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Originally Posted by KDCat
Sure. But Indiana is only placing about 60% of the women who start the process, and IU is dropping a bunch of them after pref. University of Illinois places around 97% of the women who go all the way through and don't drop out. There was a really great webpage that listed how many women were dropped at U of I, but the school deleted it. Very few women at University of Illinois are dropped completely. Quite a few quit because they don't like their options, though, but that is on them.
I think guaranteeing a bid to women who maximize their options and are invited to pref would take a lot of heat off IU sororities.
If the IU sororities are worried about spaced, space could be created by asking for volunteers to live-out (seniors first, then juniors). Not everybody loves living in a house. I loved being in a sorority. I loved hanging out at the house. I didn't really love living in the house. If there aren't enough volunteers, the House Corp. or the chapter can prioritize who lives in. There are lots of ways to do that. Ie. all elected officers have to live in. After that, each pledge class chooses to live in or out based on initiation order or GPA or a random draw. It's honestly not a big deal.
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THANK YOU. I feel like half the people commenting on this thread know nothing about the peculiarities of IU. You can question how many girls maximized their options or how many suicided because that's an issue re: placement AT EVERY SCHOOL.
However, no other school places only 60% of women going through. That is madness and completely unpanhellenic. My chapter house slept around 45 women and was filled by elected officers and then whoever wanted to live in the house (usually out of the sophomore pledge class). Just because only 45 women actually slept there does not mean every other member wasn't welcome at the house whenever for lunch, dinner, and hanging out. I wish IU sorority members could get off their elitist high horses and realize that their way is wrong.
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