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Originally Posted by greekcheek
APhiAnna, which schools are you referring to? im thinking of rushing at UCLA as a junior and was curious if it was competitive or not
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UCLA is competitive for a California school, but not nearly as competitive as USC. For UCLA, get recs because although they aren't the norm they would definitely help you.
From how I understand it, previously it was very difficult for a junior to get a bid. This year, for the first time, they had separate upperclassman quotas, so essentially they had a quota for freshmen and then an upperclassman quota (and to be fair I don't know if there was a separate one for sophomores and juniors, or just one overall). Because of that new quota system many juniors were able to pledge with minimal cuts. I do not know if they are sticking with that system or not...it gave them much bigger pledge classes than normal which was popular with some chapters and unpopular with others.
But the moral of the story is that especially if they keep the new quota system, you should not have that hard of a time. It is somewhat competitive though, so get recs, keep an open mind and definitely get some killer outfits (Los Angeles, and SoCal in general, usually means "classy with a touch of trendy").