I can confirm it did happen this year to my daughter. It makes me sick to my stomach in disgust. As the former president of the IFC at another school, we could have done a lot to disenfranchise the group who displayed this type of rude and boorish behavior that reflects poorly on the Greek system as a whole. I'll never look on this group again with anything but contempt.

Quota is 65

Hopefully your daughter didn't go forward with this house if this is how you feel. Good Luck to your daughter today.

Of course not. She dropped them like a hot rock.

Thanks for the best wishes. She is very happy and excited about all who were on her pref list

Good for her.

Good luck on her bid day!

Let us know where she lands

To expand on Quota...52 freshman 13 upperclassman for 65

I am really shocked at how low quota is at a flagship school of the size of UT.

Quota has gone down at UT without expansion. Last year it was 70 (56+14).

Is Sigma Delta Tau participating in formal recruitment this year? Perhaps that is the reason for the decrease? If a chapter that didn't use to formal recruit begins, it's bound to have the same effect as a colonization, no?

The number of PACE girls could have affected it as well. Of course that is one thing we will not know. According to another site Sigma Delta Tau did participate.

I just got back from UT recruitment. SDT did fully participate, but they did last year as well. If everyone takes full quota, then 910 placements against 1,268 signups (from this site) and a 72% placement rate.

Not a great rate. Of course, it includes PNMs who withdrew of their own accord for their own reasons.

IMO the rate is so low because of drop out. For many girls once the big six is off their schedules, they quit. Which is a huge shame because there are some amazingly strong chapters at UT outside the Big Six, I might even go out on a limb and say even stronger chapters. But old traditions die hard and if it is better to be out of letters in order to satisfy what they think so pecking order, then so be it.

How many were registered? Doesn't UT have a HUGE undergraduate student body?

Oh my. Haven't posted in forever, but I see that things at Texas have become more "interesting" than ever.

I lived in Dallas from the mid 80-s to 2003, and during that time I volunteered as Rec Chairman for one of the suburban Panhellenics. The theatrics that went on were like no where else. Alabama and Ole Miss? Pshaw. Child's play. Good manners and politeness rule the day, as they do at almost every "southern" school, and at most of the other Texas schools as well.

The problem at Texas is that some of the "top" houses have hundreds of legacies and cannot take every one of them. Not even a legacy to the UT chapter has an easy time of it. And no house wants a class of only legacies. Many girls whose Mothers and Grandmothers are determined that their baby will be a - - - like them will send them to a respectable out of state school where they may have an easier path pledging the house and then transferring to UT after their first year and they've already been initiated.

But these shenanigans you all are speaking of are rude and inexcusable. And they will come back to haunt these houses. There will be one girl here or there who slips through and becomes a huge embarrassment, it will cause gossip (gasp!) in her hometown and on campus and soon girls will cut them. If only the PNM's would get together if they found themselves in the "wrong room" and just get up and do a walkout right then and there. Shades of Animal House anyone?