Thank you, Titchou! She did maximize her options, but with how nervous she is I was just curious. We'll know tonight I guess!

Maybe ChiOLu can give some post recruitment stats?? How many of the original group voluntarily dropped out of recruitment? How many bids went out? Finally, what was quota this year?

Are bids handed out at 5:30/6:00 pm tonight? I am excited because I know several girls going through this year!!

I found that the sleep deprivation and insane workload of recruitment as a VPM was great preparation for residency. When I hit intern year, I already knew that I could go for two solid weeks with practically no sleep and remain ruthlessly efficient. The only difference is that when you're the intern on call and have twelve admissions overnight, you don't have to do them with perfect hair and makeup!

IF you maximize your options at UCLA, it is HIGHLY LIKELY a PNM will receive a bid. (There are tons of threads why it's not 100%, but "highly likely".)

UCLA has QAs (Quota Additions) -- if you are ONLY invited to ONE Pref party, it is HIGHLY LIKELY a PNM will receive an invite to that group.
This does NOT mean SIP/Single Intentional Preference (aka "Suicide"/only listing 1 GLO when you went to 2 parties for Pref).

And since UCLA has a large # of upperclassmen (due to transfers), there is a high UC quota (2-digit) and MOST chapters maximize the UC quota because there are so many women who have stellar qualifications (grades, activities, leadership, philanthropy, etc.).

Finally, UCLA has a good # of International Students who are at the university for just 1 year (their "study abroad" program) and these women can be "IQAs" -- International Quota Additions, that are not counting in quota.

So for an EXAMPLE, if quota is 58 with 42 freshmen and 16 upperclassmen (or rather, upperclasswomen), a New Member Class could go well beyond 58 with quota, QAs & International QAs. With all NMs added in, it's not uncommon to go 2-digits above quota.

More women in Greek Life!

And there was much rejoicing ...

I really love the idea of International QAs for women who are there short term!

Dating myself when posting but my senior year 1976 at UCLA was one of the largest recruitments in the country at the time (believe 1200 plus). believe total was 170, quota 54. 18 houses, 2 9 party days for open house.Skit round 12 parties, House tours 8, then 4 parties (believe we did philanthropy), Preference 2 Soooo looking forward to Alpha Gam-Delta Epsilon being back on the row next fall. Back in the day you were guaranteed a bid if you did not 'suicide' before pref. Not sure how much has changed.

Primary pool Quota was 31. Secondary was 19.

Oh, I do too!

Chi Omega has 52 New Members!

ETA #s:
Alpha Phi -- 55
Delta Gamma -- 55
Gamma Phi Beta -- 56
These are from Facebook. No numbers listed on twitter.
(will get official #s from Panhellenic in a few days & update)

Yes! And Gamma Phi is now hovering around 170 in membership! Amazing growth the last couple of years. UCLA could really use those colonies.

What chapter total would UCLA like to have?

I'm no longer advising there, so I don't want to speak for others, but I believe that at least a few of the chapters currently struggle to fit all their members at their houses for meetings and dinner. Total was 115 for many years, and that seemed to be a good number to allow each chapter to fill up their live-in spaces without creating too much excess demand. Most of the houses fit 45-65 women living in. I mentioned in another thread that sometimes sophomores who don't get to live in wind up dropping out because they truly can't afford $2,500-3,500 in live-out dues year after year.

Those are some serious live-out dues. If the chapter house is paid for and full, that actually seems really greedy to me.

Maintenance, replacements and repairs! That stuff adds up fast. My own home seems determined to run me to the poor house.

Updating the Recruitment numbers ...
Quota: Freshmen 31, Upperclass 19 (= 50)
(note: some chapters go over with Quota Additions and International QAs

Alpha Chi Omega - 47
Alpha Delta Pi - 53
Alpha Phi - 55
Chi Omega - 52
Delta Gamma - 55
Gamma Phi Beta - 56

No numbers yet
Delta Delta Delta -- ??
Kappa Alpha Theta -- ??
Kappa Delta -- ??
Kappa Kappa Gamma -- ??
Pi Beta Phi -- ??

Please add if you know.

I've seen facebook posts on each chapters' page welcoming the new members, but few are listing numbers. (Hmmm, since almost every group met/exceeded quota, I wonder why not post?)