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Old 09-27-2012, 04:27 PM
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UCLA 2012 Recruitment

UCLA Recruitment started Tuesday, 9/25.

Schedule:
Tuesday, 9/25 - Open House Day (part 1) -- 11 parties total in 1st round
Wednesday, 9/26 - off day (Jewish holiday)
Thursday, 9/27 - Open House Day (part 2)
Friday, 9/28 - House Tours -- full round would be 8 parties
Saturday, 9/29 - Entertainment Round -- full round would be 5 parties
Sunday, 9/30 - Pref. (morning) -- full round would be 2 parties
Bid Night (7pm)

Here are the chapters at UCLA (alphabetical order):
Alpha Chi
ADPi
Alpha Phi
Chi O
Tri Delta
DG
Gamma Phi
Theta
KD
Kappa
Pi Phi

Total signing up for Recruitment is 845
(down just slightly from last year, which was 907)
After the 1st half of Open House round, 785 women are still in the process. Per Greek Life (I am quoting them) estimated quota is 58 (as of Thursday noon).

Prior to start of Recruitment, all chapters were at quota or very close.

Note: Alpha Gamma Delta is recolonizing at UCLA Fall of 2013. AGD kept their house (right next to Gamma Phi) and will be renovating this year (probably have already started).

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Old 09-27-2012, 05:04 PM
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Prior to start of Recruitment, all chapters were at quota or very close.
You mean total right?
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Old 09-27-2012, 08:11 PM
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Glad to hear they are all at or near total... about 10 years ago, most of the chapters were not and were doing COB every QUARTER.
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Old 09-27-2012, 08:27 PM
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Thanks for the updates! When you say that all houses are at or close to total (I assume you meant total instead of quota), which number is that? Isn't total floating and set after fall formal recruitment? And several chapters recruited in the spring.. were they all able to recruit up to total? That's unusual, but great news.

BTW... I'm going to put my money on Quota = 51.
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Old 09-28-2012, 09:00 AM
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Thanks for the updates! When you say that all houses are at or close to total (I assume you meant total instead of quota), which number is that? Isn't total floating and set after fall formal recruitment? And several chapters recruited in the spring.. were they all able to recruit up to total? That's unusual, but great news.

BTW... I'm going to put my money on Quota = 51.
Yes, meant Total.
My job starts at 2am (wake up at 12:30am). I was getting "fuzzy-brain" by 1:27pm Thursday.

Additionally, I corrected by 1st post that AGD is re-colonizing Fall 2013 (next year), not this fall.
The following school year -- predicted Fall 2014 -- Alpha Xi Delta will be re-colonizing at UCLA. They are working to secure housing on Hilgard Ave. (sorority row).

At one time, there were 23 sororities at UCLA (now 11 + AEPhi -- see footnote below) As chapters closed, many they sold their houses. While the W Hotel in Westwood now stands on what was 2 sororities lots, another few were torn down to become apartment buildings, but several became boarding houses (with little floorplan change). AZD is securing 1 of those boarding houses. The plans that were shown at the expansion presentations were gorgeous.

The hope is that, with a growing recruitment, other GLOs that are invited to UCLA will have the ability to purchase/lease the existing boarding houses (which were all originally sorority houses) and, one day, become a full sorority row once again. (And they lived happily ever after ...)


Footnote: AEPhi, from their HQ & local alumnae, wants to get back to their roots as a Jewish sorority. With permission of UCLA Panhellenic, they are not closing the chapter, but also not participating in Recruitment -- either formal or informal. In "Idle Mode" and will re-establish when they are ready.
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Old 09-28-2012, 11:44 AM
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A little surprised that the number of women that registered for recruitment was down from last year! My impression from reading GC this fall recruitment season is that registration numbers have been on an up-tick.

Also--would LOVE a UCLA recruitment story!!!! Fingers crossed!
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Old 09-28-2012, 12:13 PM
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Footnote: AEPhi, from their HQ & local alumnae, wants to get back to their roots as a Jewish sorority. With permission of UCLA Panhellenic, they are not closing the chapter, but also not participating in Recruitment -- either formal or informal. In "Idle Mode" and will re-establish when they are ready.
They still have some active sisters though, right?
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Old 09-29-2012, 02:01 PM
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They still have some active sisters though, right?
AEPhi current members may be taking alumnae status. I'll try to confirm that.

