[QUOTE]Originally posted by CutiePie2000:
[b]I was thinking this morning of a post in another thread which said:
I go to Indiana University, which has the largest and most competitive rush in the country. There are 19 houses here. Every year about 2000 girls go through rush, while about 800 get bids. Therefore, at IU you are actually a minority if you recieve a bid. Not all Greek systems place nearly all of their rushees.
I was Greek at Indiana University and I went through Rush 2 times. So I can tell you a little bit about IU's Rush.
While it is true that 2,000 women apply to go through Rush, MORE THAN HALF of them are cut for grades (by Panhellenic, across the board) after the first round of parties (which takes place before first sememster grades come in. Once those 1st semester grades come in, PanHell checks them against the list of registered rushees, and makes cuts accordingly).
So now you've got about 1,000 girls vying for 800 spots, and yes, it is very competitive.
In my first year of Rush, (when there were 21 NPC groups on campus), I NEVER got cut from a single house, and I ended up going to my first 2 choices for pref night (pref night was on a 2-party system then; it is on a 3-party system now), and I STILL didn't get a bid; I got cross-cut, which is a ridiculous thing that can happen, and is a fluke.
Well, I was devastated, but I got over it, and went through Rush again the next year, and ended up pledging the same house I had pref'd the year before. So it all worked out for me, and I really enjoyed my second year through Rush much better--I learned more, and made better decisions in forming my regret lists after each round of parties.
So, from 1,000 women, you have to get down to 800. That leaves 200 women without bids. It is truly a shame. As someone else mentioned, however, IU is missing at least 4 NPC groups that I can think of . . . Just in the time that I was there, we lost Tri-Sigma, Sigma Kappa, and AOPi . . . and at least on the part of the last two, it was NOT because they didn't have big and beautiful houses, because they did! In at least two of those cases, the women were poor recruiters. Their Rush skills were just totally lacking, and that was (perhaps) due to a lack of support from their Advisory Board, I assume. I did think it was a shame when each of them closed, 2 of them in particular, because I felt that they could have been great chapters with the right support from a number of directions.
Well, I don't know if I've shed any more light on this subject, but I thought I would give you my insight. IU's rush is big, but it is a wonderful, fun, supportive greek system. For years, IU's Panhell Council has wrestled with ways to fit 1,000 girls into 800 bids . . . and come up short every time. It is a shame, I know, but at this point there isn't much that can be done about it.
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I'm so happy that I am a
Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Nobody knows . . . how
happy I am!
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