UGA Quota Just Raised!!

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

A lot of the growth in the SEC, particularly at Bama, is resulting from student body growth, rather than growth in the percentage of the student body that is interested. I'm sure that the Panhellenics are in communication with the university leadership about the planned trajectory in student body size.

(from their website information) The increase in the number of students enrolling at Bama is up 47% since 2002, while the increase in students signing up for NPC recruitment appears to be greater than 100% in that same time frame?

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by HQWest

(from their website information) The increase in the number of students enrolling at Bama is up 47% since 2002, while the increase in students signing up for NPC recruitment appears to be greater than 100% in that same time frame?

Off the cuff I would guess that a lot of the increase in NPC recruitment numbers is due to the increase in OOS student enrollment -- the swelling numbers of OOS new members, even among chapters that are in-state strongholds, seems to suggest this. I think the Greek system at Alabama probably serves as a draw to some OOS students (in addition to reasonable tuition, admission requirements, and scholarship incentives).

In-state enrollment does not seem to be increasing (according to the following article, we have hit a plateau in numbers of high school graduates -- okay, I know y'all just laughed ). I know enrollment does not equal interest, so I don't know how the stats compare over the years in regard to in-state vs OOS increases in recruitment percentages (perhaps someone out there has these numbers).

Article I mentioned (from last year):

The number of freshmen from Alabama decreased by 299 students, as 2,848 in-state students enrolled at UA this fall, the report said. The number of freshmen from Georgia also decreased by 117, the largest decrease among states other than Alabama.
The Fall 2011 semester saw the number of freshman students from New York more than triple, as 59 students enrolled. Sixty more freshman students from Texas enrolled, as well as 43 more students from Maryland and 41 more students from New York, the report said.
[…]
“UA recruits in Alabama, the Southeast and across the country,” said Mary Spiegel, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions. “With the number of high school graduates in the state of Alabama at a plateau, there has been a rise in the number of out-of-state students. We share with [both the out-of-state students] and in-state students information about the University and the quality education that they can receive.”
http://cw.ua.edu/2011/10/13/out-of-s...r-recruitment/