Hey y'all,
Sorry that I haven't been online to give y'all details this week. I just got back from DZ's pledging in ceremony, and this is really the first time that I've had a chance to sit at the computer for more than 15 minutes at a time.
I'm very pleased to announce that Delta Zeta made quota, which was set at 59. Only 8 of the 18 sororities on campus made quota this year. The ones that I know of are Delta Zeta, ADPi, Phi Mu, A Chi O, AOPi and Theta.
I was told by the girls tonight that Pi Phi, DG, Tri Delt, KD, KKG, AGD and D Phi E did not make quota. The other sororities I'm not sure about... Some of those that didn't make quota came as a big shock to a lot of people because they are considered "top" houses on UGA's campus.
I believe that some of the reasons behind the high number of chapters not making quota this year are the following:
1) Panhellenic switched the order of parties this year, which made House Tours the 2nd round and Skit Day the 3rd round. So, if a chapter's house wasn't extremely impressive, then that may have made a difference. (I know that sounds extremely shallow, but after 2 rounds of Rush, the rushees have to cut a total of 12 houses and they don't have much to go on other than superficial reasons at that point.)
2) Panhellenic made mandatory cuts before 3rd round much more drastic this year than in years past. Their reasoning was that, with 1220 girls going through this year, it would be wrong for houses to be able to invite back a ton of girls to 3rd round all the while knowing that they wouldn't be able to offer bids to the majority of them.
3) MANY girls dropped out of Rush after 3rd Round -- a much higher number than usual. I believe that this is largely related to the severe cuts mandated by Panhellenic -- a lot of quality girls were knocked out of the running by some of the higher tier houses that they were counting on, so they dropped out of Rush instead of going to Pref parties at houses that they weren't interested in.
4) I believe that quota was set a little high. It was 50 last year, and the difference between the number of rushees last year and the number of rushees this year simply wasn't large enough to merit such an increase in quota. This, however, is my own personal opinion.
At any rate, I believe that all of the houses did a great job with Rush this year and that they should all be proud of their hard work -- regardless of whether or not they made quota!!