Boston U. '05 Bid Night
 

The 8 Boston University sororities participating in formal recruitment extended 240 bids, according to an article in the Daily Free Press Online (student paper, Jan. 26, 2005 issue). It looks like this produced pledge classes of around 30. The article doesn't give numbers for each chapter. Maybe some GCers in the know can provide more details. One of the Panhellenic Council vice presidents is reported as saying it was one of the best turnouts BU has ever seen -- 310 women registered.

A picture included with the story shows an Alpha Delta Pi being greted by her new sisters. I thought that might interest some of the ADPis on GC.

One night of recruitment parties was canceled because of the weather.

See

http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2...t-841690.shtml

(or you may want to search via Google News, the Yahoo news directory feature, or whatever's your choice of search engine)

My little sister actually got a bid to her 1st choice-ADPi, and she is in the picture, all the way in the left with the black shirt and jeans!

Sororities at Boston U. have generally done very well, at least since I joined the Greek system. This number, however, blows away the past figures that I've heard. Over 300 prospectives is amazing, especially at a school that traditionally has not been supportive of the Greek system.

Private I, congrats to your sister; I was friends with quite a few of the ADPi's when I was in school, they were a solid chapter.

Awesome news; glad to hear that my school's Greek system is still going strong.

Collin
- Boston U. Kappa Sig alum

Yay! That's awesome! I just had to giggle a little...

"'We have 30-girl pledge classes, which is huge.'"

I WISH everyone had 30-girl pledge classes...instead of 80 or 100...

Boston U. is a whole different story - if someone had an 80 or 100 member pledge class, I would die of shock.

private 1- congrats to your sister! i know several of adpis advisors and have heard good things!

Your sister's a cutie! Please tell her that we all welcome her to the Greek system!! (and to log onto GreekChat!)

congrats private 1
your sister is precious. may she have a wonderful wonderful time

Another congrats from here, Private I.

I'm glad someone else saw this article. It's one of the very few that spells out the recruitment process without any snide slanting from the usual suspects.

When I went through formal recruitment at BU in 1987 there were *maybe* 30-40 girls for 6 NPC chapters. (TriDelta, Alpha Phi, G Phi B, AEPhi, SDT, ADPi - DG was established a year later. SK returned after I graduated.) At most you had about 8 girls per new member class, assuming everyone got bids. On top of that, the Rho Chis weren't completely disaffiliated - many wore letters, etc.

Womens' Greek life at BU has come a LONG way in a relatively short time and with 30-girl NM classes, everyone must be bumping pretty close to total. (Which is 70, BTW)

From what I've seen the men's groups have been struggling w/ recruitment but with some elbow grease that could turn around as well.

GO TERRIERS!!!

On a somewhat related tangent, does anyone up in BU-land know if there is ever going to be an updated listing of GLO's websites? Or is the IFSC ever going to create one? (Speaking of helping the men and continuing to grow the Greek system, that would be square one, IMHO.)

--add
CAS 1990

yes, the new member classes were 30 at BU. Everyone Ive talked to there seems to be very pleased with results. Formal Recruitment has steadily improved in the past few years and I think that the greeks on BUs campus have really tried hard and mostly suceeded on improving the University's negative feelings towards GLOs.

I am an advisor to ADPi on BU campus and i am of course thrilled to meet all the new women in the coming month:)

IFSC had a site up a couple of years ago (my senior year), but that seems to have fallen inactive. It had pretty good info, with numbers, e-boards, etc. I'm not sure if there are any plans to create another site, but I haven't heard anything.

I'm sure there have been lots of letters into the FREEP about the evil side of Greek life and how Boston U. should just get rid of it all together. It wouldn't be a Greek life article at Boston U. without some hate mail towards fraternities and sororities.

Greek life has gone a long way, and hopefully will continue to do so. I know that most of the sororities were high in numbers while I was in school. Hopefully my chapter as well as the other fraternities can stay strong; I'd love to see Greek life become more of a force on campus.

Collin
- COM and CAS '03

Thank you everyone for the good wishes! She is in fact one of only I believe 4 sophomores that got a bid at all (I think that's what she said), so I'm super-excited for her, and she seems to be enjoying herself as well!

Try this: 30 is OVER our campus total..... Average pledge classes are 4-7 or so in the fall and even less in the spring

I second what my sister Honey has said - and congratulations to you, as a proud sister! :)

Hi guys! I'm Private I's sister! Thank you so much for the congratulations and the good wishes. I'm ecstatic about the choice I made, and I feel at home with the ADPis at BU. I'm not sure if there are a lot of BU greeks on GC, but I'd love to hear from them because our greek system is tiny!!!

Congratulations BostonADPi! Welcome to ADPi! Stop by the ADPi forum sometime :)

hi welcome to gc! congrats on adpi!!!

:)
from another bostonian

Congrats & welcome to GC!:)

Welcome to GreekChat, BostonADPi!! Hope you stop in at the ADPi Forum, and have some fun with us!

Congrats BostonADPI...BU greek here, I sent you a PM. You joined a great chapter, hope you're having a good time.

My pledge class had 8 women in it. When I was NMC, the largest I saw was 10. They made me want to pull my hair out. I think I would have cried a whole lot if I'd have had a pledge class of 30. I think I would have shot myself if I'd have had a pledge class of 80.

But... for a chapter of 40 women... 10 is like a quarter of the chapter.

Oh and I only preffed Alpha Gam because I went through informal recruitment and had already made up my mind... I didn't go to any of the other chapters (but I still love them and being a Rho Gam this past formal recruitment just made me love them more - soooo supportive).

I think I would cry with a NM class of 10 forget about more! We had our largest NM class since Fall 2001 get in this past semster (5) and it was crazy for the NME to figure out a meeting time and stuff.

I see what you mean about the groups and greek life needing to beef up their web marketing.

Unless I am missing something, the main Greek Life page doesn't have much info - http://www.bu.edu/admissions/experience/greek.html

Then when you click on 'Student Activities Office', only a few of the greeks have chapter websites (if the listing is up to date) --- if it is right then APhi is the only NPC sorority at BU with a site -- http://people.bu.edu/alphaphi/

Thanks to exlurker for this site.

Delta Delta Delta's Alpha chapter at BU - http://people.bu.edu/tridelta/delta_welcome.htm (Great site!)

According to the homepage announcement on the right, the chapter welcomed 17 new members for Spring 2005

Congrats on your bid into ADPi! We'd love to get to know you better - as my fellow sisters have said, stop by the ADPi forum anytime! :)

APhi isn't the only sorority with a site. I know at least a couple of the others have sites, although the exact addresses escape me at this moment.

The school does not play up Greek life at all, and as of a couple of years ago, there were many tour guides who would deny the existence of fraternities and sororities on campus.

My junior year a website was set up by the Student Activities Office, with the site being run by the IFSC and Greek advisor. The new advisor wanted to dramatically increase Greek life at BU, with bigger rush numbers, more campus exposure, all leading to the scene being more accepted by administration.

However, for a variety of reasons, the Greek advisor was removed. With the new IFSC and the new advisor, the website became less of a priority, for whatever reason. I don't believe the information was updated after my senior year, as I think I was still listed as President (which, since I'd graduated, was untrue).

I'm hoping that at some point the site will be put back up. However, I know that the IFSC has done a lot of work in other capacities to help out Greek Life at the school, and I'm sure a site will eventually re-appear.

Collin