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Originally Posted by suzy88
My daughter rushed in 2011-12. She didn't get a bid. When she asked about informal recruitment, she was told there would be none, because everyone made their numbers! I saw the email from Panhellenic that stated that. I do not know about the other years, but I've heard that they were the same. I agree that women drop because they didn't get their favorites and that is a problem.
However, even if all women maximized their options on this campus, many women would be left out in the cold. Please don't blame the victims for the current situation at IU. They need a system where the number of bids is based on the number of women participating.
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Victims is a ridiculous word to use, IMHO. Just because no one was doing Informal does NOT mean no one had spots unfilled at the end of recruitment. With supply and demand the way it is, chapters needing a few girls need only make a few calls to fill their houses. (This also belies the claim that the unhoused chapters take everyone, huh?) You are missing a huge point in all of this. Opening up recruitment to normal market forces like most campuses use will still mean that most of these unhappy women will still end up in the SAME chapters they are unhappy to be offered invitations to currently. Having more spots open won't suddenly change your desirability. It's not a huge conspiracy against these individual women. Instead, they need to look at these chapters and see them in the light that they want people to look at the PNMs that feel disenfranchised and unloved. They are doing to those chapters EXACTLY what they accuse the more desired chapters of doing to them. The only real "victims" are the women who are completely released with no options at all. If you don't take an opportunity given to you, then that is your CHOICE. No one is crying for you. We all make choices in life no matter how imperfect. Some choices are just harder to live with than others.