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Originally posted by DeltaBetaBaby
Not Illinois, Indiana. Not my school, and I am sure someone else can explain it better, but different chapters are meant to be different sizes based on housing.
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Chapters at IU self-limit based upon the size of their houses. If they have 20 seniors graduate, they they will take 20 new members the next year (I'm making up the numbers but the gist of it is that each chapter votes on the number of bids they will give). They do not use quota/total-- if they simply used the standard quota methods, chapters would easily be twice the size they are now because so many women go through recruitment. So yes, women going through recruitment at IU know there are far more participants than there are bids that will be available. As to why there are not more groups on campus, I would guess that it has to do with housing availability/ costs-- I don't know if there has been expansion discussion, I've only been privy to discussions about the concept of self-limited recruitment (and IU is not the only campus that does it.... unless something has changed recently, Ohio State does as well)