Supersize recruitment!!

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by Blue Skies

I think that the situation with sorority recruitment at Indiana is really sad. From what I can figure, of the girls who start recruitment, only 17-40% or so receive a bid depending on what year you are talking about. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

I have no idea where you got 17% but that is way off. People putting incorrect statistics out there when the correct numbers on on the IUB Panhellenic website does not help at all. Here are last year's recruitment numbers from Panhellenic

2013
Number of women who registered for recruitment 1733
Number of women who participated in bid matching 1160
Number of women who matched 1025

So that's a 59.145% match rate overall. The next group of stats will show you where the women dropped, were released, etc.


Released or withdrew:
withdraw/no show for 21-party 104
grade release for less than 2.7 182
withdraw/no show for 14-party 67
withdraw/no show for 8-party 43
released after 8-party 11
withdraw after 3-party 162
released after 3-party (no bid) 135
Total number unmatched 704

The total number unmatched, as you see, includes grade releases and no shows (286 women of the original 1733).

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

I am sad, as a very proud alumna, that your daughter had no interest in Indiana. We have some high quality programs. Jacobs School of Music is considered the No. 1 music school in the country at a public university. The only music school considered on par with Jacobs is Julliard.

Tangent, but the last sentence is perhaps a bit of an overstatement. Without denying at all that IU's School of Music consistently ranks very highly, off of the top of my head, Eastman and New England Conservatory at a minimum would also be on a par with Jacobs and Julliard.

Otherwise, I've got nothing, other than I'm sorry things didn't work out for the OP and I agree it seems like there could be a better to real the news to those who don't get bids.

[cinder1965]

If you add all of the women who withdrew/no show that is 376....so that would tell me there were 376 women who chose not to continue through recruitment. I would guess it is mostly because they got houses they thought were "awkward".

Assuming the IU system stays in place and all chapters met quota, it would seem expansion is a no brainer. BUT, would these 376 bother with joining those chapters who would expand. Somehow I doubt it. But maybe I am just crabby tonight. Thoughts?

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

I have no idea where you got 17% but that is way off. People putting incorrect statistics out there when the correct numbers on on the IUB Panhellenic website does not help at all. Here are last year's recruitment numbers from Panhellenic

2013
Number of women who registered for recruitment 1733
Number of women who participated in bid matching 1160
Number of women who matched 1025

So that's a 59.145% match rate overall. The next group of stats will show you where the women dropped, were released, etc.


Released or withdrew:
withdraw/no show for 21-party 104
grade release for less than 2.7 182
withdraw/no show for 14-party 67
withdraw/no show for 8-party 43
released after 8-party 11
withdraw after 3-party 162
released after 3-party (no bid) 135
Total number unmatched 704

The total number unmatched, as you see, includes grade releases and no shows (286 women of the original 1733).

[Blue Skies]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

I have no idea where you got 17% but that is way off. People putting incorrect statistics out there when the correct numbers on on the IUB Panhellenic website does not help at all. Here are last year's recruitment numbers from Panhellenic

2013
Number of women who registered for recruitment 1733
Number of women who participated in bid matching 1160
Number of women who matched 1025

So that's a 59.145% match rate overall. The next group of stats will show you where the women dropped, were released, etc.


Released or withdrew:
withdraw/no show for 21-party 104
grade release for less than 2.7 182
withdraw/no show for 14-party 67
withdraw/no show for 8-party 43
released after 8-party 11
withdraw after 3-party 162
released after 3-party (no bid) 135
Total number unmatched 704

The total number unmatched, as you see, includes grade releases and no shows (286 women of the original 1733).

I still feel that a 59% match rate is nothing to be proud of. One also has to keep in mind that the 59% match rate you cite represents an *improvement* over prior years.

Also, I feel that in a bed rush, with a fixed number of bids to give out, the number of withdraws/no shows is deceptive.

With 1733 women initially registering, 182 did not meet the grade requirement to rush. That brings the number down to 1,551. Sororities gave out 1025 bids. I'm going to assume that is pretty close to the fixed number of bids they had to offer. That leaves approximately 526 women who never had a chance of getting a bid -- roughly one third of the women rushing.