Thanks UK Daisy for the update. A great start to yet another great year at UK! :)

P.S. UK's fraternity bids may be extended starting Thrusday.

I'm told the same for Washington State........

Gamma Phi Beta at Alabama actually had 36 new members.

SDT did not participate in formal recruitment.

actually I think both Washington State and Auburn were both pilot campuses....

Thanks GP :) Is it just me or do people keep pissing on this SDT chapter for no reason?

Their poor chapter...nearly everyone quit or graduated last spring. They had some really sweet girls, however, and I'm still friends with some of their ex-members.

They have just acquired a stigma over the past few years, and it's hurt them. Go back 8-10 years, and they were quite strong. Of course, you can also go back 10 or 12 years and another house was the "worst" house on the row. That new McMansion did wonders for them.

Sadly, the U of Alabama sororities seem to like to have a "little guy" to kick around and put down. It used to be Alpha Xi Delta...then DG...then somebody else. I wish they had a strong Greek advisor who would get across to them that doing that hurts the entire Greek system. Men's groups can be awful one year and great the next...women are not allowed that. The "rankings" seem frozen throughout the generations.

I agree, AnchorAlumna. There are slight fluctuations from year to year, but overall, it's pretty set in stone. My chapter has had to work really hard because we're still "young" at nearly 16 years old. AXiD, DG, SigK, and APhi have all closed, and SDT is close to it...you would think that Alabama sororities would be more supportive of each other, but they're not. Definitely not a Panhellenic-spirited campus.

Zta at University of Tennessee made quota + 2 for a total of 49 girls!

Wish we still had our chapter at UA. Had one from the '30s to the early 80s, then it closed, then it opened back up for like 6 years, then closed again. It would be nice to actually meet another Alpha Xi from west Alabama... right now I'm one of like 4 known to exist on that side of the state.

recruitment results
 

zta at florida state pledged 60 girls( quota plus additions)

At LSU..... Quota was set when it was supposed to be set, using whatever formula they use. I would assume that it takes into account the number of chapters, how many girls are going through, how many girls are usually released, and how many girls drop out. The only explaination I can give is that more women were staying in recruitment throughout the week. This is good and bad news for LSU sororities. On a good note, we've all reached somewhat of a level playing field and women are not dropping out after being released from particular houses. This is what Panhellenic has been aiming for for years here. Also, the quality of students attending here in recent years has increased. In my opinion, this has to do with the TOPS scholarship (for those of you that don't know, it is similar to the Georgia HOPE scholarship). It pays tuition and sometimes extra depending on your high school GPA and ACT scores, if you are a Louisiana resident. This fact, coupled with the fact that we are National Champions (haha, I'm bragging USC fans) has caused an increase in enrollment. I know it sounds funny, but just ask my friend who works in admissions.
My first instinct was to have quota additions. That is not possible because all sororities were at their chapter total. Many of them are currently at their max when it comes to issues with the fire marshall.

I would love to extend the panhellenic spirit and welcome another sorority here.

I just heard that UGA AXO made one under quota, with 60 new members

My cousin just pledge ZTA at UT and she said that quota was 50, adn they were picking up one girl (possibly her roommate). She just joined so she may be confused (love my cousin, but this wouldn't be unusual)...anyone know for sure.

I know the ADPi's were having great return rates, but anyone know how many girls they took?

Does anyone know how UARK-Fayetteville did?

Quota for Ole Miss this year was initially set at 102. But I think now it has been lowered. I think it's still going to be in the 80's or 90's...but they don't know yet because people are still registering for rush.

I was at the house today and I saw the rush video...it was sooooo good!! And I cannot beleive all the presents our pledges are getting on Bid Day! I was soooo jealous!

heavens!!
 

does anyone else think that quota over 100 is bordering on the absurd? i know this is beating a dead horse, but with a quota of 80 or 90, several sororities could colonize there at the same time and still have girls go bidless!

Re: heavens!!
 

I feel you on that one. But unfortunately this isn't a "if you build it they will come" type of thing.

ole miss
 

don't we know it!!

