University of Alabama Recruitment

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

I don't know where rumors like ^this originate -- but this is just not true.

Greekdee is correct -- I know the last two colonizations at Bama have been great opportunities for upperclassmen.

Can you supply us with those statistics? Number of upperclass women, by class, who went thru the process vis-a-vis the number who actually were offered bids?

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Can you supply us with those statistics? Number of upperclass women, by class, who went thru the process vis-a-vis the number who actually were offered bids?

Perhaps you can help with that -- do existing chapters pledge more juniors, for instance, than colonizing chapters?

I certainly didn't think so, but perhaps you can provide some stats from your own chapter's recolonization there. I'm willing to be educated.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

Perhaps you can help with that -- do existing chapters pledge more juniors, for instance, than colonizing chapters?

I certainly didn't think so, but perhaps you can provide some stats from your own chapter's recolonization there. I'm willing to be educated.

If I knew, I would have posted the information. But I'm not on the recruitment side these days. Since you had partial stats, it appeared that you might be privey to such information.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by Titchou

If I knew, I would have posted the information. But I'm not on the recruitment side these days. Since you had partial stats, it appeared that you might be privey to such information.

We could extrapolate a little from the numbers posted in the reports found here:
http://greekaffairs.ua.edu/resources.cfm

For the most recent colonization at Bama, for instance –

In Fall 2011, 221 girls were pledged in the colonization. In Spring 2011, 10 more NMs were added, for a total of 231.

In Fall, 2012, 92 girls were pledged, and the total membership at close of Fall 2012 is reported as 261.

So that leaves 62 girls who potentially graduated within those 3 semesters. These girls would have been seniors -- and maybe juniors on their way to an early graduation -- when they pledged during the colonization or sometime thereafter (check my math, just in case).

All chapters have some girls move, transfer, drop, etc, of course, but there are probably a lot of graduating upper-upperclassmen among those 62.