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Originally Posted by OTW
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Is it weird to question whether all 17 chapters doing open houses necessarily equals all 17 giving bids?
What does "participating"really mean, unless this recruitment is a second formal with even groups above total getting to give more bids?
That could work out really well if the spring quota is pretty small AND groups below total get to give additional bids up to total plus whatever number quota is.
I think this is probably a really good thing although I doubt the January admits are really the driving force behind it. Has anyone seen a newspaper article about that trend or program? UGA is generally considered over-enrolled in the fall, I think, and while I'm sure the university would be eager to balance numbers between the two big semesters, I think it's really unlikely that they would address the issue by admitting enough new freshmen to have it work out. To me, it would make a lot more sense to offer more upper level classes needed for graduation only in the spring. However, I can totally see the pressure being on UGA to admit more qualified kids who want to go there and so they offer more admissions in January when they seem to have more space.
For whatever my random opinion is worth, I think the spring recruitment thing is much more about the groups and how to get more people to participate in spring recruitment than it is about responsiveness to parental concerns about when the January admits rush. (If it's a big enough number of kids to influence recruitment policy at UGA at the Greek Life level, it's a big enough group of kids for the GLOs to figure out how to handle on their own.)