Supersize recruitment!!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by hoosieral

Bid day was the next day and it was also the first day of second semester! I guarantee all of us PNMS were not even thinking about our new classes, we just wanted to get our bids! Finally, after what seemed like the longest day in history, it was time. I really do not like how they gave out bids and I hope the system will change. We waited in our dorm rooms and our rho gamma would come in and either give us a bid… or not. There was one rho gamma for each dorm floor so it wasn’t like they had to run all around handing out bids, but since they weren’t all handed out at the same time, some girls would be screaming with joy while others had to wait in agony to find out their fate. Worse yet some girls would have no bid and be crying while girls around them were happily celebrating. I personally think the ones that didn’t get bids should have been notified earlier so they would have known not to expect anything.


Finally… my rho gamma came into my room…...........













“I’m sorry to tell you, I don’t have a bid for you today,” she said. I was in shock. Not even Hungary wanted me, I was thinking and England, they loved me, what happened?? In total around 800 girls didn’t get bids. Some were because they had dropped early in the process, some were grades and others like me, there was just no explanation for it. I will never know what Hungary and England were thinking, but to this day I wondered what would have happened if I had ranked them higher in the beginning. I didn’t give them a chance at first, which I really regret because I was buying into the idea of what everyone else wanted.



Indiana uses a unique bed quota system, which mean the pledge classes will only be as big as how many beds they have available. Most houses have a live-in requirement for sophomores and juniors and some for seniors too. Italy and Greece make seniors live in too so their pledge classes are always smaller than everyone else. Quota for all the other chapters is around 40. And while there are 20 sororities, over 1700 girls rush so it is very competitive.

You can stop beating yourself up over this. It wouldn't have made any difference. How you rank ONLY determines what parties you go to if you have more invitations than allowed for that day, ie. you got 16 invitations for 14 party round. The sororities never know what you ranked. It doesn't make a difference when matching occurs. You didn't do anything wrong. You were just one of the many unfortunate women who fall through the cracks at Indiana. Anywhere else, you'd likely be in a sorority. It's a shame.