As of right now at 11:50am on Monday, there are 742 girls signed up for recruitment at Ole Miss. Therefore, quota should be at a normal number this year for our 9 houses! Also, becaue of computer problems and server problems last Friday, the deadline has been extended to August 31 at midnight to register for Recruitment. After that, no one can register late or anything of that nature like last year.

Anyway, just wanted to give ya'll an update. I know all of the houses were practicing yesterday on their door songs! They are all looking so good! GO GREEK AT OLE MISS :)

Damn, that's a really low # for Ole Miss. I think my freshman year there were like 900 or so. I can't remember...maybe not. But I was thinking there are usually about that many going through.

Anyone know how Sigma Kappa did at University of Tennessee?

UK Results to date. (Quota = 61)

Alpha Delta Pi - 61
Alpha Gamma Delta - 62
Chi Omega - 61
Delta Delta Delta - 62
Delta Gamma - 61
Delta Zeta - 61
Kappa Alpha Theta - 63
Kappa Kappa Gamma - 63
Pi Beta Phi - 63
Sigma Kappa - 50

Still waiting results for ...

Alpha Omicron Pi
Kappa Delta

ETA: Based on the Wildcat Weekly. Numbers may differ from other posts.

Re: heavens!!
 

It's a whole new ballgame. Look at Penn State - they have 20 NPC sororities, Total is 80, and roughly 500-600 women sign up. If PSU had only 10 sororities, quota would be much more like LSU or Ole Miss or such. It's a different concept, a entirely different way of looking at the GLO system.

Of course, PSU sororities don't have houses to keep up, either. A chapter with a house almost needs a large chapter.

Just my 2¢...

Hello all!! Bid Day was today at Ole Miss and everyone made quota I think except for DG and Theta. I think they are the only two but OleMissGlitter might be able to verify if that is it. Quota was 80. So there are a lot of excited girls in Oxford, MS tonight!! I know that Phi Mu took 84! But I don't know any other numbers.

Congrats hottytoddy! OleMissGlitter said that AOII took 85!

Ole Miss fraternity results
 

I case you are interested, The ATO chapter at Ole Miss that suffered three deaths in the recent fire pledged 53 men this week. Other results were Beta Theta Pi-32

More results-Ole Miss
 

Kappa Alpha-59 Kappa Sigma-53 Phi Delta Theta-50 Phi Kappa Psi-26 Pi Kappa Alpha-56 Sigma Alpha Epsilon-28 Sigma Chi-57 Sigma Nu-77 Sigma Phi Epsilon-42 Delta Kappa Epsilon-24

We pledged 37 total. Congrats to everyone on their rush classes.

The usually intiate just about all of their pledges and the women do the same as well...

That's surprising to me -- especially with the men, but even with the women. I talked to a woman at one SEC school who said that although their pledge classes were generally around 70-75 women, it would be surprising if more than 50-60 of them were initiated. And obviously the sororities are losing people somewhere along the line if most of them top out around 250 -- assuming a pledge class of 80 for four years, if they weren't getting a number of deactivations, that number would top out around 320 (!).

80 girls? OMG, from a ritual stand point that must take freaking days!!!

Our pledge classes are around 50-ish, and it doesn't take days ;) :)

Well, I guess that kinda depends. My pledge class was 67 or so, and it only took us an evening (not going into exact times here) to initiate all of us. Same for my roomate, who was a Gamma Phi. But our suitemates were Chi O's, and they took 4 days to initiate all their girls (one of them was the first day, the other the 3rd). I guess it just depends on how involved your initiation ritual is.

Oh, if you have a couple extra goats and inner tubes I think it goes pretty fast. ;)

hey everyone, i would respectfully request that we get away from the ritual talk because I know it's making some GCers uncomfortable.

I apologize. I posted against my better judgement! One of those, even though everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right, kind of things. Sorry for anyone I offended.

Are they virgin goats?

Vanderbilt?
 

I know Vandy does their recruitment in the spring, so does anyone know how everything went there?

*hijack from previous post*

Don't know how things are at Vandy, but our chapter has picked up 5 girls this semster though COR! Yay! Our goal for the semester is 20; looks like a good start!