Quota additions for college....hmmm, there's an interesting idea.
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Totally agree with the rest of your post.
Not to knock the SEC or the South in general. I know it's not fair to paint everyone with the same brush, and I'm sure we sometimes hear the more extreme examples on here, but I think the "I HAVE to go to Camp Watamazuki, go to East Mississippi Prepatory High School, get 18,000 recs, and attend college sorority events and alumnae teas from the age of three so I can be a Zeta Zeta Zeta or I will be a social disgrace to my family and my entire community and be forced to live in isolation, friendless and without a job or spouse when I return home" would strike most people in the Northwest as complete and total looney tune bat-s*** crazy talk.
That doesn't describe WSU. It is competitive in the way most flagship state schools in most places are competitive. It isn't a breeze - you can't have a 2.6, wear an old sweatshirt and ripped jeans, put your hair up in a messy bun, decide you are only interested in 2 houses or you're done, and expect a good outcome. As I mentioned in the previous post - I don't think any of us suggested that (we talked more about Cougar cheese - didn't we?). A girl needs to have decent grades, keep an open mind, present herself well, and get recs if she can.
I'm guessing the placement rate is 90% and that of the 10% who don't get placed - 7% probably drops out. That's a complete guess and maybe it just reflects daughter's experience, but again, she didn't know anyone (and her last set of friends went through in 2010) that got cut entirely. She knew 2 who dropped (not including her which made 3). The 2 who dropped got placed through COB. Everyone else got a bid somewhere.
Now I will say, the "certain chapter being naughty and not being able to recruit" thing did happen and it won't be recruiting this year. Not sure how or if that will affect things.
Their numbers are going up for the same reason most school's numbers are going up in recruitment (I imagine)- more freshman coming in...They will probably have a large increase this year because UW, in an extremely controversial move, chose to lower the number of Washington freshman they would take in favor of OOS students, so WSU picked up a lot of that slack with the largest freshman class they've seen in quite a while.
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