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Originally Posted by JohnnyCash
I did a search but didn't come up with anything too relevant or recent.
I was wondering if fraternity members could chime with what their chapter standards were like for recruitment and, in specific, the voting process on extending bids- specifically chapters where all members have a vote.
What percentage of a positive vote does a rushee need in order to be extended a bid? And what percentage would be too inclusive, too selective, etc..
If you could also include how large your Greek community is/was with your post, to get an idea of your campus culture, I would appreciate it too.
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Mine is a little bit more complicated as I believe we are one of the few (if not the only) fraternity systems who utilize the sorority system of one round, cut, second round, cut, third round, cut, then finally we have our pledge class. We're much larger than a hundred people in a Greek system where we typically have around 600 rushees come through rush every year.
For the first two rounds of rush, the rush chairs are allowed to act dictatorially. Members will give names of people they want cut or protected, but really the rush chairs have a firmer grasp of the entirety of 600 people and who we want to cut in order to target our core group of rushees.
When it comes down to the final cuts, one blackball will cut someone...
theoretically. But in practice if the chapter feels like that "one blackball" is someone whose just being a dick, we'll take it to a vote. We try to limit a person to one blackball each. If several throw their black balls in the ring, then the guy is probably eliminated.
One blackball can take out a pledge before he's officially made a pledge. Once someone is made a pledge, then it takes 50+1% to get him kicked out. A pledge (or pledge class as what usually happens) needs 75% to get initiated in the final vote.
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