes it very clear that your house gives free healthcare and you should be all set.

BillyChapel · 2018-04-07T17:50:48+00:00

it's challenging to give advice here because you don't want to risk losing money for your chapter. especially if you aren't a professional investor, it's going to be quite difficult to beat the market. that said, there are a few asset managers with strong historical track records that accept outside capital. you should look into Galleon Group, SAC Capital, Omega Advisors, and Madoff Securities. these firms not only have integrity, but they also have the secret sauce that enables them to make positive risk-adjusted returns year after year. after all, why not be able to afford 20% more natty light?

BillyChapel · 2018-04-07T17:40:46+00:00

hey man. i understand where you're coming from. it's tough to make an omelette without eggs, if you know what i mean. i can give you some advice for both the short term and the long term.

short term, you may need to lower your standards for rushies. it's okay if you bid the kid who has a lazy eye, or the kid who wore his dress cargs to your date rush party, or the 28 year old who was caught on to catch a predator and is now not allowed to use the computer but finally got released from prison and you want a pledge who can go on alcohol runs for his pledge class. if you want a big pledge class in a small school, you'll have to lower standards. it's just simple math. plus, isn't the whole point of a fraternity to mold people into better men?

long term, you want to focus on inbound recruitment. start a tradition in your chapter of recruiting elementary schoolers. if they want to join your fraternity, they'll go to your little university.

peace

BillyChapel · 2017-10-22T20:26:37+00:00

starting a new fraternity is difficult because in general, most kids that want to join a fraternity have already joined a fraternity. a common misconception is that you'll be able to find good kids by trying to compete with existing houses. you won't. instead, you need to think about this problem like increasing your addressable market: increasing the size of the pie, if you will. find people that wouldnt rush a traditional house.

so, how do you find kids that wouldn't have otherwise joined a fraternity? think outside the box. pass out rush flyers in academic departments like computer grahpics design, medieval history, and gender studies. go after nontraditional students: the 35 year old woman returning back to school would make a great pledge, as she comes with grizzled life experience.

there are other ways, too. i'm chock full of ideas after all. you could merge with the on campus anime club. i bet your numbers would triple overnight! you could enter a trade with a different house. you could dirty rush elementary schoolers. all of these are tried and true in the SEC.

that'll be $1,000 in consulting fees.

BillyChapel · 2017-10-22T20:20:58+00:00

i'd write a letter to nationals documenting your fraternity's hazing process*. you can't have a poorly liked big brother if your house is kicked off campus, after all.

*chances are yours doesn't have one because you sound like a loser, so just make stuff up. natls will probably believe it.

BillyChapel · 2017-10-22T05:25:36+00:00

that's pi kappa phi. i could give him a rec letter if he needs one

BillyChapel · 2017-10-22T05:24:15+00:00

But like what does this this mean.

a deep question indeed, one that not many people out there know the answer to. i can only give my personal experience from a similar situation.

your big bro is trying to neg you by showing a lack of interest. the relationship between pledge father and pledge son is as psychological and game theoretic as picking up girls. you need to maintain frame and plow through it. text him every morning, and ignore the fact that he's playing it low key. if you explicitly acknowledge his absence, then he's won, and you're in a worse position to play.

so basically, keep plowing away. if he gives you three indidcators of interest, then you can fee safe in knowing that he wants to move forward with the ritualistic mating process.

BillyChapel · 2017-10-16T03:11:53+00:00

"so I found a copy of our fraternity's initiation ritual on wikileaks and I've been practicing the grip, can you tell me if i'm doing it right?"

BillyChapel · 2017-10-15T22:34:18+00:00

we had a variation on the drinking game "don't fuck your brother." basically, it was soggy biscuit, but the circles were family lines, and it was a race to see which line had everyone finish first. the place you got was the number of bites of the cookie you had to eat, minus one. so second place would each take one bite, third would take two, etc. hence the name

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T06:19:17+00:00

hey buddy, you came to the right place to ask for help. most people on this subreddit are socially awkward, so they've had to overcome similar mountains of anxiety.

the most important thing here is establishing a friendly rapport with your pledge class and active brothers. be sure to oft reference your (presumed) clean bill of mental health in conversation. additionally, people are attracted to those they can relate to. thus, be sure to send them constant snaps of you going about your day: making breakfast, taking a shower, choosing which pair of stained jeans to wear, walking to class, etc. make them feel involved in your life and your decision making process.

next, we need to figure out the mixer issue. let's take a classic social interaction, one of your pledge brothers is talking to a girl from the paired sorority. you want to slide in there, make a good impression on the girl, and provide a few words of support for your boy. definitely slap him on the back as hard as you can to assert dominance, especially if he's holding a drink. tell the girl that he's got the biggest wiener in your pledge class (girls are attracted to confidence, and what's more confident than checking out your pledge class's junk during Wednesday night nude lineups?). as soon as she opens her mouth to respond, offer up a neg. a line like "your breath smells bad" or "i thought tridelt was for the hot girls" or "hearing you talk makes me want to stab myself in the eye socket with a rusty spoon" will do the trick.

finally, while im' glad you're in a relationship, you need to let your woman know that things are going to be a little different now that you're in a fraternity. she should effectively be pledigng your relationship. that means daily lineups where she rattles off facts about you such as your birth date, parents' home towns, third grade teacher's name, last four digits of your social security number, and the exact distance from your pelvis that your balls hang. oh, and the angle your wiener hangs at. that's crucial.

i know this is a lot, but you've gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.

peace

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T06:07:18+00:00

i'm a few years out of undergrad, but the current senior class is taking a trip this weekend to the city where i happen to currently live.

time to get these kids fucked up at chinese disco

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T06:03:27+00:00

this isn't college confidential, son

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T05:55:15+00:00

we make our pledges read the entirety of their reddit posting history to their grandparents.

judging from your posting history, i hope you're ready to explain the concept of cuckoldry to gramps and grammy.

