A BIG TEN Recruitment Story

[DubaiSis]

To help out others:
2012:

1,720 women registered
890 received bids
252 women were not matched throughout the process
74 released for grades
196 participated in preference round and did not receive bids
504 withdrew themselves from recruitment
Nearly 52% of women registered joined chapters
Average chapter size is 156

These numbers do NOT help in alleviating fears. More than 10% of the girls who register make it all the way to preference and don't get a bid? That's horrendous. And 15% got cut through the week, not including drops or grades? Yikes! Hopefully with the addition of ASA and TPA, those numbers were helped a little, but the withdrawal number might also increase as a result (nothing wrong with them, but the lack of house is going to cause some detractors from the girls who only want the huge house, live in 3 years experience).

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

To help out others:
2012:


196 participated in preference round and did not receive bids

That is the number I find completely unacceptable. This is just so wrong.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

That is the number I find completely unacceptable. This is just so wrong.

It's not clear how many of those 196 SIP'ed, though, is it?

It's still a problem, but even down the block at U of I, there are a large number of women who SIP and go bidless.

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

To help out others:
2012:

Hopefully with the addition of ASA and TPA, those numbers were helped a little, but the withdrawal number might also increase as a result (nothing wrong with them, but the lack of house is going to cause some detractors from the girls who only want the huge house, live in 3 years experience).

And the problem is that the IU culture is ALL about the living in experience. This is the number one reason they give for not changing the way they do things. And yet they expect other groups to come on and not have housing. Hopefully ASA and TPA know something we don't because bringing on unhoused chapters on a campus that revolves around housing seems a huge risk.