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Old 08-27-2007, 07:51 PM
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Purdue Recruitment

Purdue recruitment started this past weekend and goes through next weekend...I know one girl going through.

Here's pictures from the house tours/first round:
http://www.purdueexponent.org/media/...-27-07.swf-958

Just so you can see what girls in the midwest are wearing to first round!

Good luck to EVERY pnm going through recruitment!
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:03 PM
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Purdue recruitment started this past weekend and goes through next weekend...I know one girl going through.

Here's pictures from the house tours/first round:
http://www.purdueexponent.org/media/...-27-07.swf-958

Just so you can see what girls in the midwest are wearing to first round!

Good luck to EVERY pnm going through recruitment!
my mom was a Theta at Purdue in the 40's, are they still on campus? by the way the attire is slightly different than SEC rush!
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:15 PM
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my mom was a Theta at Purdue in the 40's, are they still on campus? by the way the attire is slightly different than SEC rush!
Yes, Kappa Alpha Theta is still on campus and they're a great group. Consistently in the top 5 for grades and very active in campus activities.
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:31 PM
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Some midwest schools are competative, but it's not like the SEC. Houses are much more diverse than the SEC and there are more houses on a lot of larger school's campuses. In the Big 10, there each are pretty large (not like SEC schools, though). When I went through Rush, there were 20 houses, with 105 in each.

Miami U, which is a MAC school, has about 20 houses with 160-180 in each, and that school is considered competitive.

It was actually fun to go through rush. Due to the diversity, you knew you could fit into nearly any house. Out of the three that I preffed, I would have been happy at any of the houses. I'm glad I got my number one, but wouldn't have stressed out if I didn't get my number one.

My friend, who went to Cornell in the 90s had over 300 in her house. There were 23 houses on her campus at that time. You can do the math. Another friend who went to DePauw would have been happy with any of her last 4 houses she attended.

I hate to use the word, "competititve" because it is and it isn't. Let's just say that people don't live and die by getting in the "it" sorority in the Midwest.
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Old 08-27-2007, 09:25 PM
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My friend, who went to Cornell in the 90s had over 300 in her house. There were 23 houses on her campus at that time. You can do the math.
As far as NPC sororities, Cornell has only chartered 18 NPCs in its entire existence. The most it had on campus at any one time in the 1990s was 14 NPC chapters. I'm from a large midwestern campus (University of Illinois) so I get your point, though.
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Old 08-27-2007, 10:13 PM
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Yay for a Purdue thread!! I have advised there the last two years and will really miss helping out this year. Two friends are still advisors so I'll try to get some info for everyone. I lived next door to the Chi Omega house and could always hear their chanting during rounds.
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Old 08-27-2007, 10:31 PM
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As far as NPC sororities, Cornell has only chartered 18 NPCs in its entire existence. The most it had on campus at any one time in the 1990s was 14 NPC chapters. I'm from a large midwestern campus (University of Illinois) so I get your point, though.
Maybe she was including the fraternity houses that were on campus, too? Those are part of Greek Life, as well. No idea though.
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Old 08-27-2007, 10:46 PM
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Maybe she was including the fraternity houses that were on campus, too? Those are part of Greek Life, as well. No idea though.
No, there are way more fraternities than that. My understanding is that Cornell is the largest fraternity system, and Illinois is the largest sorority system, both measured by number of members.
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Old 08-28-2007, 06:27 AM
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I hate to use the word, "competititve" because it is and it isn't. Let's just say that people don't live and die by getting in the "it" sorority in the Midwest.
Sounds like a much more reasonable way to do things if you ask me! We in the South have strange priorities!
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:18 AM
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Just to clarify what my friend told me of Cornell in the early 90s...
-The 20+ sororities included non-PHC groups
-300 was the number in her house in the early 90s. She is aware that they are smaller now.
-She mentioned there were somthing like 80 in her pledge class
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Old 08-29-2007, 05:05 PM
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Sounds like a much more reasonable way to do things if you ask me! We in the South have strange priorities!
I totally agree about the strange priorities in the South! I think too much emphasis is put on the wrong things, and girls get so upset when they don't get a bid to the "perfect" sorority. I love seeing the diversity in the Midwest.
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Old 09-09-2007, 09:14 AM
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Miami U, which is a MAC school, has about 20 houses with 160-180 in each, and that school is considered competitive.
Miami has 17 chapters and is very competitive. Also, before we start knocking Midwest rush attire, PNMs at Miami dress up wayyyy more than the girls in the Purdue pictures

Congrats to the Purdue chapters...one of my sister's friends is an active Theta there.
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Old 09-09-2007, 10:38 AM
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I think it's great that they all wore the same shirts, with jeans or jean skirts. It levels the playing field in terms of attire, at least. I think that's great for the first round. With denim, you can still appear well put together, or play it more casual.

I would love to see what they wore for the remaining rounds.
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Old 08-29-2007, 03:41 PM
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My little sister has been super-busy with rush (from the other side) at Purdue over the last week. It's her first real fall rush -- she rushed her freshman year but got sick halfway through and had to drop out, joined via informal rush that spring, and didn't get to rush on the other side last fall because she's in the engineering co-op program and was working that semester. It sounds like Purdue rush is pretty exhausting -- when I rushed at Wisconsin, we never had more than four parties a night, but at Purdue, it sounds like they sometimes have more than twice that.

I'll be down in West Lafayette visiting my sister next weekend, so I'm sure I'll get some rush gossip then.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Cornell houses did have up to 300 members at one time. At my school, which has 11 sororities, the largest of which is about 130-135 members -- even as recently as the early/mid-90s we had more sororities than that, the biggest of which had about 200 members. The smallest sororities then were the same size as the biggest now. Numbers have definitely gone down.
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My little sister has been super-busy with rush (from the other side) at Purdue over the last week. It's her first real fall rush -- she rushed her freshman year but got sick halfway through and had to drop out, joined via informal rush that spring, and didn't get to rush on the other side last fall because she's in the engineering co-op program and was working that semester. It sounds like Purdue rush is pretty exhausting -- when I rushed at Wisconsin, we never had more than four parties a night, but at Purdue, it sounds like they sometimes have more than twice that.
Your sister's that old already?

Sheesh. It seemed like only yesterday that all her recs were being sent in!!!
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