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33girl hit most of the big points. We would use recs if we got them but generally if there was someone coming through who was either a legacy or a friend, who was interested in our chapter, we knew about her in advance and didn't need the recs. One big difference from what she listed though is that at Kent, there was no way everyone got a bid. It was especially brutal the year I rushed because although Tri-sig figured in for quota computation, they did not actually participate in formal rush. So there were all these leftover girls at the end who didn't get bids, and Tri-Sig tried to snap bid everyone. But even after that year there would still be a lot of girls who didn't get a house. It seems to me that most of the schools described on GC had a number of "strong" or "popular" houses, especially if they were a big school, but then two or three times that number in other houses so that the members of the less prestigious houses don't feel so conspicuous. Not so at Kent. There were only 3 prestige houses, where most of the rushees wanted to go from the start, one mediocre house, and two weaker chapters. The prestige houses tended to get the higher numbers, and since there wasn't much else to choose from a lot of girls suicided/and or dropped out. I have a friend who went to the U of Wis. at Madison and she told me that they had like 2 or 3 super elite houses, then a huge middle tier, and then just a handful of really poor image chapters. That would seem to me to be the ideal situation. In the South it seems to me that if there are 10 houses, for example, 7 of them are very selective and prestigious and then the other 3 are the opposite.
Akron U, which is only 20 minutes from KSU, had basically the same setup we did except the chapters that were really hot at Kent (Chi O, Alpha Phi, Dee Gee) were not so great and then they had some houses that we didn't (KKG, AGD, ADII, Theta)
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