I am new to this site, and just happened to see the posts about Texas A&M. I pledged ADPi at A&M in '94. I'm a bit surprised that someone would call our chapter "horrible", but I guess everyone has their own opinions!
When I pledged, the chapter was one of the largest at A&M. I know this because I was EVP and had to submit all the paperwork to Panhellenic, etc. I think we averaged about 190? We were always highly involved in campus activities and always did well in grades. In fact, I believe ADPi, ChiO and Theta were the first chapters colonized at A&M in the 70s. For those of you who don't know, A&M was an all-male military school up until the 60s. My next door neighbor was actually the first ChiO pledge at A&M--I think that means she was the first "match" in the process the first year that had rush!
The chapter was very diverse, and still is. We were called "the girls next door". Some thought we weren't as "social" as other in regards to fraternity relations since many of our members seemed to date only members of the corps of cadets!
I can tell you that the year after I pledged, we did not make quota, but were able to snap bid to make up for it. For the next 2-3 years, the chapter did extremely well in rush. I do know the chapter has had trouble making quota for the last couple of years, partly due to the colonizations of DG and KD.
Overall, I think A&M has a pretty competitive rush process. It's spread out over 5 days, and most of the rushees have multiple legacies. We always had several in-house legacies rushing. By the way, my younger sister pledged TriDelt at A&M when I was senior. Ouch!
Anyway, the chapter does have a website:
www.aggieadpi.com.