University of Illinois Rush
 

Some of ya'll expressed interest, and seeing as how this is the largest Panhellenic in the country, I am giving my alma mater its own thread.

There will be no specific chapter info, because doing so could give away things like affiliations of RX's and Panhellenic officers, and though this board appears Illini-free, I will not risk it.

1. One of the groups here, XYZ, decided to recolonize. Every member of their chapter took alum status in the spring, and they are recolonizing this fall. They will not participate in formal recruitment. They asked Panhellenic for a moratorium on COB from the other chapters all semester, but only got it for three weeks (per the green book) beginning one week after bid day. There are other chapters on campus that will not be at total even if they get quota in formal recruitment. XYZ had a speaker at orientation, and I believe they will be participating in the first round of recruitment.

2. As of the first day of classes, registration was very low. Only about 750 women were signed up. We usually have around 1100 women participate. The sororities went on a massive push to improve numbers, and by orientation, there were 1200 girls.

Other random facts about my school's rush:

We use PRUSH, having switched from SORUSH three years ago.

The website, www.illinigreeks.com, lets you register on-line with a credit card and find your group number/ID number.

We have:

AChiO
ADPi
AEPhi
AGD
AOPi
APhi
ChiO
Tri-Delt
DG
DZ
GPhiB
Theta
KD
KKG
Phi Mu
Phi Sig
Pi Phi
SDT
SK

Quota has been:

2002-49
2001-43
2000-48
1999-50

Penn State has more groups, but we have more women.

PRUSH means the PNM's rank the chapters before seeing invites, SORUSH means they see all invites and choose.

Okay, 95 women dropped out after the first round. This means that they did not rank their houses at the end of open houses. This is BEFORE they see any type of invites, which is a bit upsetting. I have no idea how many dropped when they picked up their schedules for round 2.

Do you know how many women normally drop out after first round? That seems like a HUGE number!

It Boggles My Mind
 

It boggles my mind to think of how Rush would be for a campus with this many GLOs would be on both sides of the rush coin. Tell me,b/c I am from the sticks, lol, the rushees rate which houses they would like to see before going on round #1 and then from their ratings, their round #1 isdetermined? And, how many days of round #1 parties do they have then?

It has been so long since I have thought about Rush and Pahnellenic and quota and total...

Losing 95 after first round is really nothing. It is typical at U of I to start with about 1200 and match about. It may seem like a lot, but chapters that are getting classes close to 50 don't really care.

On a side note, I just noticed that 3 different Panhellenic officers still have letters in their AIM profiles.

wow, another phi sig chapter


with number like 95 dropping
i would think you guys needed another sorority on campus

Not necessarily. The women who dropped out might just have not liked the rush process in general, decided they don't have the time or money, realized it would take too much time with their class load, or decided they are going to transfer at the end of the semester.

We get at least 100 girls that drop out of rush, sometimes closer to 200 -- but the majority of those drop out before first round is even over. They realize it's not for them, that rush is too much of a time commitment, that they can't afford it or that they'd rather wait to rush as a sophomore or in the spring. I imagine the same factors are at play at Illinois.

A lot of girls who drop rush again their sophomore year, from what I heard...I have a friend who was in the aforementioned XYZ chapter.

Well, as I mentioned, there is one group that is not participating in formal recruitment this year, so I don't know if some of the women will go that direction.

In my opinion, that group should leave and we should think about something brand new*** instead of that group trying to come back this year.

(***By brand new, I mean gone at least 5 years, but preferably with earlier history on our campus.)

I'm curious--what are your reservations about that group coming back this year? Without ID'ing details or names, of course! Sometimes, a sorority just needs reorganization time to come back active and involved on campus. It can be a very positive thing, and I hope it'll be that way for Illinois.

Christin
(of course, now I'm off to find out who's coming back there this year...may as well be honest about that!)

The problem is that you can not shake a reputation by "reorganizing."

I agree with you - especially because so many girls from XYZ are left on that campus and I think the reorganizing is going to offend/hurt them.