Vandy rush

[FuzzieAlum]

Someone had asked how Vandy rush went, but I can't find the thread. An article is in today's Hustler on the topic. I'm too lazy to type it all, but it says that fewer women got bids this year because more SIPed. Last year, 534 registered and 496 completed, whereas this year 518 registed and 478 completed. (If I did the math right, last year 93% completed, and this year 92% did, which is hardly a statistically significant trend! So even if more women suicided, it didn't cut down much on bids; only 25 girls made it to pref and ended up bidless.) The freshman class was also slightly smaller than last year, so the number of rushees being down isn't very significant, either.

Do these numbers sound weird to anyone else? Vandy is supposed to be a very competitive rush, so how do only 8 percent of girls go bidless? Even at my undergrad school, where rush was so not competitive, the dropout rate was higher (and in both cases it was spring rush). If nothing else, since you register in the fall, I would think more girls would be cut for first semester grades than that.

edited to add: The article says 25 girls went bidless after pref, which means only 15 girls were cut from rush before pref.