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Okay, it's time to take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouths. It's reached the point that all empathy and patience has been consumed by the whining and rumor mongering. Dee said it, just above, and others have also said this nicely, multiple times, earlier in this Thread That Will Not Die. Here it is, no frills:

1) Membership selection is private. A chapter can issue a bid to whomever they want. Period. What happens after that is internal and is chapter business, including whether or not a new member has the required GPA. End of story.

2) IU chapters do not operate on a quota/total system. The individual chapters can take as many or as few members as they want. Got it? A chapter can choose, after formal recruitment, to bid whomever they want (including women who did not go through FR). Again, that is chapter business.

3) Stop making excuses for 18 year olds not understanding the meaning of "maximize options." There is a difference between dropping out of recruitment when you still have invitations, and going all the way through in good faith (including Preference), filling out the MRABA, and not receiving a bid. A HUGE difference. That is the crux of the issue; that is the sticking point of bed rush. That is what we NPC alumnae are saying. Bed rush: one campus in the entire NPC uses it. Animal Farm, anyone?

IBTL.