again..senior rush!?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by APhiAnna

This year, for the first time, they had separate upperclassman quotas, so essentially they had a quota for freshmen and then an upperclassman quota (and to be fair I don't know if there was a separate one for sophomores and juniors, or just one overall).

Typically, upperclassman quota includes sophs, juniors, and seniors. Basically those who are not freshmen. Generally, it's usually no more than 5% or so of quota.

Also important to note here (not for you APhiAnna, but to PNMs): just because there's an upperclassman quota at a school, doesn't mean that every soph, junior, or senior girl is going to get a bid. It does make things a little better because chapters can take on a few upperclassmen without decreasing the number of freshmen they can pledge.

[APhiAnna]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Typically, upperclassman quota includes sophs, juniors, and seniors. Basically those who are not freshmen. Generally, it's usually no more than 5% or so of quota.

That's the way it works at some schools, but that is not how it was done at UCLA. They took the number of PNMs that were sophomores, juniors and seniors and devised a separate quota for them. Meaning, if there were 10 chapters, 200 freshmen and 100 upperclassmen quota would be 20 freshmen and 10 upperclassmen. So, ON PAPER, juniors had just as much of a chance to receive a bid as did freshmen. Now I can't comment on if sophomores were favored more than juniors who were favored more than seniors, but all pledge classes (to my knowledge) had juniors.