I was thinking this morning of a post in another thread which said:
I go to Indiana University, which has the largest and most competitive rush in the country. There are 19 houses here. Every year about 2000 girls go through rush, while about 800 get bids. Therefore, at IU you are actually a minority if you recieve a bid. Not all Greek systems place nearly all of their rushees.
This kind of bothers me. To me, it seems to be a real travesty that in the above situation, less than HALF of the rushees receive bids (assuming that there were no rushee dropouts, which of course there likely were).
Some people would probably say that if the sororities accomodated
every single rushee that wanted them that the chapters would get to be "too big". I'm not sure if "too big" is really a good or valid excuse...wouldn't it be better for the strength of the Greek system to accomodate as many girls as possible who have a sincere interest to belong to a NPC organization? It doesn't seem fair that sororities have 'ceilings' and that once they reach the ceiling, that's it, no more members for that year.
I think for girls who want to join, they should be allowed to join. It saddens me and it just seems very unfair that ceilings are set at these "bigger schools where rush is competitive" and end up denying this experience to women who want to join and go Greek.
It also sounds like U of Indiana does not have much COR going on after Formal Recruitment, as the groups all fill up to capacity right away, and there are so many rushees for so few spots? Why can't the capacity be 'unlimited'?
Please educate me! I'm looking forward to the discussions!
NPC Rush - Can something be done to reduce/eradicate the number of "bidless" rushees?
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