Harder for older students to join?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DGTess

Before I shut up and color, as many seem to want me to do, let me say that I don't believe one group is better than another. I believe one group one any one campus may be the best for each individual, and that an individual should be given the time to get to know that, and to choose.

I'm not willing to let others make those choices for me without my voice being heard, but apparently that's not appropriate in these forums. Here it seems to be go along with the group. Sorry, that's not for me.

I'm certainly not trying to stifle your opinion. I was trying to give what I thought was the logic behind the ideas of quota and campus total.

Fraternities, for the most part, don't seem to use a similar system, and as I said, something I wonder if their way is better.

But I think it's true that the NPC has decided that the interests of all groups are best protected by regulating the number of new members that groups can take in and I think that in terms of what system will produce a great number of healthy groups, and therefore the best Greek experience for the most women, I think they might be right.

I was an undergraduate member at a big school with more than 1000 girls rushing each year and 18 groups, so it's harder for me to accept the idea that there's one best group for each girl, other than the group she ends up with when rush is over. At a smaller campus with deferred rush, I'm sure things are different and the groups may have distinctly different personalities and character.

Even with the "false" constraints of quota and total, I think the regulated system probably "works" better overall than groups having to set their own limits bases on when the experience of being a member seems to decline because the group is way too big.

But it's perfectly fine that you disagree.

I'm not sure what you mean by having your choices made for you, though. Even in the quota and total system, girls decide whether they want to join the group that wants them and they get to rank groups. It's just that their choices get narrowed down when groups decide that they don't want to ask them back.