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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
Do these numbers sound weird to anyone else? Vandy is supposed to be a very competitive rush, so how do only 8 percent of girls go bidless? Even at my undergrad school, where rush was so not competitive, the dropout rate was higher (and in both cases it was spring rush). If nothing else, since you register in the fall, I would think more girls would be cut for first semester grades than that.
edited to add: The article says 25 girls went bidless after pref, which means only 15 girls were cut from rush before pref.
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They don't sound weird to me. I don't equate competitive rush with the number of girls who go bidless. I think of the return rates for top chapters when I think of competitiveness, but that's just me. Even schools with highly competitive rushes have a chapter or 2 that are under total and/or quota. To me it is the campus culture - when so many PNMs want the same top chapters, and those chapters fight for the same top PNMs. That's just how I think of it though. I guess an example I would think of would be Oklahoma, which I think has a very competitive rush. The return rates for the "Top 5" are nearly 100%, and to get a bid to those chapters you must have recs and connections, but there are 4 other houses that consistently take quota and then 2 which typically are under quota and total. Very few women go bidless because even though they might not get "Top 5" they still accept bids to the other chapters. Like I said, that's just my perception.
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