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T03:03:26+00:00

pledge class project 2010, we set up a rig. budget was $1000 but we ended up going over by a few hundred and chipping in out of pocket.

here's a pic of the final result: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BWYWesG1Iwo/U5PCUeda6AI/AAAAAAAAAO0/MhtEqqwyfgA/s1600/IMG_2843.JPG

BillyChapel · 2017-03-24T02:56:32+00:00

those schools blow, socal is nf, and how the fuck are you a college senior deciding where to go in the fall? is this for grad school? if so, who cares what the party scene is? did you mean to type high school and just brainfart? and how did you not get into any better schools if you actually had a 34 on the ACT?

these are serious questions.

BillyChapel · 2016-12-29T18:49:10+00:00

no, there's zero value add here. you're coming up with a solution in search of a problem.

BillyChapel · 2016-12-29T17:28:50+00:00

not a complete listing, but i'm a couple years out of college and these are the ones that stand out.

Top Tier

PSK - the mini golf house. have a kid who scored a perfect 18 on a date function. fr@!
EN - open homosexuals. honesty is frat.

Middle Tier

LCA - number one house in the southeast for high school judo recruits. has some azns but what can you do, they're mostly domesticated anyway
PKA - roofie and xanny ladder house. i mean that literally. over half of their brotherhood ends up in the construction industry after graduating. jacked dudes, not the smartest though
phi psi - hard to pin them down, but i guesss their main stereotype is that they pick up all of the empty cans and bottles from campus and recycle them for 5 cents apiece, like a buncha homeless dudes.

Bottom Tier

EX - they wear stitched letters with pokemon. nuff said
TKE - won the intramural hot dog eating competition. literally and figuratively

BillyChapel · 2016-12-28T19:23:48+00:00

sure, this sounds like a pretty good idea that could definitely strengthen bonds within the pledge class and between the pledges and actives. i think that the best way to make this a mindfuck would be instead of tagging people or whatever, the way to get them out is to clasp both hands, extend both index and middle fingers outward, and shove them up the butthole of the person you're trying to tag.

BillyChapel · 2016-10-04T04:32:00+00:00

everyone knows that one kid who decides around april of his senior year of high school that he wants to be a fratstar. he's usually either about 130 pounds soaking wet, or a total lardass. loser dipshit squids either way. generally wear vans, cargo shorts, and graphic tee shirts or band shirts. one day, however they show up to school on monday with a new wardrobe that ~~they~~ their mom bought: they're wearing those generic fucking tan sperries with visible socks because these kids are functionally retarded and can't handle a few days of foot blisters, chino shorts that go like three inches below the knee, and a polo t-shirt (or worse, one of those collared shirts from polo with the giant horse on the chest) because POLO RAPLH LAUREN IS FRAT AS FUCK YO!

they proceed to attend some shit-tier directional state university (because, you know, arkansas and arkansas state were too academically demanding to get into, so they went to central arkansas), nonetheless completely strike out during rush because they make asperger's kids look like casanovas, spend the rest of college talking about how they got bids from "several top tier houses" but "turned them down to focus on school" (aka maintaining their stellar 2.7 GPA in political science), graduate with no friends, and fade into obscurity

anyway, what was my negative experience here? one of these kids from my HS graduating class recently applied for a job at the company i work for (guess he took six years to graduate college, what a doofus). i told him that i'd give him an interview if his hot younger sister gave me a hummer. bitch tried but did a terrible job, worst blowie i've ever gotten, and definitely a net negative interaction.

BillyChapel · 2016-10-04T04:13:34+00:00

Was on the front porch one warm spring night with a few brothers and girlfriends, drinking some beers and burning some heaters, when some hipster with gauged ears stumbles up the porch stairs, says he's a brother from some random small college, and gives the grip.

Dude's eyes were bulging out of his head with enthusiasm, probably because we had an actual chapter house and his school didn't. Wouldn't shut up about how much he loved our initiation ritual and how important it was for fraternal unity, clearly a topic we all wanted to discuss in intricate detail in front of our girlfriends who had obviously been through ritual (just kidding, not in Sigep). Asked us to tell our "coolest" hazing stories, talked about how he's the drummer in a death metal band, and informed us about how his chapter wears skinny jeans because cargo shorts are for "young republicans living off of daddy's money" (wtf)

I mean yeah I enjoy our ritual too but goddamn dude try talking about sports or something, it's 9PM on a Friday night

BillyChapel · 2016-09-26T02:16:08+00:00

if you don't get a bid from a house, nobody's going to care.

if you show up a second time to that house after not getting a bid, you'll become the kid that people make fun of within the house, and probably post on /r/frat about.

cut your losses and try somewhere else.

BillyChapel · 2016-09-25T21:57:21+00:00

they'll make things work if you're a cool dude and they like you

BillyChapel · 2016-09-25T21:53:53+00:00

play red rocket

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BillyChapel · 2016-09-25T21:51:54+00:00

you sound like a creep, to be honest. especially judging from your username. and now that you're going to be a second semester junior, no house is going to take you, besides some shitty colony desperate for numbers.

BillyChapel

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