Today is 5 party day (Entertainment), then Sunday is Pref. (2 parties).
Since parties are going from 5 to 2, I'm sure you can imagine what that means .... (besides that I'll be up LATE to help with voting session).
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Old 09-29-2012, 02:17 PM
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My daughter went to ucla and it is a tough recruitment schedule for the actives. Parties go late into the evening (10:00 pm +), then voting, then take down and set up for the next day. The weekend is tough because they finish parties in the evening today and then have the first pref party tomorrow at 9:00 am!! Lists of who is coming to party #1 and party #2 usually arrive to rush chairs at around 4:00 am!! Then they do the matching for the parties!! Crazy!! They all manage to pull in off without a (visible) hitch though and they look beautiful all the while!!

Good luck to all of the UCLA sororities this year!!
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Old 09-29-2012, 03:52 PM
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My daughter went to ucla and it is a tough recruitment schedule for the actives. Parties go late into the evening (10:00 pm +), then voting, then take down and set up for the next day. The weekend is tough because they finish parties in the evening today and then have the first pref party tomorrow at 9:00 am!! Lists of who is coming to party #1 and party #2 usually arrive to rush chairs at around 4:00 am!! Then they do the matching for the parties!! Crazy!! They all manage to pull in off without a (visible) hitch though and they look beautiful all the while!!

Good luck to all of the UCLA sororities this year!!
Just a question -- has anyone ever likened this type of schedule to hazing (i.e. overwork and sleep deprivation)? I've never been through it, so I simply don't know.
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Old 09-29-2012, 04:31 PM
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Just a question -- has anyone ever likened this type of schedule to hazing (i.e. overwork and sleep deprivation)? I've never been through it, so I simply don't know.
I'm sure at some point someone has. I'm sure people have also compared hazing with sponsoring homecoming candidates (putting women on display to be unfavorably judged by men); intramurals or Greek week (athletic activity beyond normal everyday exercise); and living in the house (forced constant interaction with members).

When rush is a huge production with tons of rushees as it is at this school, I'm wagering that the women would rather do it this way than drag it out for a month. If they hated it too much, they could change the schedule. Panhellenic is the ones who decide on it, not the national orgs, the school administration or adult advisors/volunteers.

P.S. We are old. We do not remember how you can go on adrenaline for as long as you can at ages 18-21.
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Old 09-29-2012, 06:27 PM
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I'm sure at some point someone has. I'm sure people have also compared hazing with sponsoring homecoming candidates (putting women on display to be unfavorably judged by men); intramurals or Greek week (athletic activity beyond normal everyday exercise); and living in the house (forced constant interaction with members).

When rush is a huge production with tons of rushees as it is at this school, I'm wagering that the women would rather do it this way than drag it out for a month. If they hated it too much, they could change the schedule. Panhellenic is the ones who decide on it, not the national orgs, the school administration or adult advisors/volunteers.

P.S. We are old. We do not remember how you can go on adrenaline for as long as you can at ages 18-21.
Having been through the almost month long recruitment process (albeit a long time ago), I would much rather have had this short-but-crazy schedule. When you're young, it's sort of fun, I imagine. The drawn out recruitment is tiring and not helpful for academics or anything else.
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Old 09-30-2012, 02:33 AM
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In the 20 years since I joined, UCLA lists have never been distributed at 4 am except for preference schedules, which would be distributed earlier if people got their lists in on time.

Usually UCLA lists are due at 7 a.m. Preference lists are the exception, and they were due 30 minutes ago.

UCLA's Total resets to Median Chapter Size rounded down to the closest 0 or 5 at the conclusion of bid matching. That means that going into recruitment 1/2 the chapters are at or above Total. It also means there is always some room for COB.

Median chapter size going into recruitment was 104.
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Old 09-30-2012, 05:05 PM
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Is there any kind of guarantee about receiving a bid as long as you maximize your options? One of my very good friends from high school is participating in UCLA's rush right now and I'm afraid to ask her about the details. She's very nervous about bid night.

I'm a member of a GLO at Ole Miss, so the rules/regulations/norms of other recruitment processes are a little bit confusing to me.
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Old 09-30-2012, 05:35 PM
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Only Tufts and maybe one other place "guarantee" you a bid. Others are all the same if they use RFM - as both Ole Miss and UCLA do. Your odds are more than very good if you maximize your options. There is always a chance, though small, that you won't get a bid but she should feel pretty secure that she woudld get one if she followed all the rules and got to pref.
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