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Originally Posted by LOVEinZTA
2) About an excessive number of transfers from one school, case and point: UT Arlington. UTA is a branch/satellite/whatever you want to call it campus of UT. A couple years back the number of freshman applicants to UT rose dramatically which also occurred about the time Texas enacted the "Top 10% Law" which guaranteed a student admission to a public university of their choice in the state if he or she graduated in the top 10% of his or her class. This led to UT Austin exploding in size and not being able to handle the number of incoming freshman. They enacted the "Coordinated Admissions Program" or CAP which was offered if you weren't offered fall or summer admission to UT and meant that if you went to one of the UT branch school for a year (Arlington, El Paso, San Antonio, etc.), took certain classes, and maintained a certain GPA you would be guaranteed admission to UT Austin for your sophomore year. UTA of course has its own separate greek system. Girls in CAP would go through recruitment at UTA with the chapters knowing full well they were CAP students, take a bid to a chapter, stay a year, and then transfer to UT Austin. Of those 11 other girls I transferred in with, 7 of them were from the UTA Zeta chapter, and the pledge classes at UTA aren't that big. It really wasn't good for their chapter. As such, this past fall, the chapter at UTA didn't extend bids to nearly as many CAP students (only 1 as far as I know of is transferring in). Okay, back to story time.
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To me, that sounds like the equivalent of having a chapter at a community college/2-year school. Which, and only speaking for SGRho, we don't have for reasons along what you described above.
i would think that since CAP is a transitional kind of program that they wouldnt be allowed to have a greek life. It's a strain on each GLO because of the high turnover. and if the majority of students go to one of the CAP schools with the intention of "oh, i'll just transfer to UT anyway," then its WAY better to have students just wait until they transfer their sophomore year.
then again, campus culture is key, and it seems like at UT, it's either freshman or bust because of the competitive nature. perhaps this is what adpiucf was alluding to in changing chapter culture - that the house becomes a revolving door of sorts?
i'm gonna switch lanes for a second (and feel free to tell me when to get back in mine), but i would think if the university's structure is changing, then NPC rush needs to reflect that. i know, old habits die hard, but i'd hate to know that a transferring PNMs GLO membership is good at school A but then when they get to school B it's a no-go.
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