[IUGreekGirl]

A couple things--

Recruitment stye: 1st round is the first weekend in December and the rest of recruitment takes place the 2nd week of January before spring semester begins. A lot of this has to do with the fact that grades are a huge factor in many chapter's decisions on who should be on their bid list. New members will be initiated around early March usually depending on their national's regulations. The new pledge class does not move into the chapter house until the next school year.

Housing: Each house has its own rules for who lives in and who doesn't. In my chapter- Freshman still live in their dorms, sophomores and juniors live in and seniors write a letter to housing corp. to request to live out. Senior year is spent living in an off-campus house, usually with other sisters but occasionally with non-Greek friends. Some girls will live-in senior year out of convenience though. But there are chapters that make all seniors live in (Tri-Delta being one).

Bed Quota: The chapter takes the number of juniors who plan to live out next year and that determines the size of the pledge class. We do not give out bids to more girls than we have beds for. However there are girls that receive bids who decide that Greek isn't for them and they drop out. They cannot accept a bid to any other house. If a girl drops, the chapter will issue a bid to the next girl on their bidlist who did not receive a bid from another house. Another route is for a recruitment director to invite girls that did not get a bid over for events and they choose which girls they issue bids to. This way, all 19 chapters will end up making quota.

Location of Greek Houses: They aren't that far removed from campus and they're mostly concentrated on one street on the north side. There is a bus that runs about every 5 minutes. It's actually nice to live on North Jordan- there's a lot of camaraderie between Greek members since we all live so close together.


It is painfully obvious that IU needs (at least) two more sororities. However there isn't any land to build a new chapter house. The other problem is that the social atmosphere of all living together is a big part of the Greek experience at IU. A lot of women wouldn't be interested in rushing if they didn't get the housing option.


Any more thoughts?