Quote:
Originally Posted by hiro11
4. Consider making the Greek system bigger at IU. I know there are many factors here, but having only 50-60% (from what I've heard) of women get a bid seems pretty tight. Maybe offer "social membership" or something similar?
|
Congratulations on your daughter making it through the process! I know it is a long grueling process and I do agree with you that the process could be made easier. The transportation has always been an issue, some things never change. When I went through recruitment, I had my car there and I crammed as many girls as I could into the car between parties with the heat blasting and definitely offered rides to PNMs going my way.
The reason for the delay between preference and bid day is the MLK observance. I have often wondered if chapters could have preference earlier in the day maybe 9 or 10 a.m. and then having bid night later that evening. With everything being computerized, it might be feasible to explore.
Your last point is one that I wanted to specifically address. I do believe around 2000 women registered for recruitment. Not all of them make the grades to continue. Then you have the women who are dropped completely from recruitment which is a very small number each year. Add to that the women who CHOOSE to drop out, that's why the placement rate looks like it's 50-60%. In reality typically between 1200 and 1100 women are eligible for preference. Then a few of those don't match because they listed only one chapter or drop before attending parties or right after parties. Once you take all of that into consideration, the placement rate is much higher. I don't believe that you should count women who voluntarily drop into the overall placement rate, as they chose to not continue with the process.
I hope your daughter is on cloud 9 tomorrow night! :-)
I read a recent post about "cross cut". That is a myth someone devised to ease the sting of a PNM being too low on both chapter lists to match. Now that IU is utilizing all of the features of RFM, a PNM will be matched with one of her two choices if she lists both. If she has only one chapter at pref and lists that chapter, she will match. If she has two chapters, but lists only one, she is decreasing her odds to match. She may not be high enough on her preferred chapter's list to be matched with them before they close.
Good luck to all of the PNMs tomorrow night!
Hybrid Mode
