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I'll bite. I'm an alumni, although I've only been out of school for a short time so I doubt much has changed at my chapter. DTD has no national rules on how to run rush (that I know of) and our chapter had our own system. Every night of rush required a different percentage of a "yes" vote to be invited back, starting at 50% and up to 85% to get a bid. Legacies were given a bid and allowed to pledge. However, after three and six weeks of pledging, discussions took place where pledges were voted on again...they needed a much higher amount to get past these discussions, I don't remember what it was though. Also, at any point in time a pledge class could vote out a member of their class by a simple majority vote.
The process itself was fairly disorganized...rushees photos would be on a big-screen TV and the rush chair would announce their name, school year, major and dorm, and then we were allowed to discuss the rushee until everybody had their mind made up. Most rushees were pretty unanimous (either nobody wanted them or everybody wanted them), but certain rushees could take forever to talk about (the record was close to an hour). Needless to say these discussions took forever and may have veered towards Animal House territory the later the night went on.
I wish we had been a little more selective at the initial stage. It was still very tough to get a bid from our chapter, and I'd say only about 25% of our rushees would get bids. However, some of our competitor's chapters only required three or so "no votes" to keep a rushee from getting a bid. At 85%, the theory was that the less strong pledges could always be kicked out at three and six weeks. However, more than once a controversial pledge that would not have been voted in with a more restrictive percentage caused havoc in the pledge class and was voted out after three weeks, but the damage they caused was already irreversible (either taking another favorite pledge with him when he was kicked out, causing a rift in the pledge class, etc).
The Greek system at my school was large, not SEC large, but still large. 20ish chapters ranging from 60-130 members.
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