Worried Mom

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Ole Miss Mother

I guess I misunderstood some information I received regarding numbers. For example if around 800 girls go through rush, quota may be 80 or so, and there are 9 sororities at Ole Miss. Does that mean the other girls did not get even make it to bid night? I'm just trying to figure this all out; it has been a long time since I was in college! I just don't want to set my daughter up for the impossible.

Don't get hornswaggled by some of the things you may see online..

"3000 girls signed up for rush and only 800 got bids!"
"We have the most competitive rush in the country, only 25% of rushees receive a bid!"

A lot of the people who say these things are either trying to make their Greek system sound more prestigious than it is, or don't know what they are talking about. The "3000 girls" may include girls whose grades didn't measure up and were cut because of that, or women who went to the opening info sessions and dropped out. They were never really IN rush to begin with so it's kind of misleading to say they "didn't get a bid."

Quota is the number of rushees after either pref or the next to last round (sorry, I always screw this up) divided by the number of sororities. Period. If 800 girls are at pref, quota will be 88. Quota is a changeable number - they do not "cap" it just because there are more rushees going through than usual.