On the topic of how many upperclassmen are accepted during rush, I thought this was interesting:
I believe quota here is about 35 or so? I'm not entirely sure. But regardless, my pledge class of 31 people didn't quite make it. However, more than half of the girls in my pledge class were sophomores when we were initiated. I thought this was great, and assumed it was fairly normal, that all chapters should take about half and half each year, to keep it fair and minimize cliques and separations between pledge classes. But I guess it's not all like that. I was talking to a girl from another house recently, one that made quota (and probably a few extra) and I told her how many sophomores (now juniors) were in my pledge class, and her jaw dropped as she said, "Really?! We only have 2!". I was amazed by this, it just seems so elitist to me. I find it very hard to believe that one house just happened to find 35 freshman girls that were so much better than any of the sophomores who were rushing last year (and there were
quite a few!). It sucks that chapters still seem to pay more attention to getting a lot of freshmen instead of slightly older girls...it's just not fair sometimes.
