[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally Posted by AGDee

This has been discussed a lot about Ole Miss and Alabama on this board, who rival Auburn in the "competitive" category. The reality is, there are enough spots for every woman who goes through recruitment if the women are willing to join any chapter. The stories we're hearing here aren't that women are cut from every chapter, but that they are upset after getting cut from their favorites or their legacy chapter. The addition of a new group doesn't prevent this. In fact, if you take the same number of PNMs and divide them among one additional group, that means that the most popular groups can take FEWER women. Many of the women going into recruitment at these schools ONLY want to be in what is considered the "top tier" sororities. You'll hear them talk about "old row" chapters being most desirable and being unwilling to join any other chapter. They also tend to look down on the smallest chapter as being undesirable. Yet, if that smallest chapter (at any school, really) took quota, the whole face of the chapter can change with that new member class.

Bottom line: It isn't that there aren't enough spots for all the women. The way quota is determined creates spots for all the women going through. Whether they can get into what they consider "THE sorority" is another story...

Exactly. Sometimes I think it's the PNM's who are shallow and superficial and not the recruitment process........