Indiana University Recruitment 2018

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

How can IU Panhellenic allow groups to refuse to take quota additions?

The same way groups could be allowed to only take enough to fill the house, silly

But in all seriousness, if groups choose not to take QAs - or even quota - that is their prerogative. (With the ok from their HQ, of course) NPC/a college Panhellenic can't override its individual organizations' decisions regarding member selection. (Unless Tufts)

I honestly wish IU would call it "minimum class" or something for the moment, because calling it quota makes it seem like it works like garden variety quota/total, and it doesn't yet. It won't until there's a set campus total.

[celebcj]

i'm just confused as to how legacies can be cut going into pref round?

[ivyrose2]

re: cutting legacies before preference round
Many national organization rules require that legacies are put on the chapter's first bid list if they are invited to preference. So, legacies can be cut before preference round because a chapter does not want to put them on that 1st list (they already have enough girls they want on the first list.)

[PNMmom18]

Just talked to my daughter. She lost her legacy house with todays cuts. The two houses she visited she still didn't feel the "connection" and considered dropping. She did go ahead and rank so I am not sure how it will pan out for her. My older daughter is heartbroken she was cut from her legacy at the very end. Today has been the hardest emotionally.

[BBH]

Originally Posted by PNMmom18

Just talked to my daughter. She lost her legacy house with todays cuts. The two houses she visited she still didn't feel the "connection" and considered dropping. She did go ahead and rank so I am not sure how it will pan out for her. My older daughter is heartbroken she was cut from her legacy at the very end. Today has been the hardest emotionally.

Sorry to hear that PNMom18, hopefully it works out for her. Glad to hear she didn't make a snap decision and drop like so many others have done. I echo the feeling of sticking with it and seeing how it plays out. Even at this point, girls have still only met a small fraction of each chapter, you never know what might happen if given the opportunity to get to know them all.

[GreekOne]

Sorry to hear that PNMmom18! I know that we were disappointed when my D was dropped from her legacy chapter. It is a hard thing. But, hopefully, she will find a fit in one of the two that she attended. If she accepts the bid and continues, she can always drop before initiation if it really does not feel right. I do respect the girls that continue despite being disappointed. It reflects a stronger character than those who drop out after they get dropped by that one top house that they see themselves in. These are opportunities for growth. Not always easy but beneficial in the long run. Good luck!

[PNMmom18]

Thank you GreekOne, it's hard as a mom when I don't have the answers.

[IndianaSigKap]

I agree whole heartedly with GreekOne. I know many women who stuck it out and ended up finding their "people" in the chapter after recruitment. By luck of the draw, they didn't get paired up with similar personalities during recruitment and it took some time just hanging out at the house to make those connections.

[PNMmom18]

Thank you everyone! I am sure it will work out no matter the outcome.

[BBH]

Finally talked to my daughter tonight. She loved her legacy chapter and talked to both the Rush Chair and a girl from one of her classes this past fall. Her second party she really liked as well. So overall she had a good day.

Her roommate who had a rough time with the 9 party cuts, really came around to her legacy chapter and once other options were taken away, she really started to connect with her legacy chapter.

Another of my D's friend lost her legacy chapter with the pref round cuts so she was upset as it was her favorite, but she was continuing on with the ones she did get back.

Based on my wife's sororities bylaws we believe we know what should happen Tuesday but until daughter has a bid in hand we aren't counting our chickens before they hatch. I'm so ready for this all to be over.

[phoenix16]

We didn't decline QAs last year, we just made quota and that's it. We personally would love to have more members, they just usually choose not to consider us. Additionally, IU is in a transition from the old bed quota system to the traditional quota/total system. It has been years of small baby steps in this direction. It was huge to have a minimum number of bids to extend! I foresee QAs becoming mandatory and moving to full quota/total over the next couple of years.

[PNMmom18]

What was quota set at this year?

[phoenix16]

I'm not privy to that information, but we were not told about a set amount of bids like in past years (50 in 2016, 55 in 2017). Because of this, I would imagine that it's being set based on the number of PNMs at pref round, but I don't know that number either.

[80sHoosier]

"When to cut a legacy" may be different from campus to campus and/or sorority to sorority. I know my older daughter who is in a different sorority from me and on a different campus says they must cut legacies after round 2 so that they aren't stringing them on. My sorority, which I was a member of at IU, cut my daughter after round 3, so she learned about it at the time she received her preference list. It made for a very difficult day!

[lyrespearls]

Both of my daughters were cut by my house right before pref at IU and both were heartbroken. I agree on the stringing them along part as it would have given them more time to move another house. Finding out an hour and a half before pref rounds start made for an emotional start to yesterday for sure. I wish we would change our policy as my house at IU tends to take a lot of girls from the same area which is of course their prerogative but frustrating nonetheless.