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Originally Posted by IUgirl95
1,735 women registered
1,025 received bids
146 women not matched in process
182 women released for grades
135 participated in preference round and did not receive bids
376 withdrew themselves from recruitment
Nearly 64% of women registered joined chapters
here are the numbers which is why I was confused, so if 136 women participated in Preference and didn't get bids where does the 146 come into play? I was trying to figure out how many girls actually just get Dropped by every chapter as these horror stories online say.
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The 146 women who were not matched were women who sadly received no invitations at some point during the process. This can happen most often to women who rank based on "tiers" or reputation of chapters. They have a full first round and then my preference they have no chapters left. This is why when I give advice to IU PNMs, I encourage them to rank wisely. Do not rank the chapters who traditionally take the smallest pledge classes as all of your tops. Keep a chapter or two who traditionally take larger classes to better the odds.
The 376 who withdrew may have withdrawn at any time. Some choose not to come back early to continues the process even though they made grades. Some drop when they get invitations from chapters in which they are not interested. Some drop after pref and do not rank their pref chapters. Sadly, this is pretty common at IU.
The 135 who attend preference and do not get bids is where I get annoyed. With 22 chapters, if each chapter took 6 more girls all of those 135 would be placed. Six more women added to a pledge class of 38 would not kill anyone. Some chapters will take QAs, some refuse to do so. This is what gives IU such a bad rep recruitment wise. I can't feel sorry for the ones who drop, but these women I feel terribly for. I wish IU pr Panhellenic would fix this if nothing else.
I hope this helps.
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