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06-20-2023, 02:29 PM
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Living in house as new member
What schools have their students move into their fraternity/sorority houses as new members? I know the University of Washington does this, but what other schools do?
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06-20-2023, 04:59 PM
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DIdn't Indiana when they had bed rush?
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06-20-2023, 05:21 PM
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Titchou I believe so, however not positive. I am uncertain about other campuses. The whole housing issue is confusing to me. Then again I am easily confused lately. Just ask AZ Alpha-Xi.
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06-20-2023, 05:28 PM
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Several schools used to do rush quota based on House Capacity (bed rush). but what the OP is talking about are schools that have the New Members move into the house directly after bid day. U Wash is the only one that I have heard does that. (Their rush is before classes start, so a Freshman can live 4 full years in the house, and only spend rush week in the dorms.)
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06-20-2023, 07:06 PM
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When I was at MIT *mumble* years ago, if you joined a fraternity or independent living group (think coed local fraternities, though one is all-female and one is all-male), you moved into the house as soon as you signed. Only one sorority had a house (out of 6 - 4 NPCs, 1 NPHC, 1 local) and the house wasn't big enough for all the sisters, never mind NMs.
These days, freshmen can rush and pledge GLOs, but all freshmen must live in the dorms.
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06-20-2023, 08:20 PM
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When Arkansas had bed rush, they had that. The bad thing was that PNMs didn't sign up for a dorm room for the next year (you had to be a sophomore to rush) because they figured they would be moving into a sorority house in the fall. If they were dropped from rush, they had to go stand in a verrrry long line at Housing and try to get a room.
And that line was so long because often, over half the rushees (due to bed rush) didn't get a bid.
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06-21-2023, 12:02 AM
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@carnation, so PNMs weren't advised to sign up for a dorm room just in case they didn't match?
At MIT, all freshmen were advised to go through dorm rush. Yes, we had dorm rush. All frosh got temp rooms within the dorm system. All dorms had events including tours and BBQs and the infamous gravity demonstration, because every dorm (and often every floor/entry within a dorm) had its own unique character. It was highly suggested that frosh should go through dorm rush. Women interested in sororities were pretty much guaranteed to spend at least one year in the dorms, because only one sorority chapter had a house when I rushed. People interested in fraternities and/or ILGs moved in as soon as they signed, but what if they didn't get a bid to a group they liked, or what if they didn't get a bid at all - best to hedge your bets by going through dorm rush and rank-ordering the dorms so you didn't end up scrambling for a spot in the worst dorm on campus.
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06-21-2023, 08:56 AM
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@carnation, so PNMs weren't advised to sign up for a dorm room just in case they didn't match?
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You couldn't sign up for a dorm room if you were rushing; Housing felt like you would be taking the place of a freshman who really needed the room when you might not. When I look back, it really makes me angry. Here was that line of girls who had been cut going halfway down the block on the most public street on campus. It got longer every day because some groups would keep their parties big just for eye candy.
Then if they got a dorm room, it was in the worst and most far away dorms, whereas they would've gotten the best dorms if they'd signed up when everyone else did.
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06-27-2023, 04:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Titchou
DIdn't Indiana when they had bed rush?
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No, they did not because recruitment is in January and most people were in dorm leases. Chapters that participated in informal in the fall did encourage new members to move in immediately or in January.
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