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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
2. Why can't the schools where many women need to be cut due simply to lack of space (SEC schools come to mind here) simply raise quota and ceiling to help accommodate more people?
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I'm sorry, but I've never accepted that the reason so many women get cut at SEC schools (and others w/ similar Rushes) is due to lack of space.
Quota=[#rushees at end of rush]/[#chapters]
So if a school starts w/ 1500 rushees and 20 chapters, quota will be 75 as long as there's still 1500 rushees at the end.
Rushees drop out and yes there are girls that get cut from every house. There's umpteen reasons for that.
Does anyone honestly believe that if a girl gets cut from every single house right off the bat it's simply because of space? I don't think so. There are some girls that just shouldn't be in any sorority anywhere. And there are girls that would make fantastic members but just not at their present school. Every schools Greek system is different. A girl could get snapped up by "the best" at one and not even looked at twice by "the worst" at another.
I honestly believe that the reason the rush dropout rate is so high at SEC schools is because the rushees decide what chapters they want long before they get to campus. A girl gets cut by her top choices and she gives up. The other chapters aren't good enough. And that's not fair.
Think about it. If a chapter that isn't a top tier becomes more aggressive in their cutting they can end up hurting themselves.
Say ABC is the "IT" house and XYZ it "THAT" house. XYZ decides that they need to up their status and figure the best way is to cut all the girls that wouldn't even have a shot at ABC. That means XYZ will be inviting all the same girls ABC is inviting plus the ones that for unimaginable reasons ABC decides just aren't right for them at this time.
Rhonda Rushee really really wants to be ABC. She meets XYZ and thinks they're nice. But she knows that she'd rather be GDI than XYZ.
ABC thinks Rhonda's okay but decides to cut her for some mysterious reason. XYZ thinks that Rhonda is God's gift to Rush and would be thrilled to have her.
Rhonda picks up her invites and is crushed that ABC dropped her. She's also upset that XYZ would invite her back. Don't they know that she couldn't be one of them. So Rhonda, and her 20 friends that also got dropped by ABC but invited by XYZ drop out of rush altogether!
So now what you have is 21 girls that could have had a bid at XYZ; could have been sisters w/ each other; could have, should have been Greek. But nope, they'd rather be GDI than XYZ. They could have all been XYZ together!!!! And XYZ is left w/ less than quota because the rushees were so self obsessed they failed to realize that they could have been the pledge class that helped turned XYZ from "that" to "it".
This happens all the frickin time and it pisses me off!!!
k I'm kind of rambling now.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that if a school has a lot of chapters and a ton of rushees but you get massive drop out rates or no bid match
AND have chapters not making quota; then imho you've got a bigger problem w/ the rushees than w/ the chapters. Yes the chapters aren't perfect. But they want rushees to join not to quit.
Also, you shouldn't really have to raise total. If
all the chapters are at total plus then add a chapter.