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08-05-2012, 09:55 PM
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Maybe a school with a bed rush, like Indiana.
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08-05-2012, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by carnation
Maybe a school with a bed rush, like Indiana.
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That's exactly what I was going to guess since placement rate is about 50% depending on how you figure it and if you figure in the women who attend open houses but don't have the grades to return in January.
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08-06-2012, 05:20 PM
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Maybe a school with a bed rush, like Indiana.
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Just to make sure I understand, Bed Rush is basically "Alpha Sigma Alpha expects to have 15 open beds in the house in August and Delta Gamma expects to have 30 open beds in the house in August. Therefore the number of pledges that Delta Gamma can take is higher than the number that Alpha Sigma Alpha can take and those pledge numbers are (more or less) calculated from the number of open beds."
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08-09-2012, 02:05 AM
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Maybe a school with a bed rush, like Indiana.
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Sorry to be an ignoramous, but what is a "bed rush"? I've never heard this term before.
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08-09-2012, 09:44 AM
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Sorry to be an ignoramous, but what is a "bed rush"? I've never heard this term before.
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Each chapter determines its own "quota" based on the number of available beds in their house. This number is not calculated with any regard to the number of PNMs going through recruitment. So, if a sorority has 30 seniors graduate, they have 30 open spots. The physical houses at IU vary in size greatly, so the size of the chapters do also. Tri-delta might have 25 spots while ADPi might have 80. In any case, there tend to be WAY more PNMs vying for spots then there are spots available.
In a "normal" system, if there are 800 PNMs attending preference parties, and 19 chapters, each chapter will try to take a quota of 42. If there isn't space to live in the house, live somewhere else. At IU, if there are 800 PNMs attending pref and the available bed spots total to 450, 350 PNMs are just out of luck. This creates a lot of resentment among those PNMs who are left out after completing the process.
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08-09-2012, 10:11 AM
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Each chapter determines its own "quota" based on the number of available beds in their house. This number is not calculated with any regard to the number of PNMs going through recruitment. So, if a sorority has 30 seniors graduate, they have 30 open spots. The physical houses at IU vary in size greatly, so the size of the chapters do also. Tri-delta might have 25 spots while ADPi might have 80. In any case, there tend to be WAY more PNMs vying for spots then there are spots available.
In a "normal" system, if there are 800 PNMs attending preference parties, and 19 chapters, each chapter will try to take a quota of 42. If there isn't space to live in the house, live somewhere else. At IU, if there are 800 PNMs attending pref and the available bed spots total to 450, 350 PNMs are just out of luck. This creates a lot of resentment among those PNMs who are left out after completing the process.
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Ouch. So theoretically, a chapter could have all of its seniors decide they want to stay for a 5th year and a second degree and end up with a quota of zero?
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08-09-2012, 04:24 PM
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Ouch. So theoretically, a chapter could have all of its seniors decide they want to stay for a 5th year and a second degree and end up with a quota of zero?
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I don't believe many if any of the NPC chapters at Indiana would allow a 5th year senior to live in. Even in my chapter when the house wasn't full, we still didn't have 5th year seniors live in. They were alumnae and that's that.
But as always, IndianaSigKap brings up a great compromise. If you increase your quota by just 5 you have virtually the same chapter size (and only have to allow for a few live-outs), but the system as a whole can accommodate WAY more girls. And that's a way for some chapters who do want to increase their size but don't want to completely throw out tradition to add 5 or 10 girls and not stick out as having done so.
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08-09-2012, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
I don't believe many if any of the NPC chapters at Indiana would allow a 5th year senior to live in. Even in my chapter when the house wasn't full, we still didn't have 5th year seniors live in. They were alumnae and that's that.
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Wait, what? Your fifth-year seniors are no longer considered collegians? I can say with certainty that is not the case for all groups.
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