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Originally Posted by 33girl
I don't think that a few days at 19 party meeting sorority members and deciding whether or not you want to go forward is a "waste of time." They actually have TIME to think about it, which seems more and more foreign these days - one of the reasons I hate these 3 day rushes, you get caught up and don't have time to think about what you really want.
I can't imagine what a nightmare all-informal recruitment would be at a school with so many sororities. That can work if there are 1 or 2 groups on campus, but not 19.
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Well, it doesn't say that all those women are dropping out on their own. It sounds like a significant number are probably being released from recruitment along the way. Since they don't follow the traditional NPC formal recruitment model, there's nothing to stop the sororities from cutting the majority of women who come through. If it was your chapter, would you want to do membership selection involving 1,000 or 500 women when you could easily get away with whittling it down to just 50? For instance, if one house only needs to fill 15 beds, they're going to release a ton of women if release figures aren't used. Of course if a woman goes through recruitment and withdraws because it's not for her, it's not a waste of time. But what about the women who go through all rounds, then suddenly don't get a bid in the end?
ETA: I agree that informal recruitment would be a nightmare with 19 sororities. But let's be honest here: most women going through recruitment at IU apparently don't have a shot at getting into all of the chapters anyway. My point was what they've got right now doesn't really sound very formal, anyway...without a set quota, I doubt they use release figures, right?