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Your Rush Prep Playbook A Month-by-Month Sorority Recruitment Timeline
The girls who walk in ready for sorority recruitment didn’t just get lucky. They started prepping early. Here’s the month-by-month rush prep timeline for your senior year of high school, one or two things at a time, so nobody’s stressed or scrambling this summer.
Before You Spiral About Being Behind
When Should You Start Preparing for Sorority Recruitment?
Earlier than you think. Chapters start prepping a year out. You can too. Chapter advisors and national volunteers start strategizing for next year's recruitment during the current one, so they can hand the chapter a playbook for next year. Meanwhile, most PNMs and their parents have no idea where to begin, and end up panicking and cramming their prep into June and July.
This is your sorority recruitment playbook for prepping like the chapters do, just from the other side of the rush. It’s a month-by-month walk through senior year, August to the summer before recruitment, one or two small things at a time. Nothing overwhelming, nothing you have to figure out the order of. Just the next right step, every month, so you (or your daughter!) walk in ready.
Print it, save it to your phone, check things off as you go. If you’re reading this before summer, you’re already ahead.
What You’re Getting
Inside Your Free Rush Prep Timeline
- A month-by-month prep timeline, August of senior year through the summer before recruitment
- The one document to start in August that makes the application, resume, and even college scholarships easier later
- Notes about social media, rec letters, and when to start considering all of it (the timing matters more than you’d think)
- How to handle sorority contact when active members start sliding into your DMs
- Exactly what to knock out each month so summer isn’t a scramble
Grab the Playbook
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More From the Basement
This gets you to the starting line. The real playbook comes next.
The Rush Prep Playbook handles the prep. But actually going through recruitment - the rounds, the conversations, the cuts that feel personal and aren’t - is a whole other thing, and it doesn’t fit on a checklist.
The Full Recruitment Bundle is everything I know from 40+ sorority recruitments: written out in full, the application, the conversations, social media, pref night, outfits, all of it, organized into something you can actually use. Grab it now, and you can lean on it for every step in this timeline instead of piecing it together in July like everyone else.
And if you’d rather have me look at your actual materials - your application, your outfits, how you talk in rounds - that’s what consulting is for. I only take a few families a season and they fill early.
