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Originally Posted by Football Fan
When over 850 are registered and not even 600 pledge it is not good for the Panhellenic system, in my opinion. I agree it would have been much better to have the schedule go from 4 to 2.
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I think 5 to 2 can work effectively, but it is a tough cut for both PNMs and the chapters. My much bigger concerns are:
- Recruitment parties going until 1am in the morning! I'm sure that a TON of women were just too exhausted from the process and didn't have the emotional resiliency to deal with the bumps in the road of recruitment
- Upperclasswomen. If I'm not mistaken, USC accepts second-semester freshmen transfers as well as traditional transfer students. The freshman transfers typically have to wait until fall of their sophomore year to go through recruitment because not all chapters have COB spots available in the spring. I'm curious how many of the women who dropped out were upperclasswomen who received heavy cuts in the later rounds.
Last year UCLA started an upperclasswoman quota that was separate from freshman quota, with the hope of more sophomores and juniors being placed. The panhellenic advisor kept seeing a high drop out rate before preference of predominantly upperclasswomen. Retention increased last year and quota went from mid-30's in 2007 to mid-40's in 2008.
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