NPC Rush - Can something be done to reduce/eradicate the number of "bidless" rushees?

[FSUZeta]

a lot of campuses have large #'s of pnms going thru recruitment,so remembering a pnm who is not invited back, unless you personally rushed them one evening, is low. you have not made any promises to the pnm, she has had as fair a chance as anyone else and the chips fell the way they did. i have felt bad for pnms whom i met and felt would not be asked to join any group.

in that same vein, the pnm should not feel guilty if she receives an invitation to a party and declines the invitation. she needs to find the group that best fits her needs and wants.

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

a lot of campuses have large #'s of pnms going thru recruitment,so remembering a pnm who is not invited back, unless you personally rushed them one evening, is low. you have not made any promises to the pnm, she has had as fair a chance as anyone else and the chips fell the way they did. i have felt bad for pnms whom i met and felt would not be asked to join any group.

in that same vein, the pnm should not feel guilty if she receives an invitation to a party and declines the invitation. she needs to find the group that best fits her needs and wants.

At my school we usually have between 8-45 girls rushing and at most 2-3 of them don't get bids. It's a rarity by us to go bidless which is why I tend to feel bad.

[adpiucf]

I think that everyone puts their best foot forward at recruitment. If all play fair, there should be no regrets. Recruitment counselors counsel, sorority women are gracious hostesses and PNMs go in with good intentions. Some women are not right for certain chapters, and others refuse to make the effort with the chapters that have shown interest in them. Still other women are just not a good fit for the Greek System.

Yes, there are cases of great ladies being cross-cut, shut out of chapters because of their perceived legacy preferences, etc., but I think overall that everyone does make an effort to fill the new member classes with the women who are right for their chapters.

As has been said in past threads, if we match every single woman with her top choice minus the chapter's preferences being considered, where is the mutual selection? Just because you have been asked back to a second job interview doesn't mean that the hiring manager should feel guilty for giving an offer to another candidate. Everyone has a shot.

I think one thing that has been working on some campuses is giving PNMs a better idea of where they stand earlier in the process-- when the chapters with historically higher returns have to cut a larger percentage of women earlier on.

[33girl]

Even in a smaller system - or maybe I should say especially in a smaller system - there are times when the woman isn't a good fit for any of the sororities or vice versa. It would be worse to give a "pity bid" to someone you didn't really want, or for them to feel miserable in a sorority they didn't really want.

[ASUADPi]

Question about IU- Is the situation with FR still the same now (2006) as it was in 2003?

Here's another thing I kind of question, if the school does in fact have 1000 girls rushing (I'm saying this number after the grade cut, and it is probably more now being 3 years later) but roughly only 800 girls get bids, it seems to me that probably every house is at total, correct?

I don't know a lot about expansion, but it seems to me if you have 19 houses (is that the right number?) and there are 7 chapters not on campus, each house is at total (quite possibly above total), this would be the perfect time for expansion. Because obviously your greek life is getting more girls who want to participate than you can accomodate. Plus, if all the houses are at total by the end of FR, forget COR.

Someone who knows more about expansion or IU, because I don't get it.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

My guess with IU is that the problem is more a housing issue than one of numbers. How would a chapter do at IU without a house?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

My guess with IU is that the problem is more a housing issue than one of numbers. How would a chapter do at IU without a house?

Crappy.