University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Recruitment

[FSUZeta]

clara's mom:

someone-was it 33girl?- gave some sage advice last year to a pnm who was not invited back to her favorite sorority. she said(and i paraphrase),"you have "x" sororities left. You should try to find a new favorite."

[DeltaBetaBaby]

First of all, thank you so much for the updates! I am super addicted! Considering it's the biggest rush in the nation, we don't get nearly enough UIUC threads.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

clara's mom:

someone-was it 33girl?- gave some sage advice last year to a pnm who was not invited back to her favorite sorority. she said(and i paraphrase),"you have "x" sororities left. You should try to find a new favorite."

My rush was the year of the giant computer f**k-up that meant we got the WRONG invitations and then had them revoked. I had a full schedule for second invitational, but it was not the full schedule I had been expecting. My rho chi told me "Ignore everything that has happened up until this point. These are the five chapters on campus. Is there one you could love by bid day?"

(and of course, there was...actually, there were five I could have loved)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

My rush was the year of the giant computer f**k-up that meant we got the WRONG invitations and then had them revoked. I had a full schedule for second invitational, but it was not the full schedule I had been expecting. My rho chi told me "Ignore everything that has happened up until this point. These are the five chapters on campus. Is there one you could love by bid day?"

(and of course, there was...actually, there were five I could have loved)

yeah, that was what I said. LOL.

[DG Illinois]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

First of all, thank you so much for the updates! I am super addicted! Considering it's the biggest rush in the nation, we don't get nearly enough UIUC threads.

Thanks! My relationship with this pnm is much closer than I led on and I have updates from her best friend and from her roommate as well, so I have 3 pnms I'm talking closely with. I wisely know that now would not be the time for a recruitment story, but I would love to actually write it when recruitment wraps up.



My rush was the year of the giant computer f**k-up that meant we got the WRONG invitations and then had them revoked. I had a full schedule for second invitational, but it was not the full schedule I had been expecting. My rho chi told me "Ignore everything that has happened up until this point. These are the five chapters on campus. Is there one you could love by bid day?"

I had no idea that happened...what a mess

(and of course, there was...actually, there were five I could have loved)

Love that there is a happy ending.
If you look above you can see my responses within the area I was quoting, or I should say trying to quote, somehow I missed the part where what I write is in a different color.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

First of all, thank you so much for the updates! I am super addicted! Considering it's the biggest rush in the nation, we don't get nearly enough UIUC threads.

I am curious, how is U of I considered the biggest rush in the nation? Penn State and IU have more NPC chapters than U of I and Alabama had more PNMs register for recruitment. Are the chapters at U of I large in number? Or are Greeks a high percentage of the student body?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

I am curious, how is U of I considered the biggest rush in the nation? Penn State and IU have more NPC chapters than U of I and Alabama had more PNMs register for recruitment. Are the chapters at U of I large in number? Or are Greeks a high percentage of the student body?

I was under the impression that U of I has the most women in NPC groups. Maybe Alabama has overtaken them since I was in school.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I was under the impression that U of I has the most women in NPC groups. Maybe Alabama has overtaken them since I was in school.

UIUC was definitely the largest when I was in school, too. Now, Alabama is certainly the largest. I believe UIUC would fall in at about #3 or 4.

This is just for fun, but if campus total meant anything (which we all know it really doesn't), the largest greek systems would be:

1. Alabama 268*17=4,556
2. Auburn 183*17=3,111
3. Missouri 220*14=3,080
4. Illinois 170*18=3,060
5. Georgia 170*17=2,890
6. Florida 161*16=2,576
7. Oklahoma 211*11=2,321
8. Arizona 200*11=2,200
9. Ole Miss 232*9=2,088

As well as Indiana, which would fall in there somewhere, but with 20 chapters and no established total, who knows where.

Of course since chapters may have way over total, or under total, this is not scientific at all.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

UIUC was definitely the largest when I was in school, too. Now, Alabama is certainly the largest. I believe UIUC would fall in at about #3 or 4.

This is just for fun, but if campus total meant anything (which we all know it really doesn't), the largest greek systems would be:

1. Alabama 268*17=4,556
2. Auburn 183*17=3,111
3. Missouri 220*14=3,080
4. Illinois 170*18=3,060
5. Georgia 170*17=2,890
6. Florida 161*16=2,576
7. Oklahoma 211*11=2,321
8. Arizona 200*11=2,200
9. Ole Miss 232*9=2,088

As well as Indiana, which would fall in there somewhere, but with 20 chapters and no established total, who knows where.

Of course since chapters may have way over total, or under total, this is not scientific at all.

So much interesting information in the last few posts! I knew that Penn State didn't have houses for sororities, do the fraternities have houses?

As far as Indiana goes, there are 19 chapters currently and most have close to 120 members (appox. 2280). There is no total, which is part of the whole Indiana situation. While there is no official total, of the 19 chapters, I believe that only 7 of them allow live outs. The largest of the chapter houses hold 110-120 women. Therefore if a chapter holds 120 and doesn't allow live outs, they have a self imposed cap of 120. As much as I love Indiana, I think all of the chapters need to allow a certain number of live outs. It would keep many of the chapters from losing their senior leadership just because they are tired of communal living.

I am not sure if Theta Phi Alpha will take that many (120) since they are part of the university's new Greek plan. They will colonize in September and then participate in the open house round in December and then recruit again after formal is over in January. From talking to a former student who is on campus in and Greek leadership, Indiana would eventually like to expand to all 26 NPC chapters. This is many years down the road, but it's a long term goal.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

So much interesting information in the last few posts! I knew that Penn State didn't have houses for sororities, do the fraternities have houses?

Yes, they have big, beautiful, gorgeous houses that make me drool just thinking about them. (Although I'm sure there's some shacks that I missed when I was there.) I think Penn State might have the largest number of fraternities of any system, but obviously they are not all the